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Rallies across Canada call for justice for Abdirahman Abdi

On July 24, Abdirahman Abdi, a Black Muslim Somali man living with autism and mental illness, was beaten to death...more

Liberals continue Tory attack on civil liberties

In May, a Federal Court Justice ruled the National Security Certificate against Mahmoud Jaballah to be unreasonable, almost 20 years...more

The World Social Forum built solidarity across Canada, Quebec and the world

The World Social Forum (WSF) brought thousands of activists to Montreal in early August. The event started in Porto Allegre,...more

The ABCs of Socialism is a good introduction to some questions but leaves out others

Book review: The ABCs of Socialism , Edited by Bhaskar Sunkara, Illustrated by Phil Wrigglesworth, Verso Books, 2016 The ABCs...more

A book inspired by the short but remarkable life of Shannen Koostachin in Attawapiskat

Review of Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada’s Lost Promise and One Girl’s Dream by Charlie Angus. University of Regina...more

Dissent and marches at the DNC were not shown on TV.

Held in the Wells Fargo Centre in downtown Philadelphia, the Democratic National Convention peaked with the foreseen coronation of their...more

Vancouver area instructors fight for a living wage

Instructors at two Vancouver area colleges are battling corporate greed in a fight for fair wages, and control over their...more

Trudeau claims to support a nation-to-nation relationship, but he is letting a Canadian corporation develop on unceded Alngonquin land

On May 10, 2016 Liberal Minister of Indigenous Affairs Carolyn Bennett announced that Canada would adopt the United Nations Declaration...more

A military coup and an authoritarian elected government are not the same thing

Turkey is an interesting country. In a place that, together with the 15 July coup attempt, has experienced five serious...more

Hundreds joined the vigil for Abdirahman Abdi after the police executed him in the streets

Those were the words written on a restaurant chalkboard in the Ottawa neighbourhood of Hintonburg on the evening of Tuesday...more