By Janelle Marie Baker The Canadian Government rejected the call for a National Inquiry into the estimated 582 missing Aboriginal women in Canada. How is this possible? I will begin with a story: I was working for a First Nation in Alberta and staying with a family on the reserve. My co-worker and I had…
…An open letter to those Canadians who are Irish, and those who wish they were. By Sinéad Liobhas (Jennifer Lewis) This is a cheeky look at the appropriation of Irish culture in Canada. Though I’m no Jonathan Swift, I wanted to use some typically Dublin humour, in honour of everyone’s favourite holiday, St. Patrick’s Day. Ah,…
by Ayan Bihi Recently, as I was perusing through the black hole that can often be the internet, I stumbled upon a new word which later led to me discovering a recent injustice that sounded like a joke but unfortunately was a reality. It all goes back to a term called Affluenza, a new mental state…
Writing by Chelsey Geralda Denise Armstrong and Camina Manychief, Photographs by Sarah Allan By now, hopefully most of you have heard something about the RCMP attacks on a peaceful protest near Rexton, New Brunswick, home of the Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq. On the morning of Thursday, October 17th RCMP opened fire (rubber bullets and pepper spray) on demonstrators opposing…
by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five A LEGAL UPDATE: THE CASE OF THE CUBAN FIVE In September 1998, five Cuban men were arrested in Miami by FBI agents. Gerardo Hernandez, Ramón Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and René Gonzalez were accused of the crime of conspiracy to commit espionage. The…
by Jahanzeb Hussain On May 20th and 21st, Chicago hosted the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for its summit on the future of Afghanistan. Absent from the official proceedings of course were the popular, dissenting Afghan and American voices. As usual, such voices were to be found in the city streets, as thousands of people marched…
by Fathima Cader Last weekend, Don Davies, Immigration critic for the NDP and MP for Vancouver-Kingsway, attended an anti-racist community march and block party that No One Is Illegal-Vancouver (NOII) had organised after local neo-Nazis lit on fire and attacked several people of colour in Vancouver on Commercial Drive, a Vancouver neighbourhood otherwise infamous for…
by Fathima Cader March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism, marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, when police opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid’s passbook laws. Police killed 67 people and wounded 186. This year, in light of the recent string of hate…
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