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15/12/20
Author: 
CHEK News
Adrian Dix
December 15, 2020
 

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British Columbia’s minister of health says the provincial government’s long-promised temporary pandemic pay is on the way to eligible healthcare workers who haven’t received it.

During Monday’s COVID-19 update, Adrian Dix, the province’s health minister, apologized for the lengthy delay and assured workers they would be getting the money.

13/12/20
Author: 
Amrit Dhillon in Delhi and Hannah Ellis-Petersen
Protesting farmers listen to a speaker at the Delhi-Haryana state border in Singhu . Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images

Dec. 11, 2020

Digging in: on the frontlines as farmers lay siege to Delhi

hen the sacks were ripped opened, almonds poured out, more than 10,000kg of them. It was not the first donation that had been sent to the Indian farmers defiantly camped out along the periphery of Delhi. In previous days trucks had rolled up and disgorged sacks of rice, pulses, flour, vegetables, sugar, tea and biscuits.

13/12/20
Author: 
Hamilton Nolan
New York City drivers rally against Uber in 2015. SPENCER PLATT/ GETTY IMAGES

Dec. 10, 2020

The city’s first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys.

11/12/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Nov. 18 in Ottawa. "It really is Scrooge-like," Paul says of the CRA's CERB letters to Canadians. Paul photo / Facebook

December 10th 2020

Many Canadians have been left stunned or in tears after being told by the Canada Revenue Agency that they might need to pay back all the money they got from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).

11/12/20
Author: 
John Lancaster

Dec 09, 2020

Luiza Dos Anjos, 75, is a resident of Extendicare Halton Hills in Georgetown, Ont. In this photo, her family wheels her into a hospital to have her left leg partially amputated. It became infected while living in the care home. (Ivan Arsovski/CBC News)

09/12/20
Author: 
Naomi Klein
WRITING ABOUT “The Great Reset” is not easy. It has turned into a viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide, most of which is not really happening anyway, some of which actually should.
 
It’s extra confusing for me to unpick this particular knot because at the center of it all is a bastardization of a concept I know a little something about: the shock doctrine.
 
 
 
07/12/20
Author: 
Marty Hart-Landsberg

Posted on 

This is the first in a series of posts that aim to describe and evaluate the World War II mobilization experience in the United States in order to illuminate some of the economic and political challenges we can expect to face as we work for a Green New Deal.  

07/12/20
Author: 
Stephanie Smith, BCGEU President

John Horgan’s new majority government was sworn in last week, as a second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across B.C. [1]

With new outbreaks in long-term care announced almost daily, Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore is stepping into an important role as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors Services and Long Term Care.

07/12/20
Author: 
Ginger Group

"In the linked document related to Denmark the country's prime minister, elected in June 2019 is quoted as saying, "If we succeed, it will be because we hurried." Sounds like a great motto for the movement."

         -- Gene McGuckin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 3, 2020

Contact:
Hannah McKinnon, hannah@priceofoil.org

Danish announcement sends signal: climate leadership means end to fossil fuel expansion

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