Rolling Green
Travels along Quebec Route Verte GRENOBLE, FRANCE—Quebec is home to the largest cycling network in North America: La Route Verte. Inaugurated in 2007, it connects over 4,000 kilometres of bike routes...
View ArticlePolitical policing in Montreal
Human rights complaints filed against Montreal police’s GAMMA squad MONTREAL—The creation of a new police squad meant to monitor anarchist and marginal political groups is raising serious questions...
View ArticleOccupy Rape Culture
Confronting sexual assault and gender-based violence in the Occupy movement MONTREAL—On the night of October 19, something happened at Occupy Montreal that would substantially change the mood of the...
View ArticleSaying No to CSIS
Dozens of groups launch campaign to not co-operate with Canadian spy agency MONREAL—Nearly 70 groups across Canada have joined a campaign to no longer co-operate with the work of Canada's national spy...
View ArticleThe Honorable Voices of Four Women Killed in Kingston
Reflections on the Shafia murder trial TORONTO—Somewhere in the calm setting of an Islamic cemetery in Laval, Quebec, lie four headstones belonging to four women; all members of a single family....
View ArticleCBC misrepresenting Quebec student strike?
Coverage of yesterday's demo leaves more questions than answers MONTREAL—CBC coverage of yesterday's Quebec student protests in downtown Montreal was driven by a painfully obvious bias against the...
View ArticleRed Squares Sweep Montreal
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest tuition hikes in Quebec MONTREAL—On March 22nd, over 250,000 people marched on the streets of Montreal, making it possibly the largest...
View ArticleQuebec Student Strike Marches Into Eleventh Week
Fifteen thousand take to Montreal streets as Quebec government plays semantics, blocks negotiations MONTREAL—It didn't take long; as always, the consensus among the media came quickly: "Downtown turns...
View ArticleQuebec Government Looks to "Lock-Out" Striking Students
Libs threaten to suspend classes unless pickets lifted Editor's note: Bill 78 was introduced in the National Assembly late Thursday night, and goes even further than what is laid out below. To read...
View ArticlePlan to Pipe Tar Sands to East Coast Protested
Activists interrupt National Energy Board's hearing on Enbridge's proposal to reverse flow of Line 9 pipe TORONTO—Environmental justice protestors temporarily shut down a hearing into a proposal to...
View ArticleFor Their Own Good
Ontario’s legal legacy of the "moral" woman MONTREAL—In 2004, Velma Demerson’s autobiography, Incorrigible was published as a testament to the degradation, abuse and torture of women incarcerated...
View ArticleRed Square Roots
How austerity underpins social crisis and repression in Quebec and beyond MONTREAL—Across Montreal little red squares, sprayed on sidewalk corners, drawn into bus stop walls, or pinned to shirts,...
View ArticleThree ways Quebec can freeze tuition without raising taxes
What the media isn't telling you about government spending in Quebec MONTREAL—Everything and its opposite has been said about Quebec's historic student strike. Strikers and their vocal supporters have...
View ArticleTurning Around Turcot
New hope for highways on a human scale in Montreal MONTREAL—After months of protests that captured the imagination of the world, things have quieted down on Montreal streets. But the impacts of the...
View ArticleHonouring the Dead, Standing with the Survivors
Seventh annual Sisters in Spirit vigil still seeking answers, action for missing and murdered women MONTREAL—Close to 200 people joined Montreal's seventh annual Sisters in Spirit vigil and march last...
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