Stephanie

Migrant workers fight to reclaim hundreds of millions in EI benefit TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On February 23, 2026, Justice Edward Morgan of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice released a...

GOOD NEWS - The suit has been certified (can move forward) that Canada has violated the Charter rights of migrant farmworkers employed under SAWP & acknowledges massive wage theft in Employment Insurance (EI) premiums paid by SAWP workers

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Research Assistant - 4 Month Term Research Assistant Research · Ottawa, Ontario The Organization: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, ...

We just put up the application for this summer's progressive economics fellowship. Its a paid 4 month term to work with me at @policyalternatives.ca and 100 other progressive policy experts to create this year's Alternative Federal Budget. Apply now: ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/48

So important as the left grapples with if we are *in* fascism or not..? just shows the need to study Black radical thinkers like George Jackson, Angela Davis, & Aimé Césaire etc., that situate fascism in relation to colonialism/capitalism & not just a reaction to socialism/communism gathering speed.

Harvest moon | Cream of the Crop - Episode 2 | CBC Creator Network YouTube video by CBC British Columbia

Kat Hutton's miniseries is a glimpse into cherry picking in the Okanagan (BC). It was great to have her put this in conversation with the workforce changes since the pandemic/endless climate catastrophes increasing rates of migrant & undocument domestic labour.
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Crisis as Class Strategy Mostafa Henaway on the emergence of the Carney doctrine in Canadian politics: elbows up and austerity for the many.

"A common front means weaving the fightbacks together... The strategic question now is how to build a mass, multiracial, working-class resistance to Carney at the scale required, capable of sustained confrontation. " Great piece as always by Mostafa Henaway www.midnightsunmag.ca/crisis-as-cl...

An aging substation caused Montreal’s latest blackout. Its replacement is still years away | CBC Accessibility The equipment failure that left thousands of Montrealers without power during this weekend’s bitter cold originated at a substation that Hydro-Québec has been aiming to replace since at least 2018.

Did not appreciate the 3-day-late automated msg from @hydroquebec.com after days w/o electricity, telling me: there is a blackout (well, duh); & secondly, that it is our responsibility to reduce our usage during a cold snap when, really, it is an infrastructural failing!? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...

Property controls are yet another way that grocery chains exert their market power in ways that raise prices and undercut people's agency and choice in food systems. @keldonb.bsky.social @clairek.bsky.social See link in comments for recent analysis on same...

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Former GM plant in St. Catharines is leaking toxic chemicals | The Narwhal St. Catharines residents waiting for Bayshore Groups to clean up former GM plant learned province, city kept suspicions of leaks quiet for years

Rereading this as it marks 11 yrs since my mom's death attributable to working on the assembly-line at GM for ~ 30 years. Would love to return to St.Catharines to work on a project to tell the workers stories even if it means being told by those of us left behind.

thenarwhal.ca/st-catharine...

Showing Our Work: The Real U.S. Oil Payoff in Venezuela, a Timeline The U.S. invasion of Venezuela was at least partly driven by oil, but not in the ways most people are talking about.

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

UFCW Canada, the food workers’ union, calls for stronger protections as avian influenza flu cases grow | UFCW Canada - Canada’s Private Sector Union As avian influenza cases continue to spread across the country, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada, the poultry workers’ union, is calling for strong protections and government action fo...

Kinda wild that poultry and agricultural workers are not included in Canada's HVAI vaccine eligibility despite working directly with animals, and thus having increased rates of exposure. www.ufcw.ca/index.php?op...

US and EU sanctions have killed 38 million since 1970 Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

"The US and Europe have long used unilateral sanctions as a tool of imperial power, to discipline and even destroy Global South governments that seek to shake off Western domination, chart an independent path, and establish any kind of meaningful sovereignty."
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025) Since October 7, 2023, Canada has witnessed one of the most sustained mass mobilizations in its history. From coast to coast, hundreds of thousands of citizens—students, workers, families, and seniors...

Brilliant report from @cjpme.org on Policing Palestine Solidarity: A Crisis of Civil Liberties in Canada (2021-2025). Without confronting this, "...the machinery of repression built today will remain." FOREIGN POLICY = DOMESTIC POLICY.
www.cjpmefoundation.org/re_2025_12_2...

Good writing days feel like playing Tetris; everything glides into place. I am always curious about people's writing habits. What do you do?

