Katie Toth

Thirty-two-year-old Rebecca Faria first learned the meaning of street harassment when she was about 10. “I was walking down the street with my mom,” she remembers, when someone leaned out of his car to call her mother a “Paki bitch.” Fast forward to 2011. Faria created Hollaback! HRM, a local website and Twitter account that […]

What once looked like a solitary stand-off between angry baristas and an incompetent employer has become a tidal wave of Halifax cafe workers demanding workplace regulation. After the successful union effort at Just Us! Spring Garden in June, employees at two Second Cup franchises have begun organizing their own workplaces. The long-term goal, explains Service […]

Feminist activist Stephanie Guthrie has devoted much of her work to ending revenge pornography. Now, she’s concerned about a private member’s bill that could make spreading intimate images without the subject’s consent illegal. “Sexual crimes tend to be undercharged, underprosecuted, underconvicted,” says the faculty member of Toronto’s Academy of the Impossible. “[But] we can’t just […]

“I don’t really understand this whole thing,” Debra Moore says when asked about ongoing negotiations between Just Us! Coffee and the Service Employees International Union. “The unions would know the process better than I do.” After two baristas were allegedly dismissed from the roastery and cafe chain for unionizing, labour activists continue pressuring the company […]