About 24,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in Toronto – which includes workers in child care, public health, emergency services, garbage and recycling, social services, planning, permits, inspections, water and sewage treatment, parks and recreation, and animal services – enter the 27th day of their strike for a new contract today.
Medical students in India gave up their protest and fast, which led to more than 30 hunger strikers being hospitalized over the last two weeks, yesterday afternoon after Health Department officials assured them that their demands for increased stipend would be met.
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Defying a media blackout and severe backlash, Tibetan monks, nuns and residents of a threatened mountain community are showing the world their resistance to a Chinese dam.
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