Articles by Jesse McLaren
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Sep 23, 2018: Ford and the fight for $15 and fairnessThe situation looks dire.
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Jun 08, 2018: Ford has no mandate for cutsFord proclaimed a “strong, stable majority government,” but the Ontario election results don’t represent a surge to the right.
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Jun 01, 2018: Trans Mountain pipeline and Canadian capitalismFacing mounting opposition from the Indigenous-led climate justice movement, Justin Trudeau has committed to paying $4.
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May 30, 2018: Ontario leaders’ debate: why the silence on $15 and Fairness?The legislated raise in the minimum wage has been a huge victory for workers across Ontario, but none of the...
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Dec 13, 2017: Socialized medicine, 1917-2017This year millions felt the Bern for single-payer healthcare in the US, and have continued to mobilize against Trumps’ attacks...
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Dec 03, 2017: Raise wages not emissionsAs Naomi Klein explained in This Changes Everything, “There’s a close correlation between low wages and high emissions…Exploited workers and...
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Oct 11, 2017: After Energy East, stop Kinder MorganAmidst widespread climate disasters, a ray of hope.
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Jun 29, 2017: A people's history of CanadaThis year the Liberals are spending half a billion dollars on celebrating Canada’s 150th.
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Jun 20, 2017: Review: the anti-Trump guideWho better than Naomi Klein to write a book about the rise of Donald Trump and how to resist? Her...
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Jun 16, 2017: The radical history of oil workersOil workers embody the contradictions of capitalism.
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Feb 13, 2017: Fighting for $15 and Fairness is a matter of healthPrecarious work is a threat to your health.
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Dec 07, 2016: 10 lessons from Standing RockNear the plains where Sitting Bull defeated the army of George Custer, Indigenous communities resisted police brutality, media silence and...
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Nov 04, 2016: Trudeau's climate COP-out“In 2015, the Liberal government got elected on promises to take climate action and they are failing on that promise.
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Jun 25, 2016: 140 years ago: victory at the Battle of Little BighornToday is the 140th anniversary of one of the greatest battles of Indigenous resistance, the Battle of Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn—where...
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May 18, 2016: Solidarity with Fort McMurrayLast month Ken Smith, an oil sands worker from Fort McMurray, talked the threat of climate change and the need...
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May 14, 2016: Climate justice transitionsThe devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the...
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Apr 07, 2016: Panama papers, Canadian connectionsThe leak of the Panama Papers have not only exposed specific greedy individuals, but the general way in which capitalism...
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Apr 04, 2016: NDP: join the leap!In the lead up to the party’s convention, April 8-10 in Edmonton, more than a dozen riding associations have sent...
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Mar 08, 2016: Dublin 1916: women and the Irish rising“The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman.
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Feb 21, 2016: Claudia Jones: intersectional communist“I was deported from the USA because as a Black woman Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn...