They're called the Committee to Organize uWaterloo. It's a grassroots organization looking to improve the working conditions and mental health supports for graduate teaching assistants, graduate research assistants and contract or sessional instructors at UW, by forming a collective agreement with the university.

For most Canadians, a legal crisis will often have devastating financial consequences. Legal questions and problems, like health-related issues, are part of everyday life, yet, in contrast to our health care system, our legal system is unaffordable and thus inaccessible to most. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

"Most western governments offer generous tax incentives to encourage charitable giving. In England and Wales in 2019, an individual earning up to £50,000 a year paid 20% of it in income tax. For those earning more, anything between £50,000 and £150,000 was taxed at 40%, and anything above £150,000 was taxed at 45%. But gifts to registered charities are tax free. So a gift of £100 would cost the standard taxpayer only £80, with £20 being paid by the government. But the highest-rate taxpayer would need to pay out only £55, because the state would provide the other £45. Super-rich philanthropists, therefore, find themselves in a position where a large percentage of their gift is funded by the taxpayer."

Tens of thousands of college students across the country have gotten infected with the coronavirus, and thousands more are being sent home to potentially spread the virus to their families and communities.

ANC President Diosdado Cabello claimed there is not enough time to rewrite the magna carta before the body dissolves itself in December.

"Lula, who governed from 2003-2011, expected to run for president again at next election ... In his 24-minute pronouncement Lula, who became Brazil’s first working-class president when he was elected in 2002, dropped a major hint he was plotting a revival."

"‘They’re supposed to de-escalate a situation,’ says mother whose son Linden Cameron was having an episode caused by ‘separation anxiety’"

Prominent peace activist, lawyer and writer Kevin Zeese has died at the age of 64. Kevin Zeese was deeply involved in many anti-imperialist and anti-corporate movements, including the fight for universal healthcare and Occupy Wall Street. In 2019, he was part of a group of activists who occupied the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, D.C., to prevent it being taken over by Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition. This is Zeese speaking from inside the embassy in May 2019.

Kevin Zeese: “We’re not going to leave voluntarily. We came here to protect the embassy. We’ve been here for 34 days. We will stay longer, if necessary. We hope that this still results in an agreement between Venezuela and the United States to protect this embassy from the fake government, the fake coup nongovernment that the U.S. is pushing forward. So, we’re here. We’re still resisting.”

Kevin Zeese ran the website Popular Resistance and the podcast Clearing the Fog, with his partner Dr. Margaret Flowers.

There is no sugar coating the fact that the latest economic news—for those who are not billionaires— is bleak. It is clear we are nowhere near the end of the crisis the pandemic has triggered, but we may be approaching the end of the beginning. Following the acute economic collapse earlier in the year followed by a weak recovery, we are now entering what is likely to be a prolonged phase of stagnation at best.

Due to increased COVID-19 cleaning, the university is hiring two external companies to provide caretaking services instead of in-house workers. CUPE 3261, the union that represents over 1,200 service workers in a variety of positions at U of T, is contesting the decision.

"Boy’s parents, Curtis Elliott Jr and Dani Elliott, say police visit to their home terrified them and put their 12-year-old in danger ... “Black children cannot have that sort of thing on their record. You are reducing his chances at success.”

One study estimates the public health cost of the super-spreading event is near $12 billion.