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🌾 Journalist covering Labour and the Prairies for @PressProgress. ↗️ Subscribe to my free weekly national labour newsletter, Shift Work ⬇️
Nov 20, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
Breaking: Pro-Palestine protesters have blocked the CN railway in Winnipeg demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. Two trains are currently stopped.

CN has a partnership with Israel's largest shipping company, ZIM.

#mbpoli #cdnpoli #CeasefireNowInGaza Image Winnipeg protesters say that by blocking CN Rail they are disrupting CN's partnership with Israeli shipping company ZIM, a company also targeted by BDS campaigns.

#mbpoli #cdnpoli #wpgpoli #ceasefirenow Image
Nov 7, 2022 21 tweets 8 min read
CUPE National President Mark Hancock in front of a massive group of public and private sector labour leaders announcing Doug Ford will rescind Bill 28. #onpoli OSBCU President Laura Walton says they have confirmed Doug Ford will repeal Bill 28 in its entirety. Says they will collapse picket lines as a sign of good faith and return to bargaining table. #onpoli
Jun 10, 2022 8 tweets 6 min read
My latest for @pressprogress:

Manitoba gov't gave $50 million worth of COVID-19 emergency contracts to a group of companies linked to a secretive religious sect.

A number of the companies operate out of the same building near Wpg’s airport.

pressprogress.ca/manitoba-gover… #mbpoli BC based oil company Klondike Lubricants, whose founders are members of the Plymouth Brethren, received a $2 million PPE contract from the Ontario gov't in addition to a 70k contract in Manitoba. #mbpoli #onpoli

pressprogress.ca/doug-fords-gov…
Nov 29, 2020 28 tweets 16 min read
Bored right now so I present to you: Celine Dion as Canadian trade unions.

Celine Dion as the Canadian Union of Public Employees. @cupenat Celine Dion as the Service Employees International Union. @PurpleWorksSEIU