Nurses and health-care professionals from the North York Family Health Team (NYFHT), who provide care and services to approximately 95,000 people, are on strike today following the failure of their employer to negotiate a first collective agreement. More: https://ona.org/news/20251020-nyfht-strike/

Critical support for bulldozing the (entire) White House.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

19-10-1996 CANADA: When General Motors tries to break a Canadian Autoworkers strike by removing equipment, union members occupy the Oshawa plants. www.rankandfile.ca/the-1996-gm-...

Critical support for No Kings

Now it makes sense. DoFo is an apologist for dangerous drivers, including those in his cabinet. Personally, I prefer safer streets.

At tonight’s “consultation”… When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more. Listen to the clip yourself… It’s… Telling. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He's corrupt like his old man. Where are the envelopes of cash?

We're up to $2,000! Let's keep the momentum going until the campaign wraps on Sunday. Can you make a donation this evening? More info: www.thegrindmag.ca/support/

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Fund Ontario's colleges: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

“We never used to tolerate such high levels of compensation and inequality,” @marclee.bsky.social said. “Now we do. We’ve just been beaten over the head with it for a number of years.” @policyalternatives.ca #inequality www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/national-new...

Hot off the pixels at ⁦‪@theglobeandmail.com‬⁩ : my op-ed on the history of the right to strike in Canada, and the current Liberal government’s failure to learn the lessons of that history: #CanLab www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

ALL OUT ON AUGUST 16: We are calling for all people of conscience to take action, to join us on the streets, and to demand Canada stop sending weapons to Israel now! Gaza is being starved, bombarded, and kept under a brutal siege 📍Yonge & Dundas (Sankofa Square) Toronto 🗓️Saturday, August 16 ⏰3:00 PM

Another MAGA "family values" Republican.

From June 1 to the day that the strike halted the season (Aug. 12), the team had a record of 46-18. The team also had the best record in baseball at 74-40. With the strike, the dream season of the Montreal Expos ended and it became a question of "What If?" 🧵 9/12

Paging Canada's public pension plans. CPPIB in particular bdscoalition.ca/2024/05/31/c...

clearly calling out trumps blatant racism is something that should happen more often tbh

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I think about this all the time.

Today should be a statutory holiday in Ontario.

"people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites"

Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear #Opinion from @shawnmicallef.bsky.social

Despite recent labour reforms 100,000s of low-paid, vulnerable BC workers can’t collectively bargain. BC’s labour relations system fits the early 20th century when worksites were separately organized rather than today's reality of only 15% in the private sector unionized. bcpolicy.ca/uber-amazon

If we had a left that was in touch w the working class they’d go to town on this. But we don’t.

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful! Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

Dumbass stupidity.

It's a running "joke" in my family that we can't mention Via Rail with me cursing Brian Mulroney. Mark Carney seems determined to do further damage.

You know how bad the Gaza genocide has got when even the New York Times is ready to publish a noted (Israeli) Holocaust scholar explaining why this is one. Omer Bartov: "Israel is literally trying to wipe out Palestinian existence in Gaza." More here: archive.ph/0dpn2

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

Cutting "red tape" with tragic consequences. Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain.

(1/7) We are disappointed that City Staff have backed away from recommending RapidTO dedicated transit lanes on Bathurst and Dufferin north of Bloor. These routes—especially Dufferin—have been held up as a cornerstone commitment by this City Council to prioritize transit riders.

public consultation results for dedicated transit lanes on bathurst+dufferin. note overwhelming support (75%+ dufferin, 67-68% bathurst) for transit priority+converting parking to transit lanes. transportation services recommendations + councillor compromises do not reflect what people want.

UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best candidate in the race to advance our union’s agenda: to protect our premium-free health care, fix Tier 6, pass the “RESPECT check” bill, implement the class size law, revamp mayoral control and more.

Here on Terminal Island in San Pedro, we’ve received reports that ICE is using the U.S. Coast Guard base as a staging ground. This is significant because Terminal Island was one of the first places where Japanese Americans were abducted and forced into incarceration camps in the early 1940’s.

Evidence gathered by @amnesty.org demonstrates how Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in Gaza as part of its ongoing genocide.

There are a number of news briefs, including about Ontario's Bill 5 and Indigenous resistance.

Zohran Mamdani's shock win has Wall Street fretting over "hot commie summer"

Feeling steady, angry, and a small bit - heaven forbid - hopeful. So I wrote this. Thank you to @thenation.com for publishing. “The Defeat of Cuomo Would Be A Devastating Loss For Scumbag Centrism.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Lying bastard who made corrupt backroom deal says he's still cool with it. No surprise, it's the rest of us that got screwed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Sunday, rally in Toronto, 4pm

Gabor Mate for the Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Valedictorian at Ottawa high school told to stay home after drawing connection between land acknowledgment and colonial violence in Palestine. Shame on the principal and the school board! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

That wouldn't be an opening for left populism, would it?

The modern right has thrived on division, anger, hate. But courtesy please.

Got democracy--or want it? Unionize. Hope is increasingly hard to find today. But we must keep fighting to give more people a voice. As Jaz Brisack astutely argues, "growing democracy in the workplace is our best line of defense for democracy outside of it." www.thenation.com/article/acti...