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04/02/21
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International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group

This is a further entrenchment of Harper's widely opposed Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51) of 2015. A short time after that law was passed, an RCMP report identified environmentalists as "terrorists." First Nations activism, of course, has also been identified as terrorist. Trudeau, elected a few months after the law was enacted, had promised to amend it to "increase oversight," but he never seems to have gotten around to that (another campaign-trail lie).

02/02/21
Author: 
Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg

Her message to global business magnates and their political collaborators, assembled in the Davos World Economic Forum, on January 25, 2021.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2622651194526588&t=207

25/01/21
Author: 
Ben Bengtson
Backpack Buddies employee Michelle Vanderzon packs a bag full of food for the weekend for a food-insecure child somewhere in B.C at the organization’s North Vancouver facility. Since the pandemic started last year, childhood poverty and food insecurity has increased for many throughout the province, according to the non-profit.Mavreen David

Jan 23, 2021

Backpack Buddies organization helps fill ‘weekend hunger gap’ throughout Lower Mainland and beyond

Childhood poverty and food insecurity remains an issue in British Columbia and has only been exacerbated by the pandemic, according to a Metro Vancouver non-profit that works to tackle child hunger in the province.

19/01/21
Author: 
Brendan O'Connor
A window at the US Capitol building broken by supporters of US President Donald Trump. Photograph: Dmitry Kirsanov/TASS
Mon 18 Jan 2021 12.18 GMT
 

That siege was just one battle in a decades-long assault on democracy, funded by billionaire donors and corporate interests

19/01/21
Author: 
Alphabet Workers Union
Alphabet Workers Union logo

January 13, 2021  

On January 4th, workers at Google and other Alphabet companies announced the creation of the Alphabet Workers Union with support from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) – the first of its kind in the company’s history. It will be the first union open to all employees and contractors at any Alphabet company, with dues-paying members, an elected board of directors, and paid organizing staff.

19/01/21
Author: 
Naveena Sadasivam
Image - pipeline protest - Grist / Kryssia Campos / spooh / Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Earlier this week, with national attention focused on accountability for the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building in Washington, D.C., Ohio quietly became the 13th state since 2017 to legislate harsher penalties for trespassing on or otherwise interfering with energy and industrial infrastructure — a move that activists and civil liberties groups say is a transparent attempt to criminalize nonviolent protest.

19/01/21
Author: 
Joel Lexchin
An employee inspects tablets as they move along the production line of a pharmaceutical plant. (photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

16 January 21

The vast majority of Canadians want a national pharmacare program, but right-wing think tanks and corporate lobbyists are battling to obstruct it. It’s time to stand up to their bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need.

 

19/01/21
Author: 
Abdul Malik
Hockey Game - Photo via Camera Eye Photography.

JANUARY 12, 2021

The sweatshop conditions of minor hockey are about to intensify, and if our labour unions won’t help them, who will?

As the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships recently drew to a close in Edmonton, many of Team Canada’s players are looking ahead to opportunities in the professional junior leagues. Labour unions should be doing the same.

19/01/21
Author: 
Anti*Capitalist Resistance
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January 19, 2021

Kevin Courtney, joint General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), summed it up when he said, the best response to the Tory pandemic disaster is to join a union and join the Zero Covid campaign.

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