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Billionaire Jeff Bezos gestures at a picture of a rocket. Image: NASA Kennedy/Flickr
A space journey above, a migrant's journey below
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Jeff Bezos' short odyssey cost an estimated $2.5 million per minute. Armando Alejo Hernandez's journey may have cost him much more.
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Canadian-made armoured vehicle stops human rights defenders in Colombia
Brent Patterson | Questions persist about the role of Canadian-built light armoured vehicles in human rights violations abroad.
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Toronto police and security personnel are seen through an orange fence during the eviction. Image: Rafi Aaron/Used with permission
The militarized assault on Toronto's homeless people continues
Cathy Crowe | Toronto's mayor John Tory continues to defy international public health guidelines to not evict encampments and employ a human rights approach.
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Moe and Sophie Harkat. Image: Justice for Mohamed Harkat/Used with permission
Enduring Canada's surveillance regime
Matthew Behrens | Instead of sending people to jail, Canada now brings the jail to you. Mohamed Harkat's story.
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Justice for Berta Cáceres. Image: Daniel Cima/CIDH/Flickr
As the climate crisis intensifies, so do attacks on land defenders
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Finally, on Monday, the Honduran Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found Roberto David Castillo guilty of ordering the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres.
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A distance to the Canadian border sign in Minnesota. Image: Tony Webster/Flickr
How Canada failed thousands of asylum-seekers during the pandemic
Neela Hassan | While Canada has been long praised for its asylum generosity towards refugees, the federal government's approach towards seekers during the pandemic has violated human rights.
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Ottawa Police Services filming a gathering of some 8,000 people mourning the loss of Indigenous children. Image: Brent Patterson/Used with permission
Ottawa police filming Every Child Matters walk echoes the Indian Act's pass system
Brent Patterson | The surveillance of racialized peoples has a long history and technology is now further enabling the erosion of the right to peaceful assembly.
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City workers dismantle the encampment at Trinity Bellwoods Park. Image: Paul Salvatori/Used with Permission
The esthetics of the Trinity Bellwoods evictions
Rick Salutin | "I understand, people pay millions of dollars for nice lavish condos that look over the park here and I'm doing it for free...you want me to leave? Fine, I'll leave, I get it."
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City workers, some in white hazmat suits ready to begin dismantling people's homes and load material into a white city truck. Image credit: Paul Salvatori/Used with Permission
Eviction at Trinity Bellwoods repeats history
Cathy Crowe | This week's militarized operation to evict two dozen people from a Toronto park shows the huge failure of Toronto City Council and its mayor to achieve the human right to housing.
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A dog named Flash watches planes go by. Image credit: bravoinsd/Flickr
Could Air Canada's ban on emotional support animals be challenged?
Pro Bono, Claudia Pedrero | In a policy change effective March 1, 2021, Air Canada implemented a ban on emotional support animals in its cabins.
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Public health initiative in rural Karnataka, India. Image credit: Trinity Care Foundation/Flickr
Delta variant largely 'a developing country problem'
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | The gap between the rich and the poor is the result of vaccine apartheid. While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe.
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Kinda and Zaina in the rubble of Gaza, hoping to reunite with their mother and two younger siblings in Canada after over 2 years of separation. Image used with permission.
Palestinian refugees in Canada plead to reunite with family in Gaza
Matthew Behrens | Last month, UN secretary general António Guterres declared: "If there is a hell on earth, it is the lives of children in Gaza."
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