My heart celebrated when I read that the Minneapolis city council had committed to fully defunding their police and, more recently, the city of Hamilton…
Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s. Protests erupted in every major city…
Last month, the people of Barrie – a city of about 150,000 people located on the shores of Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto – witnessed…
On Monday, June 29 Toronto city council rejected a modest 10 percent cut to the Toronto Police Service’s budget, and voted to increase police power…
On Sunday, June 28, thousands of people came together to attend Abolish Police in Canada, a rally demanding the abolition of the police, starting with…
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…
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…
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…
