The food subsidy program reportedly reaches seven million Venezuelan households and has replaced its import dependence with national production.

A new report by the Centre for Future Work argues that the economic recovery from COVID-19 needs to include stronger labour law protections for non-unionized workers and make it easier for workplaces to unionize.

The report, authored by economists Jim Stanford and Daniel Poon, argues that providing workers with official channels of “voice,” which are actually listened to and acted upon, benefits workers and employers.

The planned response to the SolarWinds hack reflects a much deeper problem in the Washington establishment’s attitudes and policy: the belief that the United States can unilaterally set the rules of the international system, and yet set different rules for itself whenever it feels an urgent need to do so.

The Canadian Freelance Union is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural virtual Diversity of Freelance Work through Arts Festival on Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23. CFU members are creative, driven, and working on exciting projects that we want to show off to the rest of Canada. 

In a new press release, Uber has proposed new changes to “reinvent independent work” in Canada. Called “Flexible Work+,” Uber claims it will start paying into individual benefits, while calling upon provincial governments to make changes to policies to improve work conditions.

Gig Workers United— a union representing food couriers and other platform-based workers— quickly denounced the proposal as “Prop 22 North.” Workers gathered Wednesday outside Uber’s headquarters on Bloor Street in Toronto to protest the new move. The workers are also protesting pay cuts and unfair deactivations.

The Ford’s government’s “Director of Pandemic Response” is a former private health lobbyist with a firm representing Shoppers Drug Mart and other companies seeking COVID-19 related contracts.