by Nathaniel Jote On Wednesday March 4, the constituency office of Finance Minister Joe Oliver was picketed as part of the beginning of a nationwide “Campaign Against the 4 Year Limit on Migrant Workers.” Organised by the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), “a coalition that includes migrant workers, allies, workers’ centres, legal aid …
by Liam Fox CUPE 3902 Unit 1 represents more than 6000 teaching assistants, part-time lecturers, lab demonstrators, graders, and invigilators employed at the University of Toronto. In the early hours of February 27th, a tentative agreement between the employer and the union was reached, awaiting a ratification vote from its members. The vote, which took …
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. Negotiations seem to have stalled, however, and Units 1 (mainly TAs) and 3 (mainly sessional lecturers) are readying for a possible strike. At a townhall last …
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 campuses. During 2014, Units 1 and 3 of CUPE 3902 both had their collective bargaining agreements with the university expire. However, the University …
by Michael Romandel On October 29, 2014, Sportchek in a partnership with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (the Raptors owners) launched an advertising and publicity campaign called #MyNorth asking Torontonians to share stories about local basketball culture in the various Toronto ‘hoods. The campaign builds off of Drake’s re-branding of the Toronto Raptors earlier this …
A Poem by Joel Zola Written for the founding of street voices magazine We live in the modern day world of cellphones, wikipedia, and social media Sexual messages are sexually transmitted like gonorrhoea to our subconscious The masses are asleep to reality like we’re unconscious The voices of the streets will be the alarm clock, …
by Shafiqullah Aziz Since June 16th, residents and community members of Toronto’s downtown east side have been subject to a sharp increase in police presence in the area as a result of a new neighbourhood project initiated by 51 Division. Less than a month into the project, community members in the area are already beginning …
by BASICS Neighbourhood Committee It’s become a common sight on the evening news. Police proudly displaying a cache of guns, cash and drugs, announcing they took down the latest threat to public safety; Sick Thugz, Dixon City Bloods, Young Buck Killers or any other partially made-up gang held responsible for all the violence in its respective …
Between June 16 and September 8, 2014 the area between Wellesley to Shuter, and Church to Parliament in the east end of downtown will be the focus of an ongoing police sweep, led by 51 Division and involving dozens of officers and organized under the auspices of the Toronto Anti Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS). They are …
by S. Mac Giolla Íosa Located near the border between Scarborough and East York near Dawes Road, George Webster Elementary School is touted by its officials and the Ministry of Education as being a “model inner city school” that addresses the needs of the neighbourhood’s ethnically diverse community and working class inhabitants. For a model …
