Montreal’s police department, the SPVM, has finally crossed a line that they can’t very easily step back over. It’s not their blatant violation of the […]
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Demonstration against deportation sweeps downtown
Groups gathered in solidarity against deportations this Saturday amidst the downtown bustle of Formula One. Organized by Cité sans frontières / Solidarity City, the crowd consisted […]
Plan B: Harper limits maternal health – again
Anti-abortion activists are once again upset after the federal government announced last week that the Department of Foreign Affairs has funded the “morning after pill,” […]
Anti-Deportation Days are here
With a Canadian passport becoming increasingly harder to get for some and harder to keep for others and seemingly arbitrary deportations happening all the time, […]
Net Neutrality is under attack again and John Oliver lobbies trolls (VIDEO)
Net Neutrality, the principle that all content online should be equally accessible, is under attack…again. This time around, the Federal Communications Commission in the US […]
Bill C-33: Assimilation in the 21st Century
On June 11 2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons and offered apologies on behalf of the Canadian government for the […]
Bill C-24 makes citizenship harder to get and easier to lose
May 23 marked a century since the Canadian government refused entry to asylum-seekers aboard the steamship Komataga Maru. While Canadians may boast the country as […]
Is a Justin Trudeau pro choice statement enough?
Media attention to abortion in Canada ebbs and flows, and has recently been in the spotlight yet again since the impending closure of the Morgentaler […]
With P6, the SPVM is the Monsanto of law enforcement
I didn’t go to the Montreal Anti Monsanto March Saturday. It’s not because I’m lazy and it’s not because I support Monsanto, far from it. […]
Another Europe is possible: European Union is not a social union
“The European Union isn’t a social union” said Angela Merkel German chancellor in a lyrical musing this past week. The truth of the matter is […]