Canada’s NDP needs to rekindle the anti-capitalist thinking and activist energy that spurred its creation. That logic has shaped my campaign’s recently…
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Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election.…
Eight hundred and eighty-five to 58. That was the result of a recent Concordia student vote in favour of the university severing…
omorrow the Montreal police will arrest me for posting to social media against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Today I received a phone…
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Melanie Joly traveled to Israel to support its genocidal policies in Gaza. The trip will go down as one of the more…
On the few occasions where activists have directly restrained imperialist policies their partial victories have been twisted to reinforce benevolent Canadian mythology.…
Twenty years ago I helped set up a small activist collective called Block the Empire to oppose Canada’s contribution to the invasion…
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