Democracy Now! broadcasts from Chicago, site of the largest NATO summit in the organization’s six-decade history. On Sunday, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as members of Afghans For Peace, led a peace march of thousands of people. I…

On the 100th day of the protest in the Quebec students’ strike, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Montreal, with solidarity rallies happening in cities across Canada, in the US and Europe. Here is a small taste of scene on the streets in Mon…

Quebec students, outraged over a 75% tuition increase, have sparked the largest protests in Quebec’s history and have already managed the rare achievement of achieving genuine, if minor, concessions that would have almost certainly not happened were…

Harper government is letting us down on many fronts and his policies on the environment are one of the major let downs. Harper is in the pocket of oil, gas and coal companies. People are left with no choice but to protest. Professor Mark Jaccard was ar…

Protesters rallied outside the gold giant’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, while other concerned activists addressed shareholders inside.

Tuesday’s May Day protests and re-Occupation continued on into Wednesday as roughly 75 demonstrators, some of whom had camped out over night in Simcoe Park, protested Barrick Gold’s annual general meeting at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Toronto-based Barrick is the world’s largest gold-mining firm, and has been criticized for both its environmental practices and [...]

An election-fraud protest drew a small crowd, but the organizers vow to keep on going.

A rally Sunday at Old City Hall, the objective of which was to demand an independent public inquiry into voter suppression during the 2011 federal election, turned out to be a bit of a non-event. With fewer than two dozen protesters gathered around a tent, listening to speeches blaring out of what looked a guitar [...]

Occupy Toronto, No One is Illegal and the May 1st Movement announce 24-hour “re-occupation,” giant chess game in celebration of International Workers Day.

With just four activists speaking to roughly a dozen members of the media (and one confused security guard) from behind a plexiglass podium, this morning’s announcement of the Toronto’s May Day events—a day of protests co-organized by the May 1st Movement, Occupy Toronto and No One is Illegal—was a bit anti-climatic. That said, the announcement [...]

160 arrested in Gatineau

A crowd of about 200 appeared in Queen’s Park, Ontario yesterday, protesting provincial legislation that will help eliminate anti-gay bullying in schools. This rally also marked the unveiling of some brand new terminology to be used by the anti-gay lobby, as a spokesperson began referring to Gay-Straight Alliances as “homosexual sex clubs.” The protesters then [...]

The following is a partial list from The Toronto Star: G20 Summit: Cop Unmasked As Protest Couple File Suit
(Read the Star article for all the details)

March 7, 2012: Toronto police settle a human rights claim filed by a
paraplegic man arrested duri…

The following is a partial list from The Toronto Star: G20 Summit: Cop Unmasked As Protest Couple File Suit (Read the Star article for all the details) March 7, 2012: Toronto police settle a human rights claim filed by a paraplegic man arrested during…

CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO: DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT DRUMMAND’S DREADFUL DIRECTIONS: Always on the lookout to squeeze the poor even further the McGuinty government of Ontario has recently received a commission report of a plan to tighten the screws fr…

CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO:DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT DRUMMAND’S DREADFUL DIRECTIONS: Always on the lookout to squeeze the poor even further the McGuinty government of Ontario has recently received a commission report of a plan to tighten the screws from …

A government with no moral authority, a democracy in the balance, and a brewing struggle between the state and its people: Canada in 2012.

Two summers ago, a lot of things we said about this government—then a minority—centered around its perceived slide towards authoritarianism. By July 2010, the Harper Conservatives had suspended parliament twice, both times out of naked self-interest, suggesting that the canary in the coal mine of Canada’s democracy was clinging with one claw to life. This [...]

WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square WHEN: The afternoon of Saturday, March 10. WHAT: Several hundred members of Toronto’s Tibetan community and their supporters gathered in Parkdale and marched to Yonge-Dundas Square this weekend, to mark the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against the occupation of Tibet by the army of the People’s Republic of China. (One poignant [...]

CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO:KEEP THE SCHOOL HOUSE SHELTER OPEN: Here’s another callout from down Ontario way and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). This is an appeal and petition to keep a downtown homeless shelter open. Here’s the story:&…

Thousands of students on strike

CANADIAN LABOUR ONTARIO:PENSIONERS AND ALLIES OCCUPY 21 ONTARIO TORY OFFICES:It’s called “Blue (collar)-Grey Power”, an alliance of workers and pensioners to oppose Tory plans to gut Canada’s Old Age Security (OAS). Here’s the story, from the United F…

CANADIAN LABOUR ONTARIO: PENSIONERS AND ALLIES OCCUPY 21 ONTARIO TORY OFFICES: It’s called “Blue (collar)-Grey Power”, an alliance of workers and pensioners to oppose Tory plans to gut Canada’s Old Age Security (OAS). Here&#821…

They expected 2,000 to attend and, according to police reports, 2,000 people demonstrated their opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and shut down the main street of the small northern city of Prince Rupert, B.C. When 15 per cent of th…