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WE is actually we
The cascade of scandals attached to Craig and Marc Kielburger’s WE Charity has legs for the most fundamental reason: WE is a beast that only a country like Canada could create.
by Nora Loreto – 10 min read
“We have buried too many”: A Q&A with Tristen Durocher
by Sara Birrell – 7 min read
Durocher, a 24-year-old Métis fiddler, has walked from Air Ronge to begin a hunger strike on the lawn of the Saskatchewan Legislature, demanding resources for suicide prevention.
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The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
by David Camfield – 7 min read
The CPC’s image may be radical, but its politics are tired Stalinist reformism
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Feminism against resource extraction
by Nisha Eswaran – 4 min read
By remaining silent during the invasion of Wet’suwet’en land, settler feminists in Canada have risked both complicity in this violence and irrelevance in a women’s movement that is global in scope.

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Sask Dispatch
“A symbolic step”: group calls on city of Regina to rename Dewdney Avenue

by Sara Birrell – 7 min read
As Indian Commissioner and lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, Edgar Dewdney left a legacy of colonial violence and trauma on the Prairies. Now some have joined together in a campaign to remove his name from one of Regina’s busiest streets.
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Mental health professionals are not the solution to racist police violence

by Edward Hon-Sing Wong – 6 min read
While mental health interventions have been touted as an alternative to policing, the mental health field has a long history of perpetrating racist and colonial violence.
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It’s time to talk about police in our unions

by Ryan Hayes – 10 min read
Toward an abolitionist approach to decent work for all
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Police across Canada test out military equipment at private supplier ‘range day’

by Mitchell Thompson – 7 min read
Experts say rising police militarization is a consequence of mixing police and military vendors at equipment expos

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July/August 2020

How a public-sector union became the biggest cheerleader for jail-building in Manitoba; three case studies on Indigenous ecological practices; pension funds' investment in the housing crisis; abuse at humanitarian aid organizations; transformative justice; the false conflict between Indigenous sovereignty and migrant justice; and more.

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