A panel of experts has been mandated to review Canada’s environmental assessment process. On Monday, Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna presented the four members […]
Author: Mirna Djukic
Over 200 People Denied for Visas for World Social Forum Including Six Parliamentarians
The World Parliamentary Forum opened on Wednesday in Montreal with very notable absentees. Ottawa denied visas to six of the invited foreign parliamentarians. Organizers and […]
Montreal’s Pride Week Starts with Trans Migrants on the Front Line
The trans march kicked off Montreal’s Pride week yesterday in Place de La Paix. For its third edition, the event chose to focus on the rights […]
Canada Relaxes Controls Over Arms Trade
Canada’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia was a breach of its own military export policies. Thanks to a few tweaks in a document from the […]
Two Canadians Now Detained in Turkey After Coup Attempt
Ilhan Erdem was arrested in Istanbul on Monday over alleged links to the alleged masterminds of the failed coup attempt in Turkey July 15th. He […]
Over 100 Civilians Killed in Recent Anti-ISIS Airstrikes in Syria
The Syrian official opposition is calling for suspension of the International Anti-ISIS Coalition airstrikes after one of them killed at least 56 civilians on Tuesday, northeast […]
International AIDS Conference Sounds the Alarm
The colossal hard-won progress in the global fight against AIDS might be lost to defunding and unequal access to care, warned various speakers in the […]
Two Montreal Events in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter this Week
Around 300 people gathered in Montreal on Wednesday to protest police treatment of black people, both here and in the US. Over a thousand people […]
50 CBSA Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike in Ontario
While Syrian refugees have been greeted with widely applauded warmth by the Canadian government, other immigrants, jailed without trial, are resorting to a hunger strike […]
Chilcot Report: Tony Blair’s “Ill-Prepared War” that Canada Narrowly Avoided
The UK’s Iraq war inquiry just came to a damning conclusion: Ex-PM Tony Blair led the country into an ill-prepared war under false pretenses. The […]