| | | Good morning, Passengers.
Today, we have the latest issue of Class Struggle, some reporting on an important development on something I wrote about early last year and a movie recommendation.
Monday is a holiday, so I’ll be back in touch on Tuesday. Enjoy your long weekends! | | | Adam D.K. King | Passage | October 7 | Adam’s latest issue of Class Struggle explores a new report released by Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office, which focuses on “recent trends in public sector employment and compensation in the province.” This issue is packed with details, but in short, it centres on how the many measures Ontario Premier Doug Ford has taken to cut costs are coming at our expense, in one form or another. This is a newsletter just for members, so if you’re not signed up to get those emails, make sure you’re logged into your account when you go to read it on our site.
Adam writes, “Ford’s supposed cost-savings are being paid for by Ontarians who can’t get the health care they need or who must send their kids into overcrowded and underserved classrooms. By holding down the wages of public sector union members, Ford’s government is driving nurses, teachers and educational support staff out of their professions and delivering understaffed and under-resourced services to the broader public.” (8 minute read) | | | Bianca Mugyenyi | Rabble | October 5 | In February 2021, I wrote about a legal campaign being launched in an attempt to get the RCMP to investigate allegations that several groups in Canada were illegally recruiting Canadians citizens for Israel’s army. I went into a good amount of detail on the campaign, so it’s worth a read if you haven’t come across it before. Last week, we got a major update: one group accused of this conduct has had charges laid against it, and the matter is going to court. This short article at Rabble will get you up to speed with what’s going on. I may end up writing about this later on, too. (3 minute read) | | | Remi Weekes | Letterboxd | 2020 | While the ‘is it a monster or is it just trauma/mental illness’ trope has gotten a bit worn out in horror over the past decade, the genre still serves as an incredible means of exploring personal and political issues. For better or worse, horror often functions both as a barometer of what people in society are scared of at the time, or a means to offer commentary on an issue in a visceral way. In the best cases, it does both. This movie from a couple years ago is a pretty good example of how it can be done. It’s not my favourite of all time or anything, but it’s worth a watch if you haven’t come across it before.
Here’s the description from Letterboxd: “After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.” (93 minute watch) | | | | Previous Digest Editions - October 6 | Ignoring murder, Mahsa Amini and Muslim women, the Quebec election - Read here
- October 5 | MPs and the housing crisis, Legault’s unearned majority, cancelled for criticizing Israel - Read here
- October 4 | Losing money to the ultra rich, nuclear war, the CAQ - Read here
- October 3 | Interspecies solidarity, undermining daycare, social solidarity for exclusion, a coup in Brazil? - Read here
- September 29 | Deleting Palestine, taking Canada to court, xenophobia and horror - Read here
- September 28 | The curse of renters, city councils and police budgets, the Labour files - Read here
- September 27 | Vacancy control, hurricanes, the far right in Italy - Read here
- September 26 | Dental care, fossil fuel execs, gentrification, teachers under attack - Read here
- September 23 | Poilievre and the central bank, hobbits and the far right, The Wailing - Read here
- September 22 | Real estate and MPs, femicide, Russia and Ukraine - Read here
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