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Made in Haiti, Dumped in Haiti

SandraCuffe — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:24:36 +0000

Global demand for cheap clothing sabotages local garment trade, workers' rights

PORT-AU-PRINCE—In Haiti, people wear T-shirts bearing unlikely English messages: "We're the 2% who don't care," says one; a respectable-looking grandmother dons a T-shirt emblazoned with "Crack is Whack!"; a little boy without shoes or pants wears a "Save Darfur" T-shirt; while training an illegal militia, a tough former army lieutenant sports a &quot

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GroundWire | Housing in the Budget, Fontaine Boushie Protest Camp, International Women's Day

GroundWire Production — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:52:04 +0000

Community Radio News from Coast to Coast to Coast

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit in Toronto by the GroundWire National Coordination Team, hosted by Omme-Salma Rahemtullah.

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GroundWire | October 9, 2017

GroundWire Production — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 01:42:23 +0000

Wild Salmon Protectors demonstration, Rally in Quebec welcomes Refugees, and Racism in Winnipeg

This episode of GroundWire is hosted by participants attending the Grassroots Radio Confere

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GroundWire | Feb 27

GroundWire Production — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:37:24 +0000

Sanctuary City, Workers in Halifax Commemorate Strike, Indigenous Writing and Literacy

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe traditional territory in Kingston by CFRC.

Headlines:

Have a Heart Day - a child and youth-led reconciliation event | Doug Farquhar, CFRC

Food service workers strike at the University of Toronto’s satellite campus in Scarborough | Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, GW

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The Petronas Project and the LNG Pipe Dream

Ashley Zarbatany — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 05:49:16 +0000

Common sense suggests that any project which would devastate one of the largest and most fragile salmon estuaries in the world is short-sighted and ill-advised. However, the proposed Pacific Northwest Liquefied Natural Gas (PNW LNG) terminal would do just that. Instead of facing condemnation, it's being touted by the B.C.

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GroundWire | June 22, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 04:28:52 +0000

Red Jam Slam Radio Festival, Bill C-24, Thunder Pride, Refugee Healthcare

This episode of GroundWire was produced in Tiohtià:ke also known as Montreal on unceded Mohawk territory by Marilla Steuter-Martin and co-hosted by Catlin Spencer at CJLO 690 am.

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GroundWire | April 14, 2015

GroundWire Production — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:37:23 +0000

Pipelines Edition

This episode of GroundWire was produced at radio station CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Occupied Anishinaabe-Aking and the Homeland of the Metis. It was hosted by Dave Quanbury and Sara Arenson.

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GroundWire | February 25, 2015 & March 3, 2015 | Homelessness Marathon Edition

GroundWire Production — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 19:05:07 +0000

This edition of GroundWire was produced by Ophira Horwitz and Cam Willis on unceded Anishinabe and Haudensaunee territories at CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston, Ontario.

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Blacklisting Migrant Workers

valcroft — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:53:47 +0000

Guatemalans speaking out against abuse expelled from temporary foreign worker program

GUATEMALA CITY—When Jose Sicajau left his community in Guatemala to participate in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, he hoped to make enough money doing seasonal agriculture work to be able to provide for his family back home.

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People and Profit

Tim McSorley — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:38:25 +0000

Comic from the Sept/Oct 2013 issue of The Dominion.

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For Heather Meek's previous comics, click here.

July in Review

dawn — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:35:33 +0000

Killer cops, fracking-free territories, war on drugs deaths memorial

Toronto police shot an 18-year-old youth nine times, killing him as he stood in the exit door of a streetcar. Sammy Yatim was wielding a three-inch knife when he was brutally murdered.

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Ten Stories, Ten Years

dawn — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000

Our editors' favourite Dominion stories from the past decade

From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, from a photocopied zine to a printed magazine distributed on newsstands across Canada, The Dominion has changed a lot over the past decade. But we've kept doing what's most important to our readers across the country: putting out news and analysis that breaks with the status quo.

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April in Review

Miles Howe — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:50:49 +0000

Wildcat strike in Alberta, Harper back-pedals, no school for the Danes, and Maggie's dead. Happy May Day!

Twenty-two members of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union (COPE) local 343 have entered the third month of their strike.

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Doing the Heavy Lifting

correybaldwin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:33:06 +0000

Canada’s temporary foreign workers vulnerable to exploitation

OTTAWA—José Sicajau, a Guatemalan man of Indigenous descent, had grown accustomed to exploitative conditions after several years as a Temporary Foreign Worker growing vegetables on a farm in Saint-Michel, Quebec, less than an hour south of Montreal.

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Subminimum on the Prairies

SandraCuffe — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:12:10 +0000

Minimum wage for workers with disabilities an ongoing struggle

WINNIPEG—Provisions to the labour code that allow employers to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage have somehow persisted until 2013 in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and are finally to be removed. But they’re still on the books in Alberta.

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