She showed me a picture of a billboard that had been put all over the city. It was an ad for an AI program called “Ava” that read “Stop hiring humans”.

We met up the next day after he had read our DSA and Kashmir articles, and he told me our perspectives were like a “breath of fresh air”.

At the end of the conversation, the first girl said, “I feel like I’ve learned more in this conversation than I have in the last 5 years,” and eagerly bought a paper.

Hundreds of students came to see us, actively seeking answers to their questions; one even approached us saying, “Bless me,” when she saw our table.

A mother of two explained how she had worked at a factory for 20+ years, which had closed its doors to move to the States because of the trade war.

Indeed, the banks are doing well precisely because the rest of us are not.

As capitalism faces a crisis, paying rent is becoming increasingly difficult, while tenants’ rights have been eroded over the years.

They said that now they have people asking why they weren’t offered the same $2 raise, and that I was “creating chaos” in the workplace.

A relatively clean-cut gentleman from New Brunswick asked me for a spare cigarette outside a train platform. He said that he came here for work in construction, but “…now that all the homes are built for the summer, I’m out of a job.” In his home town, he’d often wait inside Tim Hortons in the […]

By the end of my shift I looked like a coal miner, covered head to toe in black ash.