International Day of Migrants Film Screening - My Friend Omar: The Struggles of a Seasonal Worker | National Farmers Union Start Time by Time Zone: 4pm PST / 5pm MST / 6pm SK-MB / 7pm EST / 8pm AST On December 18th, the UN International Day for Migrants, the National Farmers Union invites you to a virtual public film…

This Thursday is National Day of Migrants. Join the @nfudc.bsky.social for a viewing & discussion of My Friend Omar: The Struggles of a Seasonal Worker. in the evening Register here:
www.nfu.ca/event/intern...

| Canadian Labour Congress The labour movement was created by people standing up together for fair wages, safe workplaces and decent work hours.

Unionizing is the fastest way to improve working conditions. In Canada, unionized workers make ~ $7+/hr more than non-unionized workers. The attacks on organized labour from federal & provincial governments signal how they have zero interest in the working class. canadianlabour.ca/get-into-a-u...

Montreal transit strike over as STM maintenance workers' union suspends work stoppage | CBC News A day before Quebec's labour minister is set to table a bill that would give the provincial government the power to end the ongoing public transit strike, the union representing maintenance workers wi...

What a sad day for labor organizing in Quebec. The early enforcement of Bill 89 (deem any service 'essential' barring strike actions), STM maintenance workers return to work. "The STM no longer had any incentive to negotiate with us," union president Bruno Jeannotte.
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Raluca Bejan & research team have published "Decent Work and Temporary Stay: An Overview of the ILO Agri-Food Guidelines Affecting Migrant Workers in Canada" gflc.ca/wp-content/u... Key findings include how Federal & provincial supports like labour subsidies have strengthened agri-food enterprises.

2025 federal budget analysis roundup - CCPA This page exists to bring together progressive policy organizations' responses to the 2025 federal budget. Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.

Check out responses to the 2025 federal budget from progressive policy organizations. (Keep an eye on this page, as it will continue to be updated in the coming days.) @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Farmers Feed Candy Waste to Animals, but There Are Better Solutions The practice may encourage companies to keep producing more than we humans actually consume.

An unexpected but unsurprising story of corn syrup, candy, farmed animals, and "corporate sustainability".

sentientmedia.org/farmers-feed...

What exactly is climate obstruction—and how does it differ from denial?

Chapter 1 of “Climate Obstruction” explains in short: the science is clear—but powerful actors are slowing action.

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Our @tulenetwork.bsky.social Call for Papers is out for the 2026 @sasemeeting.bsky.social mini-conference! MC07: Rethinking Labour on a Troubled Planet: Just Transitions, Trade Unions, and Labour Environmentalism - find more information here: sase.org/events/2026-... Can't wait :)

This temporary foreign worker is owed $60,000 in unpaid wages from his time in Canada. He may get nothing Migrant workers who prove wage theft are increasingly unable to recover the money they are owed even when Ontario government is trying to collect it.

Unaddressed wage theft amongst temporary foreign workers is one of the many reasons why these programs should be abolished. Extra wild to read that Alek Thompson owed $60,000, worked for a construction company, 'Polat' that had federal contracts. www.thestar.com/news/canada/....

Ontario’s draft rules for special economic zones limit oversight | The Narwhal The Doug Ford government’s draft regulations for special economic zones under Bill 5 empower ministers and dismiss First Nations’ request for oversight

Got distracted by US politics & overlooked the passing of Bill C-5 "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act," which gives the green light for the creation of special economic zones that sound a lot like those under structural adjustment programs. Major YIKES. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

A Rare Glimpse Inside Canada's Prison Farms - We Animals Low wages, high costs, hidden cruelties. Incarcerated people at Joyceville and Collins Bay penitentiaries in Ontario are paid under 46 cents an hour to work on federally funded prison farms.

@weanimals.bsky.social stepped inside Canada's prison animal production farms. Consider that "Incarcerated people at Joyceville and Collins Bay penitentiaries are paid under 46 cents an hour to work on these federally funded prison farms."

weanimals.org/project/a-ra...

Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.

To all my comrades researching 'just transitions,' check out this call for papers from @deindustrialpol.bsky.social. Due October 1st!

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Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

Really looking forward to this! Battistoni's text develops Marx's concept of the "free gift" questioning why it is that capitalism fails to or fumbles to value nature.

Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit.

At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.”

That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

To any fellow salters out there 👀 Excited to read: Get on the Job & Organize by Jaz Brisack. I do hope there is a bit of an analysis of the limitations of salting, b/c it can feel a bit too vanguard-y.

inthesetimes.com/article/is-s...

Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy Rebuilding worker power by strengthening unions is not just good policy—it is a democratic imperative in the face of authoritarian backsliding.

"Unions don’t just improve workers’ paychecks—they shape the social and political fabric of the communities they operate in, lifting standards for union and nonunion workers alike," regardless of taking an intentional social justice union position.

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