Southern British Columbia has been hit by two catastrophic weather events in a few months. First was heat and fire, now rain and floods. On November 13 and 14, the skies opened as an “atmospheric river” flowed across much of southern BC, resulting in overflowing rivers, landslides, mud slides, and ruptured railways and highways. This […]
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On Friday, November 5, there was a demonstration at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon campus, predominantly involving Indigenous students. The second demonstration within a month was this time centred on the scandal involving Dr Carrie Bourassa who had been feigning Métis heritage while a professor in the department of community health and epidemiology at the […]
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Militant electioneering and a socialist policy meet with significant support in Quebec. Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux’s team garnered 1,050 votes in the municipal elections on November 7, 2021 in Montreal. Her militant grassroots campaign has shown how elections can be used to broaden the tenants’ struggle movement in Verdun, a borough in the southern part of Montreal. […]
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On Friday November 12, the last day of COP26, a peaceful rally of several hundred for climate justice was disrupted by over-the-top action of the Vancouver Police Department. An Indigenous man, as part of a ceremony, placed red handprints, representing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, on the building that houses Canada’s Department of […]
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With passion and anger young people denounced the failures of capitalism and politicians to deal with growing climate disaster. Socialist Alternative Youth (SAY) in Metro Vancouver organized a meeting on Saturday, November 6 in solidarity with the protests at COP26 in Glasgow. To build for the rally, held at Douglas College in New Westminster, over […]
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Climate change is real, and its impacts are clear. Increasingly the climate disaster feels apocalyptic. The real issue is not: is there climate change? What is to be done? – that is the question. Some, especially young people, feel despair worrying about the future state of the world. If the governments and corporations that dominate […]
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“Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer” goes the saying. In the case of the telecom giant, Rogers, it would appear that it’s your own family members who need to be the closely watched ones. Rogers ─ which currently has two duelling boards of directors, a stalled multibillion-dollar takeover, a feud among the […]
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On October 8, after once again University of Saskatchewan campus security failed to protect a female student from being sexually assaulted, students held a rally in Nobel Plaza holding signs such as “Silence is Violence,” “Stop Victim Blaming,” and “Consent is a Basic Human Right.” Despite the solidarity shown among Caucasian, Indigenous and Transgender students, […]
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Albertans went to the polls on October 18, electing new mayors in the two big cities: Jyoti Gondek in Calgary and Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton. In both cities, voters elected fairly liberal, progressive city councils, most strikingly in Edmonton, where three right-wing councillors lost their seats. Of the nine city council candidates that the Edmonton […]
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Allie Pev, Métis Cree, Treaty 6, is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. Many dismiss whatever they consider to be an “Indigenous issue.” It’s easy to ignore the violent realities of Indigenous life when the government does too. Treaties and Aboriginal Title could easily be misunderstood when the education system flouts history. The consequences of […]
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