The Latest

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  Magazine

  Great Manitoba

  by Owen Toews – 31 min read

  The massive fraud at The Pas is a modest entry in the annals of Canadian racial capitalism. In light of the town’s history of Cree and Métis political action, it could be said that a quarter-billion dollars were stolen out of the mouths of children, from over the heads of families, from people seeking meaningful work in the prime of life.

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  Sask Dispatch

  “A culture of perpetration”: what’s behind sexual violence in Saskatchewan

  by Sara Birrell – 9 min read

  Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan released an in-depth report on sexual violence in the province. The report has been three years in the making, and it provides insights into the nature and the cause of sexual violence in Saskatchewan.

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  Online-only

  TD Scholars ask TD to cut ties with Coastal GasLink pipeline

  by Recipients of the TD Scholarship for Community Leadership – 4 min read

  In this open letter, 33 recipients of TD’s Scholarship for Community Leadership ask that TD withdraw its support for the pipeline, which violates Wet’suwet’en sovereignty

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  Online-only

  COVID-19 and the threat of “community policing”

  by Fitsum Areguy – 7 min read

  Across the country, governments are giving police heightened powers during the pandemic. But as I’ve seen in my home of Kitchener-Waterloo, when police embed themselves in poor and racialized communities, they may simply decide not to leave.