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Nora Loreto

Nora Loreto is an activist based in Quebec City. She is the author of Take Back the Fight, Organizing Feminism in the Digital Age (2020) and From Demonized to Organized, Building the New Union Movement (2013).

Her latest book, Spin Doctors: How the Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 pandemic, is in stores and available to purchase online. The Montreal Gazette calls it “a comprehensive, impassioned and highly readable work that itemizes how a confluence of factors created a perfect storm of denial and unpreparedness.”

Nora is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media and a sought-after facilitator. She presents regularly on media relations, writing, editing, social media and online security and privacy.

Nora writes regularly for magazines, newspapers and online outlets. She speaks about social movement organizing, activism, the far right and many other topics. She co-hosts Sandy and Nora Talk Politics with Sandy Hudson.

Locally, Nora is involved in many solidarity and anti-Islamophobia movements.

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Nora's Latest Articles

Excerpt: Nora Loreto’s “The Social Safety Net”

In her latest book, Nora Loreto asks us to consider that maybe the system was expressly built to hollow out the state and fatten the pockets of the elite, leaving the rest of us to claw at each other for crumbs.

Canada's Betrayal of 60s Scoop Survivors

Some died in prison while waiting for their settlement while others saw their claims rejected on technicalities. Those who were compensated were forced to re-live their trauma again and again.

Yesterday's Man vs. The Freedom Fighter

In the campaign to elect the next Conservative leader, Tories are split between their fringe right wing and the party's dying Red flank.