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1 week ago | 
popularresistance.org | Tom Sandborn
Above photo: COPE candidate Sean Orr successfully secured the most votes in Vancouver’s 2025 by-election. COPE / Facebook. Solidarity has always been key to workers’ struggles. And even in today’s era of rising fascism and anti-worker rhetoric, it remains a powerful force for change. They say that if we fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it. Recent events in my hometown of Vancouver and across North America call this warning to mind today.
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2 weeks ago | 
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
In the 19th century, the spectre haunting Europe was communism, or so Marx argued. In our century, a new spectre is as globalized as the economy, and its name is toxic masculinity. As a filthy, tang-coloured ooze of neo-fascism spreads over the globe, it brings with it a new popularity for online cults of toxic masculinity, resentful incels, armed militias and leaders who champion a hard bodied, hard hearted version of masculinity, violent and brutal.
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2 weeks ago | 
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
They say that if we fail to learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat it. Recent events in my hometown of Vancouver and across North America call this warning to mind today.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetyee.ca | Tom Sandborn
The Passenger Seat
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Biblioasis (2025) Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners The Tyee is Hiring a Director of Operations Come join our growing non-profit newsroom. Apply by April 12 Owning Up
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Mulholland Books (2024) Growing up in the United States mid-century, I was exposed to a lot of bad lessons about what it meant to be a real man.
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4 weeks ago | 
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
For many millennia, the anguished and rugged liminal geography that Coll Thrush examines in his brilliant new book, Wrecked, (the Pacific coastline from what is now called British Columbia south to Coos Bay in southern Oregon,) was the traditional territory of a number of Indigenous nations, including the Tla-O-Qui-Aht, the Makah, the Chehailis, the Chinook and the Siuslaw.
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1 month ago | 
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
If you are as old as this rapidly aging columnist, you may remember Lily Tomlin’s classic TV comedy routine as Ernestine the telephone operator and its iconic closing line- “We’re the telephone company, snort. We don’t have to care.” Some days it seems that Telus Corporation, the Vancouver based multinational telecommunications giant, has adopted Ernestine’s slogan to guide not only its customer service but also its labour relations policy.
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2 months ago | 
vancouversun.com | Tom Sandborn
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article contentArticle contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. Article contentDavid Geselbracht | Douglas & McIntyreArticle contentArticle content$24.95 | 248pp.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
rabble.ca | Tom Sandborn
A two-decade old rupture in the American labour movement was partially healed in the first week of the new year, as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced its reaffiliation with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the national umbrella organization of American unions it left in 2005.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
vancouversun.com | Tom Sandborn
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article contentArticle contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. Article contentThomas F. Pederson | Harbour PublishingArticle contentArticle content$26.95 | 256pp.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
vancouversun.com | Tom Sandborn
Advertisement 1This book is an impressive human document, blending history and psychology, politics, and passion. • • You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article contentArticle contentWe apologize, but this video has failed to load.
