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FORD'S TEACHER SNITCH LINE IS A DECLARATION OF WAR
By Gerard Di Trolio
A little over a week since the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) announced that it would defend teachers who taught the now abolished 2015 sex-ed curriculum, Doug Ford has responded with a website encouraging parents to snitch on teachers. The website also instructs parents that they can also complain to the Ministry of Education over the phone and to the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT).
Following in Harris’s footsteps, the “small government” Tories are further centralizing power over education. Currently, only local school boards and the OCT have the power to investigate teachers for misconduct that does not violate the criminal code. Ontario is one of the few provinces that publicly discloses disciplinary cases against teachers, in the infamous “blue pages” of OCT’s lousy magazine “Professionally Speaking”. Read more!
A JUST TRANSITION FOR ALBERTA'S WORKERS
In this week’s episode of Rank and File Radio – Prairies Edition, two guests speak with Emily Leedham about race and gender in Alberta’s oilsands, as well as organizing for climate justice.
The first guest is Dr. Angele Alook is proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation and currently works in the labour movement as a full-time researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. She is also carrying out research with Parkland Institute on Indigenous experiences in Alberta’s oil industry and its gendered impact on working families. Read more!
MINIMUM WAGE HIKES AREN'T WRECKING ONTARIO AND ALBERTA
By David Climenhaga
Now there’s a surprise! Ontario’s minimum wage increase behaved exactly as predicted by most mainstream economists.
That is, the 21-per-cent wage increase implemented by the former Liberal government that took effect on Jan. 1 this year did none of the terrible things Conservative politicians, right-wing think tankers, Astro-Turf “tax watchdog” organizations, business groups, and the online Conservative Angry Brigade predicted. Read more!
NOVA SCOTIA: NO PIPE, NO PANDERING, THE ENEMY IS THE 1%
By Solidarity Halifax
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, a subsidiary of Paper Excellence, owns a pulp mill at Abercrombie Point and an effluent treatment facility in Boat Harbour – both near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia – in the Epekwitk Aqq Piktuk district of Mi’kma’ki. The mill and treatment facility have been sites of struggle for a long time. Read more!
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