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December 19, 2023

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  • Why the hold up on paid sick days? It’s about power.

    Amid a raging pandemic, how do Canadian workers still not have paid sick days as a basic right of employment? It’s about power.  Real paid…

    May 3, 2021
  • COVID-19 and workers: A year later, support is urgently needed

    Every worker needs to know that they can stay home if sick and not see a gap in their wages.

    May 1, 2021
  • What’s below the surface

    In praise of unseen networks.

    May 1, 2021
  • Canada and the COVID-19 waiver

    An unethical position that needs to change.

    May 1, 2021
  • google building

    Alphabet workers go wall-to-wall

    ON JANUARY 4, 2021, workers at Alphabet, the parent company of tech giant Google, announced through an op-ed in the New York Times that they…

    May 1, 2021
  • farmer walking through farm

    The farmers’ protests and the looting of India

    About the authorAsad Ismi

    May 1, 2021
  • The Oil Blotter: Postmedia & Big Oil’s symbiosis

    With some notable exceptions, like the Globe and Mail’s feature on the enormous cost of remediating Alberta’s abandoned oil wells, Canada’s corporate press hasn’t paid…

    May 1, 2021
  • The Monitor, May/June 2021

    The Future of Organizing Download 2.89 MB “It is certainly driven by young people,” Martin O’Hanlon, the president of CWA Canada told Kevin Philipupillai for…

    May 1, 2021
  • “Big five” Canadian banks provide big money to fossil fuel industry

    Instead of playing a crucial role to help Canada achieve its Paris Agreement targets, Canada’s “Big Five” banks are actually hindering Canada’s progress on climate…

    April 29, 2021
  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s big banks hindering progress on climate change

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Despite Canada’s climate change commitments, the country’s “big six” banks continue to finance and support expansion of fossil…

    April 29, 2021
  • Bank in Ottawa, mirrors with parliament in reflection
    Corporate Mapping Project

    Fossilized Finance

    How Canada’s banks enable oil and gas production Download 1.38 MB 56 pages Despite Canada’s climate change commitments, the country’s “big five” banks continue to…

    April 29, 2021
  • Social impact bonds are a wolf in sheep’s clothing

    Earlier this year, Vancouver city council considered a motion encouraging the city to look into the issue of “social impact bonds” (and more broadly “social…

    April 27, 2021
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