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Drivers for Uber, one of the most successful companies in the gig economy are set to strike by turning their apps off for one day this week as their company prepares for its IPO.
Far-right yellow vest extremists in Saskatchewan could jeopardize Saskatchewan’s efforts to grow and attract immigrants.
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 provides important lessons of worker solidarity and action that we may need to pay close attention to as labour struggles are likely to intensify in Canada.
Fashion Revolution week puts a spotlight on the modern slavery conditions of the fashion industry and encourages fashion consumers to ask, “who made my clothes.”
Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills but our food in Canada increasingly comes from industrial farms aided by agricultural technology. What are the implications?
Children in England are among the most tested and unhappiest in the western world.
Digital technologies are changing the ways that oilfields are being managed and operated, and disrupting the labour market.
The social polarisation over Brexit is pronounced and shows no sign of diminishing.
When a pregnancy lasts 42 weeks or more or complications arise, women will need to consider being induced.
Men have defended gender segregation by treating women who cross over into male-dominated occupations with scorn and ridicule.
Telecommuting provides an economic benefit for employees working remotely, researchers have found.
Four factors led to positive change that was part planned, part felicitous – but the Preston model is already catching on across the nation.
Constructive ambiguity on the biggest issue of the day works in opposition, but Labour wants to be in government before long.
The opposition has shown what happens when principled politics takes charge.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
If Labor is to once again uncap university funding, vocational education reform is a vital.
There seems to be very limited high-level discourse about how South Africa plans to navigate this wave of technological advancement.
Global activism has played a big role in outlawing unpaid internships. Here’s how protests and social media shaming spurred negative media coverage of unpaid internships.
Each year an estimated 100 000 women have complications during childbirth which leave them with obstetric vaginal fistula.
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