Trade trumps human rights as Canada pursues new agreement with Indonesia
Current stance of Liberal government harkens back to when Canada sought close ties to Indonesia even as it carried out a genocidal occupation of East Timor
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Growing movement led by medical professionals pushes for COVID-zero strategy
Eliminate the new coronavirus with strict measures, without waiting for a vaccine and without yo-yo-ing between ineffective half-restrictions and none at all — this is the call of a growing … Read More
The other side of ‘cancel culture:’ Students open up about racial abuse on campus
‘People talk about cancel culture, but what do you call it when someone has to leave school because it’s such a hostile place?’
PTSD haunts Canadian jurors, but they aren’t allowed to talk about it
Bill before the Senate would allow jurors to discuss trials with medical professionals
No time to waste: Advocates warn red tape may slow decriminalization process
After last year’s record-breaking death toll in B.C., Vancouver is leading a growing push to end criminal penalties for simple possession
Barrie police, mayor won’t identify cop who beat skateboarder
Eyewitness says man beaten by Barrie police officer mouthed off about his ticket, but did nothing to provoke the assault
With oil’s future uncertain, workers want to know if Trudeau has a plan for them
‘Instead of waiting for politicians in Edmonton or Ottawa to magically come up with solutions, we need to start pushing for them ourselves’
Eviction is the business model: ‘Renovictions’ continue amid pandemic
“The whole point … is for tenants to live in a constant state of fear.”
First Nations pot shops feel the squeeze of Ontario’s COVID lockdowns
But despite fewer customers, some community members still think too many visitors are coming through
Burning journalism to the ground (for the Good of the Shareholders)
From the moment he burst through the door at 5:59 a.m. until our shift ended eight hours later, Jan was on a tear — coffee, nicotine, cops and robbers punctuated … Read More
‘We’re a big family’: Community rallies to erect warming tent for homeless
Quebec promised a tent, and didn’t deliver. So a group of Indigenous women stepped in and made it happen
A failure of common decency: Pandemic exposes our ugly side
There will be a great impulse to cover over and deny such a failure ever happened
Trudeau’s anti-racism serves corporate Canada, not Black communities in all our complexity
Perhaps the greatest expression of anti-Black racism in Canada is believing Black people and communities across the country are one and the same. For most of my life, white people … Read More
Coffee shops, once the final frontier for unions, move to the front lines
COVID-19 has heated up interest in unionization by laying bare unequal and unsafe working conditions. Can the momentum last?
Her name was Amanda: Another avoidable death hits Montreal’s homeless community.
‘It’s not normal that people should die on the streets in a country as rich as Canada’