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Everyone Hates Airlines, Especially the Workers Set To Strike

Adam D. K. King Jacobin
The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike.

Designing a Wealth Tax for Today’s Robber Barons

Alex Hemingway Jacobin
A proposed wealth tax on Canada’s richest 0.6% could raise hundreds of billions of dollars — enough to tackle housing, transit, and care. The sheer scale of what a tiny slice of billionaire wealth could fund is staggering.

Why the Canada Post Strike Is Not Just a ‘Labour Dispute’

Rhea Rollmann The Independent
The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.
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