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Basic income is on the table in Canada. Is it the fight we want?
Posted on 26 September 2020While the pandemic economy is far from behind us, the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)—Canada’s chief unemployment benefit—is soon coming to an end. Many on the left have since begun actively refusing a post-CERB world, calling ...
Political openings: Class struggle during and after the pandemic
Posted on 26 September 2020For some on the left, the economic breakthrough brought on by the pandemic was the general consensus, not least among economists, for an astonishing increase in fiscal spending. Relative to the economy’s size, the stimulus introduced so f ...
Are tar sands expansion and Canada's high carbon emissions anti-Black?
Posted on 26 September 2020As attention is focused on climate-change-fuelled fires ravaging California and Oregon, a series of "natural" disasters have swept through parts of the African continent. Across the Sahel region, millions have been devastated by floods i ...
Newfoundland and Labrador is a ‘net exporter’ of plastic pollution
Posted on 26 September 2020ST. JOHN'S, N.L. —A comprehensive report of data spanning six decades concludes the vast majority of plastic pollution along the province’s coasts originates right here. One of the report’s co-authors, Max Liboiron, an associate professo ...
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A State Funeral Will Be Held in Memory of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner
Posted on 23 September 2020
Canadians with experience of mental health issues more likely to view it as disability
Posted on 23 September 2020TORONTO/CNW/ - In a year when the global pandemic has sent stress levels soaring, Canadians who have had experience with mental health challenges, or taking time off for disabilities, are more likely to see mental health illnesses ...
Real Estate
These are the rules for evictions in Toronto right now
Posted on 23 September 2020
Another run-down house in Toronto is on the market for nearly $900,000
Posted on 23 September 2020Anyone who knows anything about real estate in Toronto could tell you that a downtown house going for less than $1 million is very likely too good to be true — and there's one recent listing that certainly serves to prove this point. Much like the Queen ...
Environment & Economy
Are tar sands expansion and Canada's high carbon emissions anti-Black?
Posted on 26 September 2020
Newfoundland and Labrador is a ‘net exporter’ of plastic pollution
Posted on 26 September 2020ST. JOHN'S, N.L. —A comprehensive report of data spanning six decades concludes the vast majority of plastic pollution along the province’s coasts originates right here. One of the report’s co-authors, Max Liboiron, an associate professor of geography at Memorial University, said that...
