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LONDONERS STIR UP SOME DIRT ON CANADA POST
By David Heap and Wendy Goldsmith, members of Londoners 4 Door 2 Door
Inspired by other community activists Ottawa and Hamilton, Londoners have been taking up the spade in response to Canada Post’s hurried approach to the conversion of door to door delivery to self serve mail boxes.
After working on door-to-door canvassing since January, raising the issue in local media, in town hall meetings and in our neighbourhoods, we have had to step up our resistance to the Canada Post juggernaut in recent weeks. As holes were excavated in our communities and concrete pads installed without even Canada Post reporting back about consultations as was promised to London’s City Council in March, we moved into more direct action. We first took a stand by sitting in a hole dug on Cavendish Crescent, which got a quick reaction from some of London’s city councilors, leading to a resolution from a City Council that had avoided taking a stand on the issue for months. Read more!
NAVIGATING ELECTIONS CANADA'S NEW (AND UNCLEAR) THIRD PARTY SPENDING RULES
By Nora Loreto
I don’t anticipate removing my Save Canada Post sign from our front door before Oct. 19.
The campaign is far from over and I deeply believe that home mail delivery is an issue of social importance.
When I saw a debate on Facebook about whether or not new election third-party spending rules would require me to remove the sign from the window, I immediately uttered an “oh hell no” and stumbled into the debate that is surely occupying the campaigns and legal staff of unions across Canada.
The Conservatives have gamed the rules of this election in their favour. They changed elections rules to make voting more difficult. Elections Canada can no longer promote how voting works, privileging voters who are more seasoned (or, older). Read more!
A LABOUR JOURNALISM RESURGENCE?
By Michal Rozworski
As unions and workers suffered defeats over the past few decades, so has labor journalism dwindled from a mainstay of major media outlets across Canada and the US to a relatively niche reporting interest. The past few years, however, have seen a still small but noticeable resurgence of labor reporting. Large media outlets, both print and online, have once again started to hire journalists looking at workers’ issues and reporting from the perspective of workers. At the same time, independent media have continued to do the same and some have gained in readership and size. The staff at some new media outlets, most recently Gawker and Salon, have even unionized themselves. This week’s podcast looks at the state of labor journalism, trying to get a sense of the current rekindling. Read more!
LESSONS FROM LAUNDRY PRIVATIZATION: WHY FREEDOM OF INFORMATION MATTERS IN THE ERA OF PRIVATIZATION
By Tria Donaldson and Cheryl Stadnichuk
Brad Wall is the latest premier to push a privatization agenda that is seeing public accountability and transparency take a back seat to corporate profits.
Everywhere privatization has occurred, public access to the facts and figures around privatization has been a challenge. Here in Saskatchewan, that challenge can been illustrated by the difficulty of getting information about the privatization of hospital laundry.
The cloak of secrecy was delt a major blow last week when the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner recommended the disclosure of a 10-year contract for laundry services between K-Bro Linen Systems and 3sHealth. Read more!
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