Dave McKee
LATEST ARTICLES BY Dave McKee
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Labor
Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city
October 25, 2021October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...
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World
Dr. Norman Bethune and the Communists who fought for public healthcare in Canada
March 30, 2021Canadians see their public health system as what sets them apart from Americans, but too few know the story of the Communists who fought to win Medicare for All.
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Labor
Canadian labor union leadership has gone missing during the election
October 21, 2019Labor’s mass, extra-parliamentary political campaigning is too important to be left back in 1988.
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World
Game Workers Unite! Organizing to beat the video game bosses
August 29, 2019Lots of game workers know what unions are and what they’ve accomplished, but they tend to view that as something that happened in another time.
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Opinion
Why the sudden interest in the Uighurs of China’s Xinjiang region?
April 16, 2019The West’s interest in the Uighurs is a lot less about altruism and a lot more about its economic and political rivalry with China.
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World
Ontario Premier Doug Ford guts local democracy in favor of corporate interests
September 20, 2018A drive for corporate access and control is behind the move to cut Toronto’s city council in half and cancel regional elections.
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