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Public debate, public governance: what's missing from the Sidewalk Labs project | What's Left Issue 110
The dog days of summer saw a new development in what some are calling a new world-historical event, and not in a good way. It is the creation of Sidewalk Labs on the Toronto waterfront through an …
Ontario faculty, staff, and students oppose Ford government’s 'performance' funding for postsecondary institutions | OUCC
The proposed market-based performance funding model will tie 60 per cent (over $3 billion dollars) of postsecondary funding to each institution’s ‘performance’ against a set of arbitrary …
OCUFA estimates Ford’s 'performance' funding could cut university budgets by over $500 million dollars | OCUFA
Toronto, Sep. 4, 2019 – Ontario faculty are warning that the Ford government’s so called ‘performance’ funding model for postsecondary education is reckless, ineffective, and dangerous. …
Graduate student issues and the academy | Graham Cox
A version of this article was presented to the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario 2018 general meeting. The domination of the neoliberal view for the previous nearly four decades has meant that …
Alberta Conservatives Start Governing by Attacking Worker Rights and Future Generations
The newly elected United Conservative Party under Jason Kenney announced in the speech from the throne that their main priority is to drive wages down for workers, remove protections for workers at …
#SaveOurLibraries : resisting Ford's ignorant cuts
It was just a question of time before the Ford government went after libraries. Of all the things that are going on in Ontario, it is so sad that we have to take up the fight to defend local library …
What is a general strike?
Today is May Day, International Workers’ Day. With roots in the workers’ struggle for an 8-hour work day, this day has been marked for more than a century in countries across the world. …
Lancement de Vendredi Français
Notre collaboratrice Roxanne Dubois publie un nouveau bulletin hebdomadaire intitulé vendredi français qui s’adresse aux francophones et aux francophiles. Le vendredi, le bulletin présente une …