Aug 24, 2018
The othering of immigrants in Canada
Politicians who are raising the spectre of fear around immigrants today evoke the discrimination that immigrants have faced over the course of Canada's history.
Civil Liberties Watch
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Aug 22, 2018  Joint statement on Canada's support for women human rights defenders in Saudi ArabiaCanadian organizations have signed on supporting rights of women’s rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada, and commend Minister Freeland for her uncompromising stand for human rights. |
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Aug 17, 2018  If you see a graphic billboard about abortion in your community, submit a complaint!The anti-choice group "We Need a Law" has contracted with Pattison Outdoor Advertising to display these billboards in numerous cities/locations across Canada. Here is how to remove them. |
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Aug 17, 2018  Charities' right to free speech -- yet another broken election promiseThe Trudeau government has decided to appeal the Ontario Superior Court ruling that would have allowed charities to do their work on behalf of Canadians, free from political harassment. |
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Aug 16, 2018  How to build on the opportunity for change created by the Saudi Arabia spatrabble staff How do we apply pressure to push for changes in the relationship with Saudi Arabia? Here are three progressive comprehensive campaigns that could make a real impact. |
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Aug 14, 2018  Why are people destitute in Canada?A social safety net to ensure that every individual has enough to live on should be standard in a liberal democracy. Canada had such a social safety net, until it was abolished nearly 25 years ago. |
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Aug 10, 2018  What the rich need now is hate, sweet hateHumberto DaSilva Extreme intolerance seems to be the 0.0001%'s new tack to ensure the energy of all the growing underclasses are not misdirected at them. |
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Aug 9, 2018 Amy Goodman : Why independent media matters: reporting democracy, resistance and hoperabble.ca was proud to present a talk by Amy Goodman as part of our launch of the Jack Layton Journalism for Change fellowship. |
 Find creative ways to promote proportional representation3 Minute Action Fair Vote Canada has launched a photo and video competition. |
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Aug 8, 2018  Families belong. That’s allNisha Toomey Sharmeen Khan When we demand that immigrant families stay together, we mean they should be free together. Families should live in safety and should not live under the terror of being separated. |
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Aug 6, 2018  A tar sands travelogue blends comic book art with investigative storiesJune Chua 'Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale' is an important, accessible look at the tar sands problem and what it means for Indigenous communities, Alberta, and Canada. |
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Aug 6, 2018  A tar sands travelogue blends comic book art with investigative stories'Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale' is an important, accessible look at the tar sands problem and what it means for Indigenous communities, Alberta, and Canada. |
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Aug 5, 2018  A Mexican journalist's fight for asylum and a free pressEmilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas. |
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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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