By Simon Black and Larry Savage Originally posted on The Conversation On Labour Day, the Conservative Party’s new leader, Erin O’Toole, released a video touting his new “Canada First” economic strategy. In it, he blames big government, corporate [...]

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With Larry Savage The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout pose serious challenges for Canada’s workers. Naomi Klein’s 2007 bestseller, The Shock Doctrine, documented how political and economic elites have exploited crises to advance an [...]

Sports journalism is not immune from the year-end “listicle”, the clickbait content that dominates the Web every December. While I admit to being a sucker for these “best of” exercises, as a decade came to a close the stakes were high but the [...]

With Julie Stevens and Michele K. Donnelly The Dream Gap Tour of elite hockey players put the women’s game back in the news this fall. Some of the world’s best players — including more than 35 Olympians — played in the four-team exhibition [...]

With Anthony Fenton As Canada’s largest labour organization and the political arm of the labour movement, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) has long been a voice for peace, human rights and social justice. But on one of the most controversial [...]

Photo: Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Leslie Smith is a mixed martial arts (MMA) athlete and a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) top-ten fighter. But the biggest fight of her career isn’t in the octagon — it’s the fight to unionize the sport [...]

Photo: OHL Major junior hockey is big business. Everyone from coaches to Zamboni drivers to concession stand workers gets paid and protected under labour laws. Everyone, that is, but the players. The Government of Ontario’s new fiscal road map [...]

Photo: Agência Brasil On the eve of World Cup 2018, soccer’s international governing body, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, announced that the United bid of Canada, Mexico, and the United States has been awarded [...]

Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Harry Edwards’s classic of activist scholarship, The Revolt of the Black Athlete. Edwards was the architect of the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights, a campaign remembered most for the medal podium [...]

Premilla Nadasen, Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Boston: Beacon Press, 2015) Within a short period of time, Premilla Nadasen has established herself as one of the most important [...]

Photo: BBC Another Progressive Conservative government in Ontario, another war on the poor. Anti-poverty activists old enough to remember the days of the Mike Harris government will know just how quickly and deeply the Doug Ford Conservatives [...]

It was a riot in the minds of those politicians whose rule was, and remains, dependent upon the suppression of. It was a riot in the minds of those politicians whose rule was, and remains, dependent upon the suppression of historical memory not [...]

By the time San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a stand against oppression by taking a knee during the national anthem, it will have been clear to even the most casual sports fan that we are in the midst of an [...]

Andrew Zimbalist is professor of economics at Smith College and author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, which The Guardian newspaper has called “A remarkable study that exposes the [...]