No Vaccine? No Movies, Concerts or Restaurants
BC to require proof of vaccination for wide range of ‘discretionary’ activities to curb COVID spread.
Category: Plus40
Art Is Hell: Walter Scott on the Funny, Agonizing ‘Wendy’
‘I know I’m doing something right when I’m laughing as I’m making a sketch.’
Inside the raid on Fairy Creek’s HQ: Violence, arrests and media exclusion
Tensions mount amid hundreds of arrests, but the blockades are still standing
Canada’s violence can no longer be masked by shallow national identity
Usually, Canada Day celebrations begin by trotting out Indigenous folk in their colourful beads and feathers. More recently, lame land acknowledgement practices have become some symbol of amends in the … Read More
Cancel Canada
Since the project of colonization began, endless have been the acts by Indigenous People across Turtle Island of resistance, solidarity, honouring, resurgence, rematriation, courage, power. Resistance, solidarity, honouring, resurgence, rematriation, … Read More
How Canada failed thousands of asylum-seekers during the pandemic
In recent years, the world has witnessed the highest number of displacements on record — including refugees, asylum seekers, and those who are internally displaced. By mid-2020, asylum seekers made … Read More
Canada’s ancient forests are being turned into toilet paper
More than 352 forest defenders have now been arrested at the Fairy Creek blockades in B.C. since mid-May, when police began enforcing an injunction obtained by logging company Teal-Jones. Forest … Read More
‘No new fighter jets’ campaign first step towards defunding military
Progressives should be pushing to defund or abolish the Canadian military. But, first we need to stop bolstering its capacity to kill in U.S. and NATO lead wars. Yesterday the … Read More
Biden’s Trump-like stand on Cuba will only make things worse
When it comes to Cuba, Joe Biden and other top Democrats have turned into Donald Trump. After saying in his campaign he would normalize relations with Cuba, Biden instead stayed … Read More
Legal complaint launched against Israeli-Canadian charity
A request to revoke the Canadian Zionist Cultural Association’s charitable status is an important step towards lessening Canadian complicity in Palestinian dispossession. Registered Canadian charities provide significant support to Israel … Read More
On sustainable development, we’re grasping at straws
It was over three decades ago that the term “sustainable development” was made popular by the Bruntland report Our Common Future which quickly morphed into the ultimate oxymoron of our … Read More
Raising the floor
by Dan Darrah Jun 30, 2021 12 min read Share “I don’t even know, to this day, how we did it.” In 1979, when she was 23, … Read More
Were You Drawn by the ‘Sneaky Artist’?
Nishant Jain follows in the footsteps of the world’s urban sketchers.
Letter from Haida Gwaii, As History Is Made
After decades of struggle, the Haida Nation signs a landmark agreement with BC and Canada aimed at autonomy.
Filipinos across Canada respond to pandemic inequalities
by Megan Kinch Jul 5, 2021 10 min read Share In April 2020, COVID began spreading through the Cargill beef slaughterhouse near High River, Alberta. Nearly half … Read More