Canada

25/06/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce was appointed Canada’s first chief officer of medical health in 1904. He toured residential schools and exposed them as disease incubators and superspreaders.

2 Jun 2021

A century ago, Dr. Peter Bryce demonstrated that residential schools were designed to kill. Canada’s government ignored him.

You have probably never heard of Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce, but I can tell you this: he would not have been shocked or surprised by the discovery of an unmarked grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School last week.

25/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Canada will not meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets without major changes, warns the Parliamentary Budget Office. Photo by Bigstock

June 24th 2021

Canada will not meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets without dramatically scaling up new technologies that the Parliamentary Budget Office warns could be “prohibitively expensive” in a sobering new report.

22/06/21
Author: 
Monia Mazigh
Flag-wrapped coffins are seen outside the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario, during a funeral of the Afzaal family that was killed in what police describe as a hate-motivated attack, in London, Ontario, Canada June 12, 2021. PHOTO BY CARLOS OSORIO /REUTERS

Jun 15, 2021

In the aftermath of the Islamophobic attack in London, Ont., where four members of the same family were killed after a 20-year-old man drove his truck over them, leaving the youngest surviving member of the family fighting for his life in a hospital, many Canadians are wondering how we got to this point. How is it possible, in Canada — a country known around the world for its multicultural fabric — that a human being can unleash so much hate and terror?

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22/06/21
Author: 
Moira Donovan

June 22nd 2021

For much of the pandemic, Nova Scotia has been closed to the outside world. But a proposed natural gas project in the province — dubbed “the last one standing” by the CEO of the company behind it — is reaching across borders nonetheless.

21/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Indigenous rights and climate activists gathered outside Liberty Mutual's office in Vancouver to pressure the insurance giant to stop covering Trans Mountain. Photo courtesy of Andrew Larigakis

June 21, 2021

Friday marked the end of a global week of action against insurers of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project. The protests, calling on its insurers to cut ties with the federally owned pipeline, spanned 25 actions across four continents.

20/06/21
Author: 
Sophie Birks
Illustration from the Toronto-based Keep Your Rent campaign.

 June 7, 2021

Taking on landlords can feel like an impossible task, but these organizers are winning battles, and a bigger wave of tenant organizing could acheive even more

 

As tenants trying to live through the pandemic, we’ve been stressed about paying the rent as our landlords wield the threat of eviction, often leaving us with no choice but to expose ourselves to COVID-19 in our workplaces. 

 

20/06/21
Author: 
Scott Neigh
Change the system not the climate - sign
May 25, 2021

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18/06/21
Author: 
Kristy Kirkup
Senator Murray Sinclair appears before the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples in Ottawa, on May 28, 2019. Sinclair, the former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says Canadians should be prepared for the discovery of more bodies at other residential school sites across the country.  FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRES

JUNE 18, 2021

The federal government should pay for investigators to find out what happened to Indigenous children who died or went missing at residential schools to determine whether crimes occurred and if “cover-ups” took place, former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Murray Sinclair says.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Sinclair said a team of experienced investigators would need the power to subpoena records from governments and the churches that ran the schools, and access to the locations.

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