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Shedding Light on the Ontario Social Assistance Review
By Diamond Wisdom As various levels of government have moved forward with their austerity agenda, warning bells should be ringing in the ears of low-income people because they are most likely to...
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Auto Manufacturing Workers at a Crossroads
by Marlon Berg “The place is hot like hell, especially in the summer time at night, bad ventilation, a lot of humidity and of course machines emitting heat doesn’t help.’ said Iain*, a temporary worker...
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Ontario Liberals: Putting Students and Education Workers Last
By N. Zahra Teachers protest violation of collective bargaining rights. (Photo credit: Michael Swan) This month, the Ontario Liberal Government intends to introduce the Putting Students First Act 2012,...
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Trading Horses Before Kitchener By-Election a Blow to Injured Workers
McGuinty appointed Tory MPP to WSIB to gun for majority by Julian Ichim – Kitchener, Ontario While the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP struggled to distinguish themselves as they battled it out for...
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Why a Political Defence is the Only Way to Fight my Political Charges
Julian Ichim is facing a possible prison sentence for political writings published on his blog. by Julian Ichim Since I was charged last year for refusing to take down my blog post regarding the piece...
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Six Nations and Dundalk Fight Corporate Crap
Why We Should All Support Their Struggle by Laura Lepper You have probably never heard of a small, rural town in Southgate Township called Dundalk. But its location is significant. The town is situated...
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Take your land and take you to court
On October 26th, Walton Development attempted to file an injuction against Mohawk workers and Six Nations people, who have been protesting against future housing development at Tutela Heights, in...
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Don’t Believe the Hype: Misreporting the Teachers’ Struggle
by Jordy Cummings Across Ontario, teachers have been mounting resistance to the newly enacted provincial bill 115, which effectively removes the right of collective bargaining and the right to strike...
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Radio Basics: Zig Zag on Idle No More / Toronto High school teacher Luis...
January 14, 2013 on Radio Basics: Zig Zag on Idle No More / Toronto High school teacher Luis Filipe on teachers rank-n-file resistance to Bill 115 Click here to download Mp3 or stream. Feature...
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6 Nations / Tamil Activists Publish Joint Solidarity Statement
Preamble On December 30th of 2012, members of both the Onkwehonwe [First Peoples] of the Haudenosaunee 6′Nations Confederacy and the Canadian Tamil community met in Scarborough. This event fulfilled...
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Turn Pipe-Lines Into Pipe Dreams: Fight Line 9
by Jesse M. Zimmerman Successive Conservative governments led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper have moved to make Canada an “energy superpower.” As a result, Alberta’s tar sands have become central to...
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Resist the Criminalization of Indigenous Land Defenders!
Pack the Cayuga Courthouse! by Laura Lepper In March and July 2013, two Six Nations women Francine “Flower” Doxtator and Theresa “Toad” Jamieson will be dragged through the Canadian courts once again...
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Counter-Insurgency “Community Policing” Coming to Kitchener
Community to fight back with protest march and people’s report Police are taking lessons from the British occupation of Northern Ireland, and applying them to poor communities in Southern Ontario....
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Introducing the Two Row Wampum
An agreement for peace, friendship and respect. by Tom Keefer The Two Row Wampum is one of the oldest treaty relationships between the Onkwehonweh (original people) of Turtle Island (what Indigenous...
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Mobile Monopolies and Telecom Trickery
Photo courtesy University of Maryland Press Releases Working people lose as providers gang up to rip you off by Jordy Cummings A few years back, were you as dependent on your cell phone as you are now?...
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Austerity Agenda Means Mounting Attacks on Poor
by John Clarke As we approach May Day, it is worth considering the impact of the mounting austerity agenda on the poorest part of the working class and some of the ways the poor are fighting back as...
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Solidarity Alliance Observes Colonialism in Ontario’s ‘Deep North’
Building Infrastructure and Grassroots Power in the Mishkeegogamang and Saugeen Communities Delegates and supporters of the ILPS Commission in Support of Indigenous People’s Struggles – Mishkeegogamang...
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Kitchener-Waterloo Activists Release People’s Report on Policing
November 2012 in Toronto there was an OIPRD conference on police complaints that put forward the Provincial Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (PAVIS), the new model of policing. In response to this,...
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Rash of Overdoses in Kitchener as Heroin Epidemic Continues
by Basics Kitchener-Waterloo The increase of fatal overdoses in Kitchener has forced the local health department to declare a heroin epidemic. Despite this, little has been done to deal with this...
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Popular Education Workshop on Venezuela Held in Kitchener
by Julian Ichim On May 15th, people gathered at the Queen St. Commons to participate in a popular education workshop on Venezuela. The workshop started with Santiago Escobar of the Popular Front Hugo...
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