This and that for your Tuesday reading.- I’ll very much hope Chantal Hebert is wrong in her conclusion that Canadians are getting ever more doubtful as to whether change is possible through the ballot box. But one can’t much argue with her take on why …

Celebrate International Day for Conscientious Objection by calling on the government to rescind Operational Bulletin 202 Today, May 15, is the International Day for Conscientious Objection. Please join us in calling for the elimination of Immigration M…

… support Palestinian prisoners on strike for 75 days.Contributor: “PAJU”ON THE 64TH NAKBA COMMEMORATION: Hunger strikers in Montreal support Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 75 daysLatuffAs Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab are on their 75th d…

We need to leave the tarsands oil in the ground. We need an increasing carbon tax. We need to stop subsidizing carbon energy producers. We need public money invested in post-carbon energy. We need to do it now. I say all this, as does this NASA physicist: The science of the situation is clear — [...]

Alex Ballingall reports on the Quebec student movement

I didn’t blog about this year’s seal slaughter, although I followed news of it through HSI Canada. It isn’t going well for sealers, as the market for their antiquated product has all but disappeared.Despite millions of dollars in government financing p…

I didn’t blog about this year’s seal slaughter, although I followed news of it through HSI Canada. It isn’t going well for sealers, as the market for their antiquated product has all but disappeared. Despite millions of dollars in gov…

On Monday, June 4, websites representing thousands of Canadian people and organizations will go dark to protest changes introduced in the Harper Government’sTM budget act (Bill C-38).To join this online protest, go to Black Out Speak Out – or Silence, …

On Monday, June 4, websites representing thousands of Canadian people and organizations will go dark to protest changes introduced in the Harper Government’sTM budget act (Bill C-38). To join this online protest, go to Black Out Speak Out –…

I know it’s such an Alan Moore thing to say, but people shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. We should be proud of students in Quebec for

Last month, a broad alliance of organizations from across the progressive spectrum came together to train 100,000 people in non-violent direct action in the hopes of supporting a wave of action targeting corporations and the politicians that own them. …

As attention turns toward the mass student strike on the streets of Montreal, ongoing for three months, the Quebec student movement clearly exemplifies the power that activism holds to shape our collective imagination.
The student protests distant from…

What do you think about the student strike in Quebec? What do you think of the Manifesto for a Maple Spring? Some of the Politics, Re-Spun crew explore it from each of our perspectives: 1. Are people naive to expect the Quebec tuition protesters to be the leaders of a Maple Spring to expand the [...]

A concern about the social and environmental destruction caused by Canadian mining companies brought me to the fourth annual Mining Injustice Conference organized by the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, held at the University of Toronto.
The confer…

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Linda McQuaig is hopeful that Quebec’s student protests against tuition hikes might remind many Canadians that we can do more than just meekly accept austerity and inequality: What seems to particularly g…

This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Linda McQuaig is hopeful that Quebec’s student protests against tuition hikes might remind many Canadians that we can do more than just meekly accept austerity and inequality:What seems to particularly gall some…

A new private Members Bill — Bill C-309 — will make it illegal for demonstrators to cover their faces during “tumultuous demonstrations,” with a penalty of up to five years in prison.
Bill C-309, first introduced before the House of Commons last year…

These are my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here.* * * *Workers rising: From Wisconsin to OntarioPanel Discussion, May 28, 2011Allen RuffAllen spoke again about the worker uprising in Wisconsin (see here), with mor…

These are my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here. * * * * Workers rising: From Wisconsin to OntarioPanel Discussion, May 28, 2011 Allen Ruff Allen spoke again about the worker uprising in Wisconsin (see here), with…

These are my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here.* * * *How can we stop the right?Christine Beckermann, member of ISMay 29, 2011With the emergence of the Tea Party in the US, Rob Ford’s election in Toronto, and now…