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Carl and Olliver Henry nearly lost their home over a single cent. Their story highlights how racism is shaping Toronto’s financialized housing crisis

The post Corporate landlords are targeting Black tenants in Toronto through ‘racial banishment’ appeared first on The Breach.

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As Alberta unveils its massive deficit — a taste of what’s to come for a province that’s long relied on oil and gas revenue — here are the highlights when it comes to the environment

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Africville Faith Nolan 1986 Review by Dave McKee Forty years ago, Faith Nolan released her debut album, Africville. Recently, she made her catalog available through online streaming services, and that’s […]

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A grassroots campaign has defeated a bylaw that would have severely restricted the rights of people to demonstrate in the city. The campaign quickly mobilized a several-hundred-strong rally in protest…

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Climate change is exacerbating feelings of uncertainty and hopelessness among Canadian farmers, researchers say

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The company says an issue with one of its flares will take three years to fix. Experts believe the company is prioritizing profits over the public and ask why the B.C. regulator isn’t stepping in

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Indigenous leaders head a procession of politicians leaving the BC legislature's chamber following the unanimous passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

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In a statement released February 16, the Communist Party of Canada calls on the Canadian government immediately break its silence and take concrete action to defy Donald Trump’s act of […]

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By Cam Scott   On February 5, Prime Minister Mark Carney launched a new automotive initiative before an audience of press and workers at the Martinrea facility in Vaughan, Ontario. In […]

The post Carney’s military industrial strategy fails working people, but it paves the road for labour to fight for a plan of its own appeared first on People's Voice.

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On Thursday, the United States ordered the deployment of two carrier groups to the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Iran, including the USS Gerald R. Ford, the largest…

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PV Manitoba Bureau   In a resounding win for all Winnipeggers, the combined force of popular movements and labour, of community organizers and concerned citizens, has defeated a controversial anti-protest bylaw […]

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The southernmost Great Lake froze over almost completely this month — bringing people from near and far to have a look

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The project, if built, would include the second-largest power plant in Alberta and consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton

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J. Brudny   The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) is a war bank, a financial wing of NATO where governments pool tax dollars together with private capital to expand funding […]

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This year marks a decade of the partnership between the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, in Washington, and a syilx hatchery up-river

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By Lenny Devereux   The Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) is now fully operational, and the results are in: a maximum of $200 per month and over half of disabled people in […]

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Donya Ziaee and Samira Mohyeddin analyze the crackdown in Iran, Canada’s stance, and the international solidarity that Iranians need

The post What’s going down in Iran—and marches in Canada calling for intervention appeared first on The Breach.

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In EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm, Vancouver filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper show girls and women responding to natural disasters in B.C. and Yellowknife

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Donald Trump’s policies have sparked an increased discussion in Canada about the issue of sovereignty. But what does sovereignty mean for the working class, including within the labour movement? In […]

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By Anne Kamath and Umer Azad   The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of any internal […]

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With the first SMR in North America being built at the Darlington nuclear site, the province is testing new ground to meet future power demand

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Ontario’s Inspector General announced last week that all of Ontario’s police forces will be subject to corruption investigations. The monumental probe was prompted by the arrest of eight Toronto police…

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A major bank sells its shares in Elbit Systems, in one of Canada’s biggest BDS victories to date

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Restarting an aging reactor and building next-generation modular plants on the shores of the world’s largest freshwater system

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The government says changes are needed to avoid ‘uncertainty’ from court rulings. Critics argue the move could spark more, costly legal battles

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