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Canadian Labor Activists Chart a Path Forward

A message from the Portside Moderators.

Over 1 in 10 US jobs is in retail trade. The notion that these workers are mostly young, lazy and unskilled is false.

Pope Francis makes it clear in his Apostolic Exhortation "EVANGELII GAUDIUM" that he shares little in common with U.S. conservatives.

Three reviews of the film 'The Hunger Games' based on the third book in the popular series by Suzanne Collins.

"There are always going to be menial jobs, but we can make them better or worse. And it seems to me the demands of efficiency at the cost of individual's health and wellbeing - it's got to be balanced." - Prof Michael Marmot

UN, humanitarian groups warn of spiraling crisis in the Central African Republic.

Native American Books that Tell the Real Thanksgiving Story; Wampanoags to March First at Plymouth; Dallas Kennedy-Haters Documented in Pictures; Black Theatre Groups in Trouble; We Are Living in the Anthropocene Era, can't You Tell?