On June 10, the federal government tabled a new piece of legislation that includes measures tightening the requirements for receiving the new Canada Emergency Response…
Across Turtle Island, uprisings against police violence have given power to calls to defund and abolish the police. No longer able to sweep police conduct…
As an essential grocery store worker, it was heart-wrenching when my company ended pandemic pay while the risk and the pandemic is still going on….
A movement led by Black and racialized students forced the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board to remove police from schools. Around 5pm on Monday, hundreds…
Ejaz Ahmed Choudry was gunned down by police around 8 pm on Saturday after police arrived to perform a “wellness check.” Family and community members…
The police killing of George Floyd has unleashed street protests across the US, Canada and elsewhere. Thousands hit the streets of Toronto to march against…
Black Lives Matter-Toronto (BLMTO) mobilized an arts based direct action, stopping traffic at the intersection of Bay and College in front of Toronto Police headquarters…
Spring Magazine spoke with Jillian Primiano, a registered nurse from Brooklyn, about her experience as a front-line worker during COVID-19, the link between racism and…
In the days since Minneapolis police publicly lynched George Floyd in broad daylight, the Movement for Black Lives has blown the lid off democracy-as-usual. Hundreds…
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Verso, 2020). “At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the…
A few years ago, I was attending a black church in Toronto, and I took pride in attending a place of worship founded in the…
Within minutes of meeting Sarah at Toronto’s Workers’ Action Centre, she declared to me “I am a communist.” I thought to myself, “Well that saves…
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