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Canada’s militarization of the Arctic threatens Indigenous communities and the climate
New defence policy promises to expand NORAD, NATO amid vulnerable oceanic ecosystem.
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Less can mean more: Reducing energy consumption to manage the climate crisis
As more people consume more energy, our society moves collectively further away from mitigating climate catastrophe.
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Ontario Federation of Labour rallies with students at UofT encampment
As attacks kill yet more civilians in Rafah, students at their allies at UofT say they will not stop pressuring the university to divest from Israel.
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Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development was not buried with him.
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The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous nations struggle for sovereignty
Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.
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The West’s double standards on Georgia’s ‘foreign agents’ bill
Robinson: If Western states have their reasons for being cagey of foreign influences, so too do those in other countries.
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Students’ Gaza protests spread across Britain
Wave of campus occupations launched at six unis.
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The students will not tolerate hypocrisy: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2024)
From universities to grassroots movements worldwide, young people are fighting back against the complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestians, setting up encampments and facing repression with resilience. This resistance is rooted in a long tradition to impose clarity upon a world encrusted by compromise, from the movement against apartheid in South Africa to China’s May Fourth Movement.
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Pro-Israel groups vs. student democracy at McGill
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.
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Canada faces another grim wildfire season
The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.
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Remembering the ‘year of the Irish’
There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.
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Akwesasne and the history of hydropower
Hydropower has long been heralded as “clean,” “green” energy. Yet living in Akwesasne, just a few kilometers away from the Moses-Saunders Power Dam, it seems that almost every one of its approximately 13,000 residents is either sick or has a family member that is sick.
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Stand up to the Israel Lobby: An open letter to the B.C. NDP
In February, former BC cabinet minister Selina Robinson was forced to resign because of her bigoted comments about Palestinians.
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Charging Canada’s genocidaires
Dozens, possibly two hundred, Canadians are currently subjugating Palestinians in the West Bank and slaughtering them in Gaza.
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Instead of ‘civil discourse’ we have civil terror
Last week, the CBC ran an interview on its flagship program, The Current, with Randy Boyagoda, a professor at the University of Toronto (U of T). Dr Boyagoda is neither Jewish nor Palestinian. He is an English scholar with several novels and critical essays under his belt.
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A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.
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Racist asylum and immigration policy in the U.S. and Canada
Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of people the word American still refers to whites only.
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Illegal Israeli settlements land for sale in Canada
The Canada Files became aware of planned Canadian illegal settlement events for selling land in the West Bank and Gaza through a Twitter post from Ghada Sasa, a Palestinian PhD Candidate at McMaster University.
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AMLO’s push for environmental reforms angers Canadian mining sector
Ottawa has often criticized measures that would limit the ability of Canadian companies to profit from Mexico’s resource wealth.
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Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.