Canada’s income supports helped avoid mass insolvencies during the pandemic, but widespread indebtedness continues to prop up the country’s ailing economy. Workers must fight to replace easy credit with living wages.

The film and TV workers’ union IATSE ratified a pair of contracts on Monday, despite a majority of ballots being cast against the larger of the two deals. Thanks to the union’s Electoral College–style voting system, that contract passed anyway.

No democratic society should accept the principle that its parliament includes hereditary peers or lifetime appointees – it’s time to abolish the House of Lords.

Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.