Residential schools entrenched neglect, forced labour, physical assault, and sexual abuse–unleashing cycles of trauma that Indigenous communities still endure today.
The people of Grassy Narrows have been fighting for mercury justice since 1970, and their struggles have informed and inspired anti-colonial and environmental justice organizing…
Half a century ago, I helped in publication of Richard Fidler’s pamphlet Red Power in Canada, published in 1970 by the League for Socialist Action. It included…
On October 9, about 200 people rallied and marched in Toronto to support the land defenders whose campaign is #1492landback. The event was part of…
This is a key moment, and we must let both TC Energy and the Wet’suwet’en know the whole world is watching.
As a long-overdue conversation occurs nationally and globally on the persistent and systemic nature of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism within our societies, we know all…
Content Warning: Racism, Racist Remarks, Colonial Violence I want to start off by saying that I myself am a white settler. I have had the…
What would a world free from systemic racism and colonization look like? This is the question that Erica Violet Lee asked as Idle No More…
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…
Through the continued effects of genocide and colonization on Indigenous populations, and of the transatlantic slave trade and its resulting oppression of Black populations, Black…
Spring Magazine had the honour of interviewing respected Elder and past Chief Myeengun Henry of the Deshkaan Ziibi First Nation (Chippewas of the Thames First…
In a press conference on Friday, February 21 Prime Minister Trudeau called for the dismantlement of the rail blockades in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en and the…
