Tag: Government

Colten Boushie. Tina Fontaine. Countless others. “Something’s gotta change. Something more than fake promises and words.”

The homeless shelter system in Canada’s largest city is in crisis – but anti-poverty and housing activists are fighting the systemic abandonment of homeless people, and they’re winning important gains.

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.

As the federal election approaches, young Muslim Canadians are leading new initiatives to engage with electoral politics.

On the combined impacts of bills C-51 and C-24.

Maude Barlow stresses the need for broad mobilization from below in addition to voting to defeat the Harper government this fall.

The Klabona Keepers are a small group of Tahltan families and Elders in northwestern B.C. who have been taking direct action to defend their traditional territories from mining and drilling projects since 2005.

A planned megaproject that would dwarf the Panama Canal and split Nicaragua in two reveals much about both the Ortega regime and global capitalism today.

Abortion is a safe, legal, and common medical procedure, but in the Maritimes and in northern and rural communities across Canada, there are major barriers to access.

Anyone seeking to understand capitalism’s evolving capacity to consolidate and extend its power must come to terms with the drug war.

Harry Leslie Smith lived through the Great Depression and WWII and he’s touring across Canada asking people to stand up for socialized medicine.

What a politician is willing to do is never as important as what we can do together when we organize.

Consumers and foodies are clamouring for ethical local foods, but some farmers are in a pickle just trying to get their goods to market.

Alberta’s grassroots must carve out critical distance from the NDP.

Electoral politics and grassroots movement building are often at odds; significant change in Alberta will hinge on independent organizing.

On Canada’s neoliberal nexus of think tanks, media, and government.

The Conservative government’s rhetoric on missing and murdered Indigenous women and sex workers creates victims in order to silence women.

Evaluating the provincial election and what’s next for Ontario’s left.

What is the historic gathering of activists and organizers meant to achieve?

The injustice of immigration detention is a national disgrace.