COVID-19 has reminded us, brutally, that not only do capital, goods, ideas (useful and nasty) and people flow like wind and water in this world; our mutating viruses do too. Less obviously, the pandemic has put communism back on the table. I use [...]
As federal and provincial governments begin to implement “reopening” plans, corporate lobbyists are making sure they have politicians’ ears. We know, for example, that the oil industry has had multiple meetings with governments at different levels, [...]
A Worker’s Friend Peter Marcus 2019 Granville Island Publishing “Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction to his book of poetry, A Worker’s [...]
Planet of the Humans (2019) Released on YouTube, April 2020 Written and Directed by Jeff Gibbs Producer Michael Moore April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalist all around the world marked this date in [...]
Public secondary teachers and education workers represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) are currently voting on a tentative deal with the provincial government. If accepted, it will end job actions that began in [...]
