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On memory, erasure and the commercialization of Toronto’s underground scene.

The best of everything is made right here in Ontario. From cars, cosmetics, clothing, cookies, and more, there’s thousands of products to explore.

The creator of the original Windows Task Manager has returned with an updated version, and it probably doesn't look anything like what you think. The big problem? Task Manager OG is currently only available for macOS, with Windows support coming soon. Here's what it looks like and why you might want to test it out.

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

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Here’s the translation of the speech of one of the dockworker’s leaders in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla. “I want this to be clear to everyone &#…

Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City, a new crop of socialist candidates is campaigning for municipal power across Canada.

The ecological crisis is often presented as a conflict between “humanity” and “nature.” But this abstraction hides the real structure of destruction: a social order that turns the living world into profit, exhausts both workers and the earth, and then asks individuals to repair the damage through better consumption. Ecology becomes serious only when it confronts the power that organizes land, labor, energy and life around endless accumulation. Without class struggle, environmentalism remains a beautiful garden surrounded by fire. Full essay on The Ecosocialist.

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Netanyahu’s government is using anti-Muslim fear to rally a Western right increasingly receptive to its message.

An anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist podcast.

Signs point to potential for early Canadian access to new endometriosis diagnostics and male contraceptives

For years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise.

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This is one of the most helpful articles I have read in a long time. It challenges traditional thinking on many levels. She stretches me to rethink how I’ve built and rebuilt my life.

Tackling Interoception & Alexithymia through systems & minimal viable days

Telling an autistic person with alexithymia to “listen to their body” is like telling someone with a broken fuel gauge to “just feel when the car needs gas.”

Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to increased scholarly attention to an important ‘human need’: good health. This article is about the relation between wor...

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Our economic system doesn't just organize our society. It shapes our psychology as well.

The US wasn’t remade according to abolitionist or socialist movement demands. Now fascists wield the machinery of power.

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Wrestling with thoughts about her parents’ mortality, a writer runs through her own life cycle at Thailand's Death Awareness Cafe.

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