When you're at the grocery store checking for "Product of Canada" labels, remember that most of our domestic fruits and vegetables are grown and harvested by migrant farmworkers from Mexico, Jamaica, and the Eastern Caribbean.
Produced in Canada under a system of laws that benefits the multibillion-dollar agriculture industry at the expense of the migrant workers who sustain it.
Produced in Canada by migrant workers who pay into EI but are denied access to regular EI benefits.
Produced in Canada by migrant workers who, in Ontario, are denied the right to join a union.
Produced in Canada by migrant workers who are regarded by the state as good enough to work, but never good enough to stay – no matter how many years of service they put in.
Canada's history of systemic racism and exploitation in agriculture exposes the falsehood of the claim that "we are all in this together." Class consciousness demands more than exercises of purchasing power in difficult times. It demands solidarity with workers in our collective struggle for economic justice and liberation.
“If you take out the food delivery bikes, there’s not many (bikes).”
Here is Tory saying an entire class of workers - the young men who commute from Brampton to bring Rosedale its Uber Eats - don’t count.
Clearly, they should cycle in mixed traffic and risk dying.
@AndrewLuptonCBC Re. The text of your article: there are no such thing as “Girl Scouts” in Canada. There are Scouts and Girl Guides. Girl Guides also do not have “troops”, they have units. Don’t let American cultural hegemony get in the way of an accurate article.
@diana_h56 They 100% did! It used to be after 5 mins, then for a while it was much longer (I never figured out how long but I think 10 mins?), now it is really short (I think <5 mins)
it’s not a new era of self acceptance. it’s what i said last year about how beauty shifted to being about the semblance of biological advantage rather than skill. we see this transition through the shift toward skincare, surgery / injectables, lash extensions.