Protest - Revolt

06/04/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Gisdaya and Na'Moks and other representatives from the nation attend RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon on April 5, 2023. Photo by Katie Wilson

Apr. 6, 2023

Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.

31/03/23
Author: 
Angelique Chrisafis
Protests in Nantes, western France, against Macron's attempts to change the official retirement age. Photograph: Jeremías González/AP

Mar. 28, 2023

Fury over policing tactics has changed dimension of protests against plan to raise retirement age

The depth of the domestic crisis facing Emmanuel Macron can be measured by the growing university barricades and packed student assemblies where angry young people have gathered in recent days to intensify protests and help teenage high-school pupils blockade their lycées.

20/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Vancouverites protesting in 2018 after Trudeau pledged $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The public cost has leapt to $30.9 billion. Photo by Darryl Dyck via The Canadian Press.

Mar. 20, 2023

Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.

18/03/23
Author: 
Susan Rosenthal
Health care rally in Canada in 2016. (Council of Canadians/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Mar. 14, 2023

Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.

17/03/23
Author: 
Al Jazerra and News Agencies
French firefighters during a demonstration near Place de la Concorde in Paris after the French government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote on March 16, 2023 [Thomas Samson/AFP]
 

Protests rage after the French leader bypassed opposition and used a special constitutional power to raise the retirement age.

 

French riot police used batons, tear gas and water cannons to clear demonstrators from a central Paris square where a crowd of thousands had gathered to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform.

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