A Look Back At Canada’s Failed Digital Contact-Tracing Experiment
This is the first issue of Tech Won’t Save Canada, a new, monthly series at Passage hosted by writer and podcaster Paris Marx.
Opinion
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Help Save The Cities You Love. Stop Using Airbnb
Deleting the app can serve as an act of resistance against greedy property owners and landlords throughout the world.
Striking HBC Logistics Workers Have Won A New Contract
Warehousing and logistics are emerging as key sites in contemporary struggles over work.
RCMP Incompetence Is The Real Scandal In The Nova Scotia Inquiry
Police forces have abused the idea that politicians should stay out of the justice system, and operate with contempt for the public.
More Than 2,000 Canadians Have Died With COVID Caught In Hospital
From April 2020 to December 2021, at least 5,000 people in Canada (excluding Quebec) caught COVID-19 in hospital, and about 1,332 died.
Amazon Continues Failing To Meet Labour Standards
As a new report makes clear, Amazon remains a serial violator of international labour standards and norms.
Severance Is The Workplace Thriller We’ve Needed
What sets Severance apart from other shows is that it unearths what’s at the heart of capitalism and how it shapes our lives.
Vaccines Still Aren’t Our Ticket Out Of The Pandemic
Rather than take systemic approaches to keep us safe, politicians sold us a lie they’re sticking by: that vaccines are the way out.
Interest Rate Hikes Won’t Take The Air Out Of Inflation
Hiking interest rates now in an attempt to tame supply-driven inflation will only kick labour while it’s down.