Does CLASS get in the way of EDUCATION?
by Sadia Khan & Noaman G. Ali “fix the class system to fix the school system” Please see full article: Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents. To get involved or to learn more about...
View ArticleTerror in Dixon: Behind the Rob Ford Scandal
‘Project Traveller’ and the struggle to defend our communities Police lead a woman away in Project Traveller raids. MATTHEW SHERWOOD/NATIONAL POST By: Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Rob Ford might be the most...
View ArticleKW Spot Collective Relaunches its Peoples Programs
by BASICS Team Kitchener-Waterloo On Jan 3, 2014, the Kitchener-Waterloo Spot Collective announced the relaunching and professionalising of their people’s programs. The people’s programs, which...
View ArticleHundreds rally in Toronto to support a democratic Venezuela… and reactionary...
by Pragash Pio and Hassan Reyes Several hundred people gathered at Toronto’s Dundas Square on February 22 in response to violence in Venezuela which started at the beginning of the month. Two sharply...
View ArticleWelcome to Canada: Growing up Latino in Toronto
This is an interview by Camila Uribe-Rosales of BASICS with Oscar and R (who prefers to remain anonymous), two Latin American youth who migrated to Canada from El Salvador and Mexico, and their...
View ArticleKiller Cop Back to Work
Police Chief Reassigns James Forcillo to Crime Stoppers Unit by Shafiqullah Aziz After a seven month suspension with pay, Constable James Forcillo, who killed Sammy Yatim on July 27, 2013, returned to...
View ArticleZapatista rebellion in Mexico celebrates 20 year anniversary
by Pablo Vivanco ‘The Originales from San Andrés’ livened up the first evening of New Year with their revolutionary ‘corridos’ (Mexican folk music), tracing the history and struggle of the EZLN and...
View ArticleNot Happy Talking to the Police? Try Collective Struggle
by Christopher Williams of the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass had a firm vision of how social injustice, stemming from unjust exercises of power,...
View ArticleStrike on the Horizon at UofT
By Nathaniel Jote and Liam Fox Tensions are running high at the University of Toronto between administrators and CUPE 3902, the union which represents 7000 T.A.s and sessional lecturers on three UofT...
View ArticleBASICS Speak to CUPE 3902 Representatives about Possible Strike at UofT
by Nathaniel Jote and Liam Fox The University of Toronto and CUPE 3902, which represents student and contract teaching staff on campus, are currently negotiating new collective bargaining agreements....
View ArticleNot Happy Talking to the Police? Try Collective Struggle
by Christopher Williams of the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence In the 19th century, Frederick Douglass had a firm vision of how social injustice, stemming from unjust exercises of power,...
View ArticleDoes CLASS get in the way of EDUCATION?
by Sadia Khan & Noaman G. Ali “fix the class system to fix the school system” Please see full article: Education inequality shocks Thorncliffe Park residents. To get involved or to learn more about...
View ArticleTerror in Dixon: Behind the Rob Ford Scandal
‘Project Traveller’ and the struggle to defend our communities Police lead a woman away in Project Traveller raids. MATTHEW SHERWOOD/NATIONAL POST By: Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Rob Ford might be the most...
View ArticleKW Spot Collective Relaunches its Peoples Programs
by BASICS Team Kitchener-Waterloo On Jan 3, 2014, the Kitchener-Waterloo Spot Collective announced the relaunching and professionalising of their people’s programs. The people’s programs, which...
View ArticleHundreds rally in Toronto to support a democratic Venezuela… and reactionary...
by Pragash Pio and Hassan Reyes Several hundred people gathered at Toronto’s Dundas Square on February 22 in response to violence in Venezuela which started at the beginning of the month. Two sharply...
View ArticleWelcome to Canada: Growing up Latino in Toronto
This is an interview by Camila Uribe-Rosales of BASICS with Oscar and R (who prefers to remain anonymous), two Latin American youth who migrated to Canada from El Salvador and Mexico, and their...
View ArticleKiller Cop Back to Work
Police Chief Reassigns James Forcillo to Crime Stoppers Unit by Shafiqullah Aziz After a seven month suspension with pay, Constable James Forcillo, who killed Sammy Yatim on July 27, 2013, returned to...
View Article“They gave up on the community”: Programmers and supporters fight to save...
by Michael Romandel On May 1, 2015, the board of CHRY 105.5 FM—the York University community radio station—fired all of its volunteers and community programmers and re-branded itself as VIBE 105.5....
View ArticleTerror in Dixon: Behind the Rob Ford Scandal
‘Project Traveller’ and the struggle to defend our communities Police lead a woman away in Project Traveller raids. MATTHEW SHERWOOD/NATIONAL POST By: Kabir Joshi-Vijayan Rob Ford might be the most...
View ArticleKW Spot Collective Relaunches its Peoples Programs
by BASICS Team Kitchener-Waterloo On Jan 3, 2014, the Kitchener-Waterloo Spot Collective announced the relaunching and professionalising of their people’s programs. The people’s programs, which...
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