Editors (What's Left)

What's Left 2016-01-10 Volume 40

What's Left

It won't come as a surprise that capitalist think-tanks are putting forward a vision of work that should trouble anyone who works for a living. Groups such as the Policy Network and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) promote future dystopia for workers where the nature of our work is perpetually precarious, privatized, and fully market-driven. It is a vision where robots, computer programs, and artificial intelligence replace all of the world's jobs that defined and established today's affluent worker.

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What's Left 2015-12-13 Volume 38

What's Left

It's easy to be swept-up in the feeling of accomplishment the COP21 agreement promises, especially with the enthusiastic response of the media, politicians, and celebrities involved. Unfortunately, while it is a victory for so many countries to come together and unanimously agree something should be done, this is not the first time such promises have been made.

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Conflicting numbers on Hydro One sale cast further doubt on Ontario Liberals' promises | What's Left

In Ontario, the Auditor General's Report and Hydro One's numbers on the costs of maintaining transmission infrastructure don't match. When comparing company documents to the Auditor General's Report, the $520M-$620M being allocated to sustaining Hydro One's transmission infrastructure is short by about $280M-$380M per year. Over the predicted five-year investment period, the company could be short between $1.4B to $1.9B.

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Universities should create decent jobs, not eliminate them | What's Left

According to members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), several post-secondary education institutions in Ontario are putting their most vulnerable workers in the line of fire. These universities, including Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor, and the University of Toronto are engaged in an outsourcing campaign against their custodian workers in an attempt to cut their (already low) wages by up to 40%.

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What's Left 2015-12-06 Volume 37

What's Left

According to members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), several post-secondary education institutions in Ontario are putting their most vulnerable workers in the line of fire. These universities, including Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Windsor, and the University of Toronto are engaged in an outsourcing campaign against their custodian workers in an attempt to cut their (already low) wages by up to 40%.

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Paris attacks exploited to justify totalitarian crackdown on and offline | What's Left

The aftermath of shock and terror has long been used by the state to push regressive policies that further concentrate power and wealth. One of the most effective means by which to counter such concentrations of power is through broad private and public dissemination of knowledge. It should be no surprise then, that governments (and corporations) throughout history have sought to intercept and monitor any information that could pose a challenge to their totalitarianism.

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