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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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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”
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Disarming the people without disarming the state
When you factor in the long history of Black people, Indigenous people, and people of colour using guns to defend their communities against police, the military, and white supremacists, gun regulation takes on a different meaning.
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COVID-19 is raging through Quebec prisons
Prisoners are locked in their cells 24 hours a day, with no running water and guards who refuse to wear PPE. Some are comparing federal prisons, where populations are older, to long-term care homes, the site of the province’s most severe outbreaks.
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Collective action is essential
From socially-distanced protests to virtual union drives, five vital signs of worker organizing during COVID-19
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TD Scholars ask TD to cut ties with Coastal GasLink pipeline
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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Gord Hill’s anti-colonial, anti-fascist comics
A collection of comics by Gord Hill, a Kwakwaka’wakw artist, writer, and anti-capitalist, published in print issues of Briarpatch from 2018-2020
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Transcript of Briarpatch’s “Covid-19, Recession, & the Future” webinar
A full transcript of Briarpatch’s webinar with David McNally, Isaac Murdoch, Nandita Sharma, John Clarke, and David Camfield on the global COVID-19 and economic crises.
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COVID-19 and the threat of “community policing”
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.
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“It’s a crisis of legitimacy for the capitalist system itself”
Briarpatch hosted a discussion between David McNally, Isaac Murdoch, Nandita Sharma, John Clarke, and David Camfield on the global COVID-19 and economic crises. Here are the key take-aways.
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Khalil Abu Yahia: Dispatch from Palestine on COVID-19
“If you don’t put the maximum pressure on Israel to lift the siege right now, Gaza will become a graveyard.” Khalil Abu Yahia, a 24 year-old English teacher in Gaza City, reflects on life under the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Asmaa Tayeh: Dispatch from Palestine on COVID-19
“We don’t have the capacity or equipment to keep us safe from this virus. It will spread very easily, and we will start to see the numbers here that we’ve been seeing in Italy and Spain.” Asmaa Tayeh, living in the Jabalia Refugee Camp in the north of the Gaza strip, reflects on life under the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Seven key learnings from the MMIWG legal analysis on genocide
In June, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) concluded that Canada had committed genocide against Indigenous peoples. Algonquin Anishinaabe scholar Lynn Gehl summarizes her key learnings from the report’s legal analysis of genocide.
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IWW members are transforming Montreal’s community sector
Since a team of workers took over the STTIC’s executive board a year ago, they’ve been making the union more democratic and militant, following the model of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Teck is dead. What’s next?
Activists are calling the current moment of Indigenous land defense a “paradigm shift.” But does it signal a death knell for Canada’s oil and gas industry?
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Oshawa could be the engine of a Green New Deal in Canada
Workers want to nationalize the General Motors plant and build electric vehicles for Canada Post