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Camped out for Justice
Colten Boushie. Tina Fontaine. Countless others. “Something’s gotta change. Something more than fake promises and words.”
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A Thousand More Beds
The homeless shelter system in Canada’s largest city is in crisis – but anti-poverty and housing activists are fighting the systemic abandonment of homeless people, and they’re winning important gains.
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The Honduran Election Crisis
Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.
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Young Muslims and the Federal Election
As the federal election approaches, young Muslim Canadians are leading new initiatives to engage with electoral politics.
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The Responsibility to Act: An interview with Maude Barlow
Maude Barlow stresses the need for broad mobilization from below in addition to voting to defeat the Harper government this fall.
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“To Take the Land Away From the Children”
The Klabona Keepers are a small group of Tahltan families and Elders in northwestern B.C. who have been taking direct action to defend their traditional territories from mining and drilling projects since 2005.
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Daniel Ortega and the Interoceanic Grand Canal
A planned megaproject that would dwarf the Panama Canal and split Nicaragua in two reveals much about both the Ortega regime and global capitalism today.
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The Struggle for Access to Abortion Today
Abortion is a safe, legal, and common medical procedure, but in the Maritimes and in northern and rural communities across Canada, there are major barriers to access.
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Drug War Capitalism
Anyone seeking to understand capitalism’s evolving capacity to consolidate and extend its power must come to terms with the drug war.
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Standing up for Medicare: An interview with Harry Leslie Smith
Harry Leslie Smith lived through the Great Depression and WWII and he’s touring across Canada asking people to stand up for socialized medicine.
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Beyond Holding Your Nose
What a politician is willing to do is never as important as what we can do together when we organize.
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Regulatory Snarls for Small-scale Farmers
Consumers and foodies are clamouring for ethical local foods, but some farmers are in a pickle just trying to get their goods to market.
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A note to Alberta’s grassroots about NDP governments
Alberta’s grassroots must carve out critical distance from the NDP.
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Election Day in Alberta – and Beyond
Electoral politics and grassroots movement building are often at odds; significant change in Alberta will hinge on independent organizing.
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Harperism: Think Tanks, Media, and the Conventional Wisdom
On Canada’s neoliberal nexus of think tanks, media, and government.
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Stolen Sisters, Sex Workers, and Conservative Saviours
The Conservative government’s rhetoric on missing and murdered Indigenous women and sex workers creates victims in order to silence women.
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What is to be done about the Ontario NDP?
Evaluating the provincial election and what’s next for Ontario’s left.
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The Peoples’ Social Forum
What is the historic gathering of activists and organizers meant to achieve?
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The scandal of immigration detention
The injustice of immigration detention is a national disgrace.