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The 2020 Annual Report explores the work of CALM's board and staff throughout 2019. It wll be presented…
IT’S EASY TO LOCATE GROUND ZERO FOR COVID-19 IN NOVA SCOTIA. It’s right there, bottled up in a single building on a busy…
ASKING WORKERS TO BE OUR GUINEA PIGS IS ONE THING. Giving them no choice in the matter is quite another. But that’s the…
AMANDA MERLE THOUGHT SHE HAD LUCKED OUT. Her bank was going to let her defer her mortgage payments. When she read the fine…
CALM hosted an online zoom check in meeting on April 15 at 1 pm. The discussion was great with between 35 and…
CALM has compiled some resources to help you during the pandemic, and more are coming. If you have anything that you're looking…
ED ARVELIN DROVE 848 KILOMETERS TO WALK THE LINE. All the way from Dryden, Ontario to Regina Saskatchewan. It’s what union solidarity means…
VANCOUVER COULD USE A LITTLE JIMMY McMILLAN. Jimmy ran for mayor of New York City in 2005 and 2009 as the founder…
THE OLD MAN WAS HURTING, HUNGRY AND MAROONED IN THE ER. No one wanted it that way. But that’s how it often is…
THERE ARE TWO “INVISIBLE HANDS” AT WORK IN OUR DAILY LIVES. One is mythical and one is very real. The mythical one excites…
MARVIN MILLER FINALLY GOT HIS HOME RUN. The man who brought unions into baseball was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on December…
WORKERS AT THE TORONTO AIRPORT ARE FLYING HIGH. They dare to think and act in solidarity, all on their own. It’s a new…
IT’S A NO GO FOR SCOTT MOE. A 17-day strike by around 5000 workers in six crown corporations in Saskatchewan forced the…
NONE OF THE ABOVE WINS AGAIN. That’s no surprise to my friend Tom, the carpenter. He told me that’s who he wanted…
Doctors side with workers' desire to end demand for ‘sick notes’
SICK NOTES ARE SICK JOKES. They are also a waste of their…
The days of standing by unemployed workers are long gone
Four out of ten jobless workers get nothing out of the plan—no…
QUEBEC ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS ARE ON HIGH ALERT. A group of 150 activists gathered in Tadoussac, Quebec June 16 to demonstrate opposition to…
SOUTH OF THE BORDER male lawmakers are competing with each other in state legislatures to impose restrictions on a woman’s right to…
NURSES AREN’T BOUNCERS. But their life on the job can too often be almost as violent. They’ve had enough of it.
Nurses…
TESS SIKSAY WANTS TO ADD A UNION TO THE MENU. She is part of a team working to organize the food delivery…
MARISOL VERIDIANO BOBADILLA IS TREATED LIKE THE MUSHROOMS SHE PICKS. She is kept in the dark and fed bullshit.
That’s why Marisol…
THE BOSS LIED TO THEM FOR YEARS AND THEY KNEW IT. They knew their work was making them sick. They knew a…
“I WAS NOT A COMMUNIST ANTI-WAR DUPE IN THE 1960s. Just the way I am not a Big Oil dupe today,” says…
ZAK THORUP DOESN’T BOTTLE-UP HIS FEELINGS. In fact, he puts them in bottles. He wants his customers to do the same.
Zak…
POVERTY IS POLITICAL. Successful action to end poverty must begin with that hard truth says the brand new Nova Scotia Action Coalition…
CAN TWO GRANNIES BRING DOWN BIG OIL? Probably not. But they’re giving it their best shot.
Two Mi’kmaq grandmothers and their supporters…
“THERE’S NO LIFE LIKE IT”—THANK GOODNESS. That’s not the reaction the Canadian military got to their recruitment slogan back in the 1980s.…