by Priyanka Rabindranath & Steve da Silva On Sunday, December 10, two dozen people gathered in front of Toronto’s Old City Hall to mark International Human Rights Day and bring attention to the expanding scope of extrajudicial killings being carried out in the Philippines by the Rodrigo Duterte administration. “Duterte has shown his true colours…
TCHC Residents Froze This Past Weekend in Units With No Heating
Murdered Indigenous woman’s memorial trashed by landlord
Red Cross Scarborough Announces Closure
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Did Islamophobia contribute to the paramedics’ negligence in the death of Yosif Al-Hasnawi?
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Charges laid against man for two of the Church-Wellesley murders, more remain unsolved
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TCHC Residents Froze This Past Weekend in Units With No Heating
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Murdered Indigenous woman’s memorial trashed by landlord
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Red Cross Scarborough Announces Closure
Toronto
Duterte Moves into “Fascist Dictatorship” as Extrajudicial Killings, Repression Expand
Swissport workers enter new deal with ‘mixed feelings’
by Sara Jaffri Workers employed with Swissport International Ltd. at Pearson International Airport are entering into a new three-year contract with the company after concluding a tough 11-week long strike in the middle of October. Tense negotiations Only 63% of the 700 striking workers, represented by the union Teamsters Local 419, voted in favour of…
Kitchener-Waterloo
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Ontario
Saving Face: Canada’s Settlement of the Ontario Sixties Scoop
by Nooria Alam The Canadian federal government reached a settlement agreement during the month of October with the survivors of the Sixties Scoop in Ontario, after almost a decade of dragging its feet and trying to get the case thrown out of court. The federal government has been ordered to pay $750 million to the…
Quebec
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Vancouver
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Canada
Murdered Indigenous woman’s memorial trashed by landlord
by Sara Jaffri On October 22, a public memorial to honour the life of a young Indigenous woman murdered in Winnipeg was taken down and thrown in the garbage by a landlord just hours after her family and friends left the site of the gathering. “I attempted to speak to the landlord and ask him…
Ontario Prisoner Punished on False Grounds
*After the publication of this article, BASICS learned that Nathanael Williams has been transferred to a prison in Quebec, where he is currently continuing his sentence. by Sara Jaffri Nathanael Williams, a 34-year old prison inmate in Kingston, Ontario, is currently under solitary confinement. He will be forcibly relocated across the country to Alberta at…
International
Duterte Moves into “Fascist Dictatorship” as Extrajudicial Killings, Repression Expand
by Priyanka Rabindranath & Steve da Silva On Sunday, December 10, two dozen people gathered in front of Toronto’s Old City Hall to mark International Human Rights Day and bring attention to the expanding scope of extrajudicial killings being carried out in the Philippines by the Rodrigo Duterte administration. “Duterte has shown his true colours…
After Charlottesville, Who Are Our Friends and Enemies?
by Kabir Joshi-Vijayan On August 12th, White nationalists from across the United States gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the removal of a Confederate General’s statue. They were met by hundreds of anti-racist counter-protesters, and police stood by as the two groups clashed in the street. Dozens were injured in the mayhem, and Heather Heyer, a…