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22/04/21
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Protesters outside Pfizer

Apr. 22, 2021

“Instead of creating new vaccine billionaires, we need to be vaccinating billions in developing countries.”

Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca—three of the world’s top coronavirus vaccine manufacturers—have paid out a combined $26 billion in dividends and stock buybacks to their shareholders over the past year, a sum that could fully fund the cost of inoculating Africa’s entire 1.3 billion-person population.

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22/04/21
Author: 
Liza Featherstone
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen attend a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, 2018. (Jason Kempin / Getty Images)

Apr. 21, 2021

22/04/21
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Grocery worker - Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.

 

Apr. 22, 2021

‘I do believe this will save lives.’ Labour leaders and analysts say more must be done.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the B.C. government says it would like paid sick days to be available to all workers, but it has so far avoided stepping in to fill the gap.

22/04/21
Author: 
Colin Kinniburgh
Building using hem - Grist / Amelia Bates

Mar 30, 2021

How cannabis can be part of an affordable housing future — not just one for eco-conscious elites.

Winter in Paris is notoriously clammy, and this winter was no exception. But Gregory Ferembach didn’t need to turn on his heat much. One reason? The walls in his public housing building are lined with one of nature’s best insulation materials: hemp.

“We’re never cold in winter,” Ferembach said in French. “The kids walk around barefoot all the time, or even in their underwear.”

21/04/21
Author: 
Robert Hackett
Jagmeet Singh/Facebook

April 21, 2021

"Thanks for being part of this movement. Thanks for being part of this party."

In two consecutive sentences, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's speech to his party's recent convention referenced a central source of both division and potential dynamism.

Is the NDP a party, or a movement? And does it matter?

19/04/21
Author: 
Nora Loreto

APRIL 7, 2021

Anti-vaccine, anti-mask and anti-lockdown movements are, at their core, new mobilizations of white supremacy.

Earlier this year, CBC Marketplace journalists attended a “$623 Mastering Vaccine Info Boot Camp.” 

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17/04/21
Author: 
We Do The Work, Popular Resistance

April 15, 2021 

| RESIST!

St. Paul, MN – Following several union meetings on Wednesday night, I was made aware that a National Guard unit was occupying the St. Paul Labor Center in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Other union members and I were sharply aware of the National Guard’s role in repressing protests during the trial of Derek Chauvin and the recent killing of Daunte Wright, and we concluded immediately that our union hall had no place in those militarized efforts against the Black community, activists, and working class people.  

17/04/21
Author: 
Colleen Fuller
Hands - Image credit: giselaatje/Pixabay

April 16, 2021

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17/04/21
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe
Money - Anita Hart - Flickr

APRIL 14, 2021

New CCPA report quantifies the pandemic profits of the ultra-rich and recommends an array of new tax measures

As the third wave of COVID-19 hits Canada’s most populous provinces, a new study shows the staggering size of the tsunami of cash that has poured into the pockets of the country’s wealthiest people during this pandemic.

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