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With the imposition of Loi 78, Quebecers en masse have joined with students to protest in the streets - with pots & pans.

Join us on June 5-8 to continue a tradition of community lead action for justice -- for our people, and for the protection of the water, air, and forests that give life to us all.

Recorded on the evening of May 24th, this video shares a taste two of the nightly demos taking place in Montreal, in response to Loi 78 and in support of the student strike.

Labour news from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Noel Colina, executive director of the Filipino OHS group IOHSAD, about a shopping centre fire that killed 18 workers in Mindanao, Philippines.

The Calgary Stampede Board should man up like the Catalonians and declare its centennial rodeo the venue for the last chuckwagon race in Calgary. It’s time.

It's been an important week for Quebec student protesters, and we had lots of coverage in our blogs section!

Most British Columbians would agree that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

In solidarity with striking Quebec students, activists in Toronto are calling for a Casserole action tonight so bring your pots and pans.

In many ways, Slutwalk is waging a battle that is unlike other protest movements. At the heart of all sexual violence is a debate over the ways in which language itself informs actions.

Toronto rallies in solidarity with Quebec students and against Bill 78, as part of a day of action marking 100 days of the student strike.

Yesterday afternoon National Chairperson Maude Barlow, Regional Organizer Mark Calzavara, London Chapter activists Gary Brown and Don McLeod and I visited Sarnia for our fifth stop of the Great Lakes.

These marches are totally illegal, openly flaunting the repressive bill 78, making a mockery of Premier Charest attempt to crush the student and peoples' movement.

Even after a press conference yesterday in Ottawa, we still do not know the details as to exactly what EI changes the government will bring about.

Just because we are feminists doesn't mean we must be flawless.

The wide impact that migration and Canada has on low-income racialized people from the Global South who are going to work and/or seeking refuge here.

The Conservative Party of Canada’s lawyers yesterday filed a second motion to dismiss the legal challenges of individual citizens seeking to overturn federal election results in seven ridings

The Alberta Legislature could have done worse than choose someone like Gene Zwozdesky to wear the Speaker’s three-cornered hat.

draconian anti-protest and racist anti-immigrant laws in canada, new tactics and weapons for the US's NATO, Canada's hidden wars, anti-mining/bling is dead, + harper's fascist gov't

Public hearings in London, Ontario for Enbridge's proposed reversal of the Line 9 pipeline had barely begun when a demonstration shut down the proceedings.

OpenMedia.ca has launched a citizen-made online video educating Canadians about the true cost of the government's online spying legislation C-30 and the threat it poses to personal privacy.

From the Quebec student strike to Occupy Wall Street, the potential for a new global resistance is emerging.

Do Quebec student protests stem from an entitlement mentality? Hardly. They represent a refusal to ride the inequality escalator. Faced with maxed out greed, Quebecois students propose an alternative.

The Charest government has turned to repression to try to break the largest and longest student strike in Quebec history.

In this excerpt from The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, Belén Fernández discusses various aspects of the New York Times columnist's neo-liberal Friedmanomics.

Changes to the EI rules announced by the federal Conservative government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale.