On September 16, 2021, 100 people were present for a press conference of community members and lawyers representing those who were brutalized and charged by Toronto Police at Lamport Stadium this past July. Meeting in front of Mayor John Tory’s condominium entrance, community members peacefully made speeches highlighting the injustices taking place against the homeless […]

On June 6, the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the Kamloops residential school led to massive public outcry across Canada. Since then, more than 5,000 graves have been found at 20 residential schools, bringing Canada’s genocidal history to the forefront of popular consciousness. At Ryerson University, named after one of the […]

On March 15, 2020, only days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Ontario’s team of health and safety inspectors received a secret memo ordering them to enforce workplace laws in ways that explicitly risked the lives of workers across Ontario. The secret memo obtained through a freedom-of-information request by a journalist […]

The death of former Ontario premier Bill Davis was announced on Aug. 8. His death was met with a round of gushing praise from the political establishment across the board. Even many in the labour movement took the occasion to salute Davis’s “contributions.” We should, however, not be fooled: Bill Davis was no friend of […]

Epidemiologist Dr. David Fisman resigned publicly from Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table on Aug. 20, warning the Ford government is failing to release infection modelling data that “projects a grim fall”—as schools reopen. According to Fisman, the scientists tasked with informing Ontario’s COVID-19 response have faced repeated problems of interference, including delayed data releases. He […]

On Aug. 1, Unifor Local 112 went on strike against De Havilland Aircraft of Canada (DHC) who are dead set on laying off workers and relocating production outside of Ontario. Scabs have been flown in and the workers are rightfully using militant tactics to stop production. Facing off against Canada’s wealthiest corporate owners, and now […]

Last week, the Ontario Progressive Conservative government revealed their highly anticipated Guide to Reopening Plan 2021-22 for elementary and high schools. After managing through the longest school closures in the country, students, families and teachers are justifiably desperate for a return to in-person learning. Unfortunately, the Ford government is exploiting people’s desire for a reopening […]

Over the past few weeks, Toronto has seen several incidents of police brutality as the city has moved to evict homeless workers from the many encampments across the city. This has resulted in sharp, violent confrontations between police and community members, who bravely mobilized across the city to defend the encampments and peacefully protest against […]

On July 21, the City of Toronto deployed Toronto Police Service officers (TPS) to violently evict homeless people from Toronto’s Alexandra Park and Lamport Stadium, and beat back community members who protested. The following is an eyewitness account of what we heard and what we saw as we joined the community to defend the homeless. […]

United Steelworkers Local 3950 members at National Rubber Technologies have been locked out for over two weeks, as the company looks to claw back their severance pay and vacation rights. The workers, who recycle scrap tires on Cawthra Avenue in Toronto, arrived to find their workplace blockaded and its doors locked just days after their […]