Deepa Mehta’s latest film, Funny Boy, is a queer coming-of-age story set in the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Based on Shyam Selvadurai’s…
On February 24 the parliament voted down, by 295 to 32, NDP Peter Julian’s bill C-213 that would have been the first step towards a…
March 20, 2021 marks one-year since the first prisoner contracted COVID-19 in Ontario. Since the first positive case was diagnosed, prisons and jails across Canada have been the site of a deepening crisis in human rights and healthcare.
In response to community calls to defund police and fund necessary social resources, cities across the country have instituted “layered policing.” From Lethbridge to Saskatoon…
This week marks 12 months since the COVID-19 crisis hit Canada. Along with the rest of the world, day-to-day life in Canada was dramatically upended. …
On the morning of March 10, Uber Canada announced a proposal to Canadian provincial governments to provide worker benefits to couriers while maintaining the “flexibility”…
The psychological fallout of COVID-19 is a haunting, collective trauma. Remember during the early days of quarantine, we thought society would be flushed with COVID-related…
In January 2020, four of Ontario’s major teachers and education workers unions took job action against Ford’s government’s cuts to public education. The strikes gained…
On March 8, 1950, Claudia Jones—a leading member of the Communist Party of the US—delivered a speech on International Women’s Day, which was subsequently published…
In an interview with Prateek Vats, the director of the recently-released Hindi movie Eeb Allay Ooo!, he expresses an anxiety about the depoliticization of films…
The vote on Bill 239 reflected the current balance of forces in Ontario, where after years of campaigning the Ontario Conservatives are now isolated in their opposition to paid sick days.
Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown gather in the aftermath of Ali winning the Heavyweight title in early 1964, about to embark…
