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Mount Polley: Mining is disaster
Wednesday, August 13, 2014The Mount Polley mining disaster in B.C. has barely been sustained in national news, let alone break in international news. This is despite the fact that mining experts are...
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Thirteen years into the War of Terror
Thursday, September 11, 2014While facilitating a youth workshop recently, I realized that this generation is completely shaped by the events and politics of 9/11. Though few of the youth were able to...
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Death and despair in Canada's migrant dungeons
Monday, September 29, 2014One month after the death of 42-year-old hotel worker and Mexican migrant Lucia Vega Jimenez in Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) custody, I received a call from a young...
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This past week an all-white jury listened to testimony at the inquest into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez while in Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) custody.During the last month of her life, every...
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No safe haven: Canada's 'managed migration'
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 Canada is often cast as a liberal counterpoint to aggressive U.S. immigration enforcement tactics. But, the U.S. has actually pointed to Canada as the model to implement for...
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Permanent precarity: Canada's immigration model becomes neoliberal blueprint
Canada is often seen has a haven for immigration, especially by our U.S. neighbours. But the 'managed migration' model spells a different story.No safe haven: Canada's 'managed migration'
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Burnaby Mountain: Latest wall of opposition against tar sands
Tuesday, November 4, 2014An injunction and a $5.6-million civil suit in damages is what corporate energy giant Kinder Morgan is seeking against blockaders at a court hearing this week.Since August of...
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Mobilizing against the tar sands: Grassroots action in Burnaby
The latest wall of opposition against the tar sands is occurring on Burnaby Mountain where protesters refuse to let Kinder Morgan work.Burnaby Mountain: Latest wall of opposition against tar sands
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Do Black Lives Matter in Canada?
Wednesday, December 17, 2014As events in Ferguson, New York, Oakland and beyond unfold, many Canadians have been quick to distance ourselves from the systemic racism that has plagued the U.S. since the...
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Is Canada overlooking its own anti-Black racism?
As events in Ferguson and beyond unfold, many Canadians have been quick to distance ourselves from the systemic racism that plagues the U.S. -- but in doing so, overlook anti-Black racism in Canada.Do...
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'Land is a Relationship': In conversation with Glen Coulthard on Indigenous...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015"Your good words make my ears tingle," says Elaine Durocher as she overhears Glen Coulthard at a diner in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),...
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'This system hasn't killed me yet': A roundtable on gendered colonial violence
Wednesday, February 11, 2015For the past 25 years, Indigenous elders, women, family and community members in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh...
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A roundtable on gendered colonial violence: Part two
Friday, February 13, 2015On Wednesday, we introduced a roundtable with four Indigenous family and community members who are leading the calls for justice for Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, and...
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Justice for Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit and trans people
Four Indigenous women leaders discuss gendered colonial violence in the lead up to the Annual Women's March on February 14.A roundtable on gendered colonial violence: Part two
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Reimagining feminism on International Women's Day
Wednesday, March 4, 2015Every morning I read my one-year-old daughter a fabulous children's alphabet book. When we get to the letter F, it goes "F is for Feminist, Fairness in our Pay." Of course a...
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