One year after the first prisoner tested positive for COVID-19 at Toronto South Detention Centre, the Abolition Coalition—a national partnership of prison advocacy organizations—organized rallies…
On March 17, a white man perpetrated a horrific attack on Asian women working in massage parlours, leaving eight dead. The murders shocked many and…
Climate change and systemic racism are two heads of the same colonial coin that is the Canadian state. To tackle climate change, we must also address the racism that our structures are built from.
“Workingmen’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart…
On March 12 Peel Public Health ordered Amazon to close its Brampton facility for two weeks and its workers to self-isolate for 14 days after…
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…
