Activists continue to try to stop the clock from being turned back. However, with the election of far-right populists in America, that project has become more difficult. Rights activists have become both the leading edge of the fight and the rearguard.
Anti-Choice activists, coming to a campus near you; Homelessness is a youth issue; November 20 was Trans Day of Remembrance; Students across the country fight for access to PSE
The Republicans have won the US Presidency, and clear majorities in the House and Senate. All at a time when critical appointments to different parts of the US bureaucracy and branches of government will have lasting implications.
We have been here before, but it feels different this time; BC teachers' union wins right to negotiate learning environment; Book Review: The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende; LEFT NOISE: Leonard Cohen has died at age 82
Liberals announce terrible social services plan, we make fun of it with satire; Standing Rock Hard; Quebec: Liberal Party corruption, police spying on journalists; Basic Income; LEFT NOISE
In a clear victory for rhetoric over substance in the age of post-truth, the Ontario Liberal government has announced that it will run a pilot project to test the so called 'universal basic income” idea. However, from the policy documents that have been released, it is quite obvious the Liberals intend to implement a more regressive version of this deeply flawed policy program. The Liberal-supporting media is tying itself in knots in attempts to support the program. First, a plea decrying Ontario's 'meagre and rule-bound social assistance program' that the provincial government has purposefully manipulated in order to limit access to supports. Then, without a sense of irony, the media say that cash to buy private services is the only way to fix the problems previous Liberal and Conservative governments created through privatization and austerity.
