Our political leaders lack the courage to stop expanding the fossil fuel industry in the middle of a climate emergency.

Our political leaders lack the courage to stop expanding the fossil fuel industry in the middle of a climate emergency.

Former Toronto councillor Mike Layton is launching a political comeback in University-Rosedale against incumbent Dianne Saxe.

On Wednesday, July 29th, Toronto City Council is considering two motions on AI Data Centres in the GTA: The Hyperscale Stack Data Centre in Scarborough and the Microsoft Data Centre in Etobicoke. Bi...

Amanda Harvey-Sánchez is an activist-anthropologist, organizing coach, and public educator who has been organizing in movements for liberation since 2015. Amanda found her way into organizing through ...

In September 2019, over 6 million people worldwide took to the streets for a series of youth-led climate strikes. Inspired by the “Fridays for Future” move

Emma B. didn’t know she had rights until her landlord tried to take them away. When he did, she got together with her neighbours, fought back, and won. And given how bad things are for tenants these d...

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Organisers say 150,000 joined protest in Madrid urging the government to ‘end the housing racket’ and to demand access to affordable housing Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Spain in the latest protest against housing speculation and to demand access to affordable homes. Organisers claim that up to 150,000 joined the protest in Madrid while smaller demonstrations were held in about 40 cities across the country. Protesters from Málaga on the Costa del Sol to Vigo in the Atlantic northwest chanted “end the housing racket” and “landlords are guilty, the government is responsible”. Continue reading...

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Six steps we can take now to stop a destructive Conservative majority