Andrea Smith, Cherokee scholar-activist and co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color against Violence, and Bridget Tolley and Kristen Gilchrist, co-founders of Families of Sisters in Spirit - a discussion on ways forward to end violence against Indigenous women.

Presented by: No More Silence Network and the Women and Gender Studies Institute at UofT with the support of The Native Youth Sexual Health Network.

Once a year, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) throws the world's largest mining convention in downtown Toronto. This year, the convention featured a track on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that was open to the public. The final session of this track was a CEO panel featuring Jamie Sokalsky, the CEO of Barrick Gold.

On February 28, 2013 a massive police presence greeted an Ontario Federation of Labour rally on behalf of COPE Local 343. These workers were forced to strike by Porter airlines in order to get a first collective agreement with basic health and safety conditions and a living wage. Police protected replacement workers who drove recklessly through a picket line. Police then forced back demonstrators to make way for a Porter bus to get through while Sid Ryan was about to make a speech. Later a riot squad on horseback were called in, ostensibly to clear the road for an ambulance that the rally leadership had offered to let through 20 minutes earlier.

On Dec. 30 around 11:30 a.m., a group of Indigenous people and some non-Indigenous supporters took over the area below the escalators at Aberdeen Mall in Kamloops, B.C. in an Idle No More flash mob.
Here are some of the highlights.