Spring Magazine

There's still time to register for tomorrow's Know Your Rights workshop: workersactioncentre.org/event/online-k…

Ontario workers delivered a spectacular blow to Doug Ford’s government in November, 2022. What can we learn from this moment? Join Spring’s Mississauga organizing meeting on Friday, April 10, 6pm for a discussion of this moment and more.

I'm really disappointed to learn that City Council is opposing workers' efforts to organize–AFTER a successful vote. I just signed this letter in support of those workers and urge you to do the same. share.nwmd.social/s/ZGdk1mif

Ten years ago, John Harper’s Blades in the Dark set a new precedent for tabletop role-playing games. Now, ten years on, game designer Tim Denee returns to Harper’s Victorian-Gothic city of Duskvol and takes it somewhere unexpected: the swinging 1960s. springmag.ca/revolution-in-…

“After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly & glue.” • Jack London #canlab #1u

The cost of the @TimHoustonNS government’s Tory austerity budget cuts in Nova Scotia: Students, communities, and a future at risk. SpringMag.ca/the-cost-of-no… (with thanks to @SpringMagCA) #NSpoli #NSbudget #NovaScotia #TimHouston #canlab #1u #cdnedu #cdnpoli #NSed #HFXpoli

The impact of closing safe consumption sites in London, where more than 200 ODs were reversed last year springmag.ca/the-impact-of-…

“We talk about recovery, but you can’t recover if you’re dead.” springmag.ca/the-impact-of-…

Houston is tugging on this loose thread that could unravel a social fabric. This budget’s acceleration of resource extraction and military spending send the message that they have given up on our children’s future. #nspoli springmag.ca/the-cost-of-no…

"Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat" (coming out via @PressFernwood in May) takes a deep dive on the circumstances student migrants in Canada are facing — and how they can be addressed. springmag.ca/how-canada-use…

Power to the student movement. ❤️‍🔥✊ Students in Nova Scotia organized a historic province wide strike this past week, interweaving student rights, workers rights, and human and environmental rights. Read more here: springmag.ca/students-acros…

The energy and coordination to link struggles and fight against unpaid labour opens the fight for fair wages and decent working conditions for all. springmag.ca/book-review-a-…

The BC Teachers’ Federation passed a motion in support of the #BDS movement in solidarity with #Palestine — the first Canadian K-12 public school teachers’ union to pass a BDS motion — thanks to patient organizing from rank-and-file teachers. springmag.ca/bc-teachers-fe…

"We have to be bold, and we have to be rooted in our principles, and we have to embrace democratic socialism." #bcpoli springmag.ca/people-look-to…

New one on the Peel cuts and Doug Ford's gift card scheme

Peel Education Workers United, a coalition of the 12 unions in the Peel District School Board, are denouncing the board’s decision to cut over 300 positions. The cuts would be the biggest layoffs in the board’s history. #onted springmag.ca/fords-purchasi…

Under the theme “Rise and Resist: Uniting for a New World,” Toronto's IWD rally connected the legacy of IWD with opposition to war, gender‑based violence, and the broader social and political crises facing working‑class communities in the city. springmag.ca/international-…

We are confronted with an increasingly violent and unpredictable international order. If the Left is going to transform the world it is going to require us to build mass movements that oppose war and militarism.   springmag.ca/how-socialists…

Students at multiple universities in Nova Scotia have voted in favour of a province-wide student strike set to take place March 16 to 21. The decision marks one of the most significant student mobilizations in the province in decades. #nspoli springmag.ca/students-acros…