The federal election result was a disaster for the NDP, but it was also a catastrophe for the entire labour movement. There is something terribly wrong with the messaging that unions are delivering to their membership. Surely, on this day, the alarm bells must be going off in the Canadian Labour Congress and in every other labour federation across the country. How can it be that Conservatives won every seat in the Hamilton-Windsor corridor—the industrial heartland of the nation? Clearly, it (…)

Comment expliquer que les conservateurs aient remporté tous les sièges dans le corridor Hamilton-Windsor — le cœur industriel du pays ? Manifestement, soit les syndiqués n'écoutent plus du tout leurs dirigeants syndicaux, à tous les niveaux du mouvement, soit les syndicats ont perdu la capacité de communiquer efficacement avec leur propre base. Le résultat de l'élection fédérale a été un désastre pour le NPD, mais aussi une catastrophe pour l'ensemble du mouvement syndical. Il y a (…)

Moscou réprime de plus en plus cette communauté minoritaire, forçant certains à fuir. Dans la vingtaine, Mikhail* (ce n'est pas son vrai nom), un homme gay de la ville d'Oufa en Russie, faisait ce qu'il aimait : des spectacles de drag. « Je partais en tournée, à des compétitions ; je rencontrais de nouveaux artistes et je prévoyais que le drag serait le grand-père de ma vie », a-t-il confié à Al Jazeera. À ce moment-là, Mikhail a déclaré qu'il vivait sa vie ouvertement et n'avait pas (…)

Moscow is increasingly cracking down on the minority community, forcing some to flee. In his early 20s, Mikhail* (not his real name), a gay man from the city of Ufa in Russia, was doing what he loved: drag performances. “I was going on tour, to competitions; I met new artists and planned that drag would be the grandfather to my life,” he told Al Jazeera. At this point, Mikhail said, he lived his life openly and had not experienced much overt hostility from the day-to-day public. But in (…)

I would like to start off by inviting everyone to reflect on the term “Food Security”. What should this mean to the planning departments in government agencies? How should national planners evaluate the status of our “security” with respect to food supply in our country? Is it by listing the self-sufficiency levels (SSLs) of the common food items consumed by our population? And then somehow summating them to give an aggregate over-all SSL? Should we give weightage to any of the food items? (…)

The British centre- left newspaper The Guardian is not quite spelling it out. Michael Rosen in 2022 As we amble along in our [North West] corner of Europe and our wing of the crumbling 'western alliance', it's not always clear how the economic system that has grown up over the last 200 years or so, is one that inevitably means competition, conflict and often war. For example, it's hard to show or prove that Britain invading Iraq was something to do with capitalism or imperialism when (…)