Aug 5, 2018
A Mexican journalist's fight for asylum and a free press
Emilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas.
Civil Liberties Watch
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Aug 2, 2018  Rethinking the possible -- Going home to the U.S.Victoria Fenner To stay in Canada or go back home to the US is a question that Americans living in Canada sometimes ask themselves these politically volatile days. Here are one woman's reasons why she went back home. |
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Aug 2, 2018  In/Words magazine takes a look in the mirror at our post-truth worldClarissa Fortin The Ottawa literary magazine now raising funds to deliver new special issue called Dis(s)ent. |
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Jul 31, 2018  Love and spreadsheets: Kate McInturff in her own wordsKate McInturff The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative mourns the loss of feminist researcher and scholar Kate McInturff. |
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Jul 30, 2018  Hate and the 'Toronto Sun'Humberto DaSilva If you ever wondered what you would do if you lived in 1935 Germany, it’s an easy question to answer. Look at what you are doing today. |
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Jul 30, 2018  Hate and the 'Toronto Sun'Humberto DaSilva If you ever wondered what you would do if you lived in 1935 Germany, it’s an easy question to answer. Look at what you are doing today. |
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Jul 27, 2018  From Sweden to the U.S., resistance Is in the airAmy Goodman Denis Moynihan The Swedish government officials accompanying a refugee to Afghanistan tried to force Elin Ersson away from them. Turkish Airlines flight attendants tried to take her phone. But she persisted. |
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Jul 26, 2018  Health Coalition readies for major fight ahead as arch health care privateer appointed to head Doug Ford’s Fiscal ReviewFormer B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, just appointed to lead the fiscal inquiry in Ontario, is perhaps the biggest enemy of public health care in Canada. Health care advocates will stand against him |
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Jul 24, 2018  While tax rules today thwart democracy, tomorrow they could build itThe power of the tax system reaches deep into the conduct of politics. Not only do taxes fund government spending, tax rules empower some groups while disempowering others. |
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Jul 24, 2018  In the wake of another mass shooting in Toronto, we have to keep talking about male violenceMichael Laxer The next time you hear about someone wounding or killing five or 10 or 15 people in a community in Canada or the United States you won't even have to think about one aspect of it. |
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Jul 20, 2018  Charities now free to engage in non-partisan political activitiesThe Ontario Superior Court's decision this week was a huge relief to those many charities that suffered through Stephen Harper's politically motivated Canada Revenue Agency audits. |
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Jul 19, 2018  The fight to stop digital oligarchs and save net neutralityISP corporations are trying to control the internet, to restrict the free flow of information, to restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear. |
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Jul 18, 2018  Ontario fightback: Lessons from organizing workshops across OntarioMaya Bhullar In the wake of the recent Ontario elections, Briarpatch Magazine, the Council of Canadians, Solidarity Ottawa and the Fight for $15 and Fairness organized panels with grassroots organizers. |
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Jul 17, 2018  Tracy Latimer’s killer does not deserve a pardonCarmela Hutchison Her father, believing he acted out of ‘mercy’ when he killed her, was judge, jury and executioner. Now he says he is being victimized because his second-degree murder conviction is public record. |
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Jul 17, 2018  Tracy Latimer's killer does not deserve a pardonCarmela Hutchison Her father, believing he acted out of "mercy" when he killed her, was judge, jury and executioner. Now he says he is being victimized because his second-degree murder conviction is public record. |
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Jul 12, 2018  Sign the petition for domestic worker rightsThe campaign estimates that almost 150,000 workers in Canada are employed as domestic workers. Support women workers, migrant workers and join the Quebec Steelworkers solidarity campaign. |
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Jul 12, 2018  Ontario fightback: Progressive MPPs elected to Queen's Park speak out, part 2Maya Bhullar More progressive MPPs in Ontario reached out to tell us why they ran and how to help build change. |
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Jul 9, 2018  Low corporate tax continues the social welfare collapseEd Finn Canada’s social spending has declined to just 17.2 per cent of GDP. There is no excuse for government refusal to improve our inferior social programs and help millions in poverty-stricken families. |
 A tool to track the cuts Doug Ford is making and proposing3 Minute Action Let's keep this tool current |
 Share your story about abortion3 Minute Action Two sites which are collecting the stories of women and allies |
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Jul 6, 2018  The real Big ShortEd Finn Canada’s social spending has declined to just 17.2 per cent of GDP. There is no excuse for government refusal to improve our inferior social programs and help millions in poverty-stricken families. |
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Jul 6, 2018  What misogyny looks like when you wear a hijabThe dehumanization of Muslim women is ingrained in people's imagination. And the common, simplistic and wrong perception that the hijab is a symbol of oppression is still alive and thriving. |
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Jul 5, 2018  Trump's family separation policy inflicts pain and fuels hateDetention of immigrant families in the U.S. has been happening for years. But, on May 7, the cruel triumvirate of Trump, Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions enacted by fiat the "zero tolerance" policy. |
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Jul 5, 2018  Weaponizing Words -- The dilemmas of free speechNeeds No Introduction In the era of hate speech and fake news, do we need more limits on free speech? A panel discussion hosted by Simon Fraser University's Institute for the Humanities. |
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