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“Land Back” is more than the sum of its parts
When we say “Land Back” we want the system that is land to be alive so that it can perpetuate itself, and perpetuate us as an extension of itself. That’s what we want back: our place in keeping land alive and spiritually connected.
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Back 2 the Land: 2Land 2Furious
Molly Swain and Chelsea Vowel of Métis in Space discuss Métis futurisms and how they started their Land Back project.
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How Honda’s anti-union monitor works
At a manufacturing plant in Ontario, Honda management maps out vulnerable “hot spots” on the shop floor as part of an effort to stop its workers from unionizing.
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The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
The CPC’s image may be radical, but its politics are tired Stalinist reformism
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Community without accountability at CCGSD
Former staff are raising allegations against the former executive director at one of Canada’s biggest LGBTQ nonprofits, saying he made the workplace unpredictable and unhealthy. It raises the question: where does a community end, and a workplace begin?
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Mental health professionals are not the solution to racist police violence
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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Why a progressive buyer should go for Torstar
The second-largest chain of newspapers in Canada is about to be bought by a couple Conservative-donor businessmen. It’s time for progressive groups and individuals to make a bid for Torstar.
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Police across Canada test out military equipment at private supplier ‘range day’
Experts say rising police militarization is a consequence of mixing police and military vendors at equipment expos
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Invested in crisis
Pension funds control billions of dollars of workers’ money. But when pension funds are invested in real estate, are they really working for workers?
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Decolonizing ecology
From traditional fishing technologies to bringing back the bison, Indigenous ecological practices are our best bet to save the planet – and ourselves
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Prison unionism
How a public-sector union became the leading advocate of jail-building in Manitoba – and laid the foundation for the province’s incarceration disaster.
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What do we do when humanitarians are the disaster?
#AidToo is exposing abuses of power at aid organizations. Two stories from Canadian NGOs show what it takes to blow the whistle, and how the industry responds to accusations.
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Breaking the cycle of harm
To avoid police and prisons, more leftists are turning to accountability processes to repair harm. But fractious accountability processes are tearing communities apart. How might returning to transformative justice’s Black feminist roots help break the cycle?
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A world of many worlds
Is the idea of Indigenous sovereignty really in conflict with the well-being of migrant communities? A review of “Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.”
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Feminism against resource extraction
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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“Defund the police” means “defund the police”
It’s a demand that’s easy to understand and easy to fight for, which is important because we’ll need a lot of people to help us win it.
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It’s time to talk about police in our unions
Toward an abolitionist approach to decent work for all
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Beaver Lake Cree stand strong as Canada and Alberta attempt to derail tarsands legal challenge
In appealing a court order to pay two-thirds of the cost of the legal challenge, Canada and Alberta went as far as to argue that, because they were recently able to repair the community water truck, Beaver Lake Cree are able to afford a multi-million dollar trial.
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As millions suffer from the pandemic, who’s getting rich?
Who’s making bank off COVID-19, and who’s fighting back? A summary of Resource Movement and Briarpatch’s webinar, “Pandemic Profiteers & the Movements Trying to Stop Them”