Protest - Revolt

24/05/20
Author: 
Amnesty International Canada    
Amnesty International Canada

RESPECT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
AT MANITOBA HYDRO'S KEEYASK DAM

13/05/20
Author: 
Morganne Campbell

May 10, 2020

Across Ontario, seven health-care workers have died from COVID-19 and more than 3,200 are sick.

Those sobering statistics has pushed the province’s largest union to lobby for one piece of equipment that may help those on the front lines.

“We’ve been calling on the government to use its emergency powers to order industry to produce the N95 mask and it was disappointing to learn General Motors in Oshawa will be making masks but not the N95 masks,” says Michael Hurley, president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.

13/05/20
Author: 
Tony Leah
Cavalcade arrives at the GM Oshawa plant. – photo by John MacDonald

May 10, 2020

On Saturday, May 9, 2020 a large cavalcade wended its way through the city of Oshawa, past the major city hospital (Lakeridge Health) and Hillsdale Terraces, a long-term care home where Covid-19 has infected 42 residents (of whom 14 died), and 13 staff members. The cavalcade of 65+ vehicles ended up at the sprawling General Motors Assembly Complex, now mostly empty since GM abandoned vehicle production last December.

Support Health Care Workers – Manufacture More PPE

08/05/20
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
Firefighters sprays water on a back fire while battling the spread of the Maria Fire as it moves quickly towards Santa Paula, California, on Nov. 1, 2019. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
May 05, 2020

"Where we are is bad enough. We can't let these levels grow. We need #ClimateAction!"

[Editor: See graphs and tweets with the original at link.]

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