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City of the Setting Sun

A campaign aims to bring down the Toronto Sun by urging a boycott of companies that advertise in the paper.

Will you refuse to eat a Subway sandwich because those deliciously cheap “Sub of the Day” deals are advertised in the Toronto Sun? Justin Beach will. He’s the organizer behind Operation Sunset, a campaign to stop companies from advertising in that paper. “Going through advertisers is the only way to have an impact on a [...]

The People / United / Will Sometimes Be Defeated

CUPE Ontario’s university workers are now officially like the awkward kid no one wants to play with at recess. As we reported earlier, that branch of the union passed a motion a few days ago calling for an academic boycott “aimed at Ontario universities and any institutional connections pertaining to research that help the military [...]

I Am CUPE, Hear Me Roar

CUPE members taking part in a protest against Israeli military attacks on Gaza; photo by Medmoiselle T. In a startling and uncharacteristic move, CUPE Ontario has done something controversial. Even more unexpectedly, they’ve gone about it in controversial fashion. The segment of the union which represents university workers passed a motion this weekend, calling for [...]