May/June 2016

Five young Black folks speak to the challenges and strategies for building and sustaining the Black liberation movement.

If we were to place the stories of the Black Lives Matter Toronto resistance and the Panama Papers leak in a Venn diagram, the overlapping space would highlight that capital depends on white supremacy and the justification of racism.

What happens when students in Newfoundland and Labrador frame accessible education as a greater political good?

When the correctional system dictates inmates’ access to health care, the moral policing of addictions in combination with systemic racism creates a lethal environment in remand.

Ableist narratives have made it impossible to imagine folks with disabilities having healthy, happy lives enriched by something as ordinary as getting a dog.

In the face of federal fiscal abandonment, community-based housing providers in Winnipeg are working to support low-income tenants.

An interview with Lliam Hildebrand of Iron & Earth.

The National Energy Board is the regulatory body that determines whether (and which) pipelines will pump bitumen across Canada. As an extension of a colonial project that violates Indigenous land and consent, the NEB is up against Indigenous women and their allies leading the fight against pipelines.

The forestry model conventionally pursued by the Canadian forestry industry has long been battering community economies, trampling Indigenous rights, and damaging forestry ecosystems, all the while empowered by colonial and capitalist legislative frameworks. Sustainable forest management is gaining traction as allied forestry workers, grassroots environmentalists, and First Nations create new models of forestry.

White supremacy continues to permeate feminist organizing in Canada.