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Oil's Deep State

How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa.

Tori Ball

Tori Ball moved to Vancouver a year and a half ago from Kjipuktuk/ Halifax.

Fighting For Space

How A Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction

Capital City: Gentrification And The Real Estate State

Several years ago, my roommate and I were evicted from our small, ground-floor apartment in the west end of downtown Toronto.

Amlo's Contradiction

Mexico’s new president promised “the end of neoliberalism.” But as he forces through megaprojects and steamrolls over Indigenous dissent, activists are beginning to understand that anti-neoliberal doesn’t always mean anti-capitalist.

The Resurgence Of The Jewish Left In Canada

While antisemitic hate crimes increase in North America, there’s been a resurgence of the Jewish left – led by young people, rooted in solidarity with other marginalized communities, focused on ending the Israeli occupation, and held together by new articulations of Jewish community and ritual.

How Can Farmers Fight Back Against The New NAFTA?

NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union says the fight has to combine grassroots and policy advocacy.

Saving Akikodjiwan

Developers are building condos on top of sacred Algonquin Anishinabeg islands. Why are Indigenous sacred sites not given the same legal protections as settler ones?

Be Careful With Each Other

How activist groups can build trust, care, and sustainability in a world of capitalism and oppression

Something In The Water

The lasting violence of a Canadian mining giant in Guatemala

On This Patch Of Grass: City Parks On Occupied Land

In June 2018, six people at the Justice For Our Stolen Children Camp were arrested by Regina police.

Bodies On The Line

Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline replacement slices through the southern half of Saskatchewan, but there’s little Indigenous opposition in the province. To mount our own fight, we’ll have to learn from other Indigenous resistance efforts along the pipeline’s route.

For The Dreamers

In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

If Only They Knew What We Know Now

Excerpts From The Suitcase Project

“Azaadi”

Inside Indian-occupied Kashmir’s deadliest year in a decade

The City Vs. Big Tech

Activists kicked Amazon’s HQ2 out of New York City. They ran Google’s new campus out of Berlin. Now, in Toronto, #BlockSidewalk wants to send Google – and their new “smart city” packing. As the techlash is slowly becoming organized, the battle against Big Tech has emerged as the new front in the fight for the right to the city.

This Is A Prison, No Matter What You Call It

Activists are determined to halt the construction of a new migrant detention centre in Laval

Hate, By Any Other Name

Why would an anti-hate group condemn a Muslim organization for a third-hand connection to hate, while remaining silent about unabashed Islamophobia in a nonMuslim one?

'Fuck It, I'll Do It'

As we stare down a climate crisis and a hard-right political wave, women activists are setting out to transform electoral politics in Canada. But are the parties ready for them?

Revolutionary Dreamwork

“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”

Uprooted

Through the '60s, '70s, and '80s, the Canadian government took thousands of First Nations children from their families and placed them in white foster homes. I was one of them. Alienated from my language, culture, and community, I was taught to hate my people.Decades later, I am still learning to heal.

Colonial Courts & Settler Justice

Colten Boushie, Haven Dubois, and the two-tiered justice system

Silencing Opposition Of The Site C Dam

Protesters of the Site C dam in the Peace River Valley are facing a civil suit from bothBC Hydro and the B.C. government.

The Honduran Election Crisis

Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.

Pen Pal Solidarity

The Prisoner Correspondence Project connects LGBTQ2S inmates with pen pals on the outside.The relationships of care and empathy developed over years of exchanging letters are a form of radical solidarity that upends the control, surveillance, isolation, and erasure enforced by prisons.

Wolverine Hunt

Maxine’s great-grandmother, Ikuaalaaq, stands in the centre with her partner Atuat to her right. She stands with five of her eight children, from left to right: Kaludjak, Autut, Jack, Kiali, and Ulurksit. Missing from from the photo are three other children: Siksik, Timuti, and Leopold.

The Grunt Work Of Anti-fascism

Despite what the mainstream media likes to show, antifa isn’t all fighting and doxxing

The War On Boycotts

Jason Kenney is borrowing from Israel’s anti-BDS playbook to take down environmentalists who threaten Alberta’s oil industry.

Strike Surveillance

During the York University strike of 2018, workers on the picket line found themselves being watched

Making A Killing

Palestinian workers in illegal Israeli settlements are calling for BDS – even though it may mean they lose their jobs