While a city worker strike or lockout has – so far – failed to materialize, two Beach groups spent the last two weeks working together to make sure programming for adults with developmental disabilities wasn’t interrupted in the event a city-wide labour disruption closed community centre doors. Pegasus Community Project has long enjoyed a relationship […]
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Students talk sweatshops with designer
Fashion designer Sujeet Sennik had something to show Duke of Connaught students last month – a dusty T-shirt picked from the rubble of Rana Plaza, Bangladesh. Sennik left a design position at Walmart after the poorly built Rana Plaza factory collapsed in April, killing 1,129 workers. Walmart was linked to the factory by illegal subcontracts. […]