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“We have a revenue crisis, and we know where the money is, it’s on Wall Street.”

A growing number of city workers, teachers, and other union workers can’t live here anymore.

Belafonte looked out at the crowded room of pacifists, many of whom are no longer young and said, “Keep on singing.”

It's not unheard of for surgery residents to work for more than a day and a half straight.

Tens of thousands of workers at industrial estates across Indonesia walked off their jobs on Oct 28 at the start of week-long protests to demand average wage increases of 50 per cent next year, citing rising living costs.

One year on, it's painfully clear that society's choices mean the hurricane hit our poorest communities harder than the well-to-do.

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The fact that the first round of talks on Oct.15 was hailed by Iran and the P5+1 as “positive” has energized opponents of the negotiations, who are moving to block any attempts at softening international sanctions against Teheran, while at the same time pressing for a military solution to the conflict.

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has rejected a group's bus ad showing Israel's expropriation of Palestinian land over time, claiming the ad could incite anti-Jewish discrimination and violence. The centerpiece is a series of four maps that show the loss of control of Palestinian land to the Zionist movement and Israel between 1946 and the present. The ad also states: “This is unfair. It is also illegal under international law.”

Book Review of "Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination," by Alondra Nelson, University of Minnesota Press, $18.95 paperback, 289 pages.