BUILD: Mutual Aid & Community

As threats to democracy endanger the rights and freedoms of people around the world, scholars are increasingly interrogating the role that organizations play in...

Indigenous Workers of Colour Conference 2025A New Era for the Working Class: Being BIPOC in these Damn Historic TimesRegister HereAsian Heritage Month Film ScreeningJoin us for Exclusion: Beyond the Silence, a documentary that reveals the human impact of a discriminatory immigration policyInfo & RSVPTAKE ACTION: Protect Our Charter RightsToronto City Council is considering bans on […]

The Public Service Alliance of Canada represents more than 240,000 workers in every province and territory in Canada and in locations around the world. Our members work for federal government departments and agencies, Crown Corporations, universities, casinos, community services agencies, Aboriginal communities, airports, and the security sector among others. PSAC is headquartered in Ottawa with 23 regional offices across Canada.

OSSTF/FEESO, founded in 1919, has 60,000 members across Ontario. They include public high school teachers, occasional teachers, educational assistants, continuing education teachers and instructors, early childhood educators, psychologists, secretaries, speech-language pathologists, social workers, plant support personnel, university support staff, and many others in education.

Justice for Workers • La justice pour les travailleurs et travailleuses

Whether you’re looking for your next job or need help exploring a new career path, the team of experts at the Labour Education Centre helps people expand their skills and find good jobs.

NUPGE

Canada's largest and oldest students' federation, uniting over 500,000 post-secondary students from coast to coast.

CUPE represents workers in health care, emergency services, education, early learning and child care, municipalities, social services, libraries, utilities, transportation, airlines and more.

The Canadian Labour Congress brings together unions, federations of labour and labour councils representing more than 3 million workers across the country to build a progressive path forward.

Migrant workers in the gig economy are arguably the most exploited labour force in Canada.Derailing Dignity (https://mayworks.ca/project/derailing-dignity/) ...

A non-partisan centre of excellence, developing timely and practical policy proposals to help make the world of work better for working people and their families.

Canada's largest cities come together for a "Joint Declaration", calling on the federal government to work with local and provincial governments to address the funding crisis facing the country’s largest transit agencies.

The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Isabella Weber, demonstrating how economic shocks and corporate profits have affected our affordability crisis. From gas to groceries, this lecture provides valuable context and a policy toolkit for helping ordinary Canadians through economic crisis.

Building It Green is a national training program to strengthen the construction industry’s ability to support journeypersons, apprentices, and trades instructors as they meet the challenge of a net-zero future and the challenges posed by climate change.

A conversation with scholar Matt Huber on climate strategy and class politics.

Last fall, municipal and transit-sector leaders issued a joint declaration calling on the federal government to fix our broken public transit funding model. So far, they’ve been ignored.

Find out how the government can help Canada double its public transit ridership by 2035 and reduce emissions by 65 million tons.

Public Transit, Good Jobs The Green Economy Network (GEN) has a comprehensive plan to address the current needs of public transit systems across the country and develop high speed rail travel between the nation’s most populous urban centres and along its busiest routes

Fraser has argued that much scholarship in political science and democratic theory on these issues is hampered by “politicism”: an inclination to view the political in separation from other social spheres, which fails to appreciate the structural nature of contemporary crises. Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised, however it needs to be situated within a broader understanding of the social totality to understand how it is affected by crisis dynamics in other spheres and how it might contribute to attenuating, or resolving, these.

The 2025 World Happiness Report points to declining happiness and social trust to explain the rise in political polarization.

Policymakers and experts need to go beyond minimum standards and examine how urban spaces continue to exclude people with disabilities.

Educators are finding ways to help their students experience the mental and physical health benefits of awe.

The three systems of the brain involved in forgiveness can improve our well-being in other areas of life.

New research finds that COPs can help educators feel more confident in their teaching and more optimistic about impacting students.