Halfway through 2022, there have been at least 54 police-involved deaths in Canada. This puts Canadian cops on pace to take even more lives in 2022 than they did in 2021 when there were at least 104 police-involved deaths.
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What: Protest
When: Thursday, June 30 at 6pm
Where: In front of Parc metro station
Steve September was born into the struggle against South African apartheid, and today he is the chair of the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver, a grassroots group working to end all forms of racial inequality through education, legislation, and social events. Scott Neigh interviews him about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he brings to anti-racist organizing based on his involvement in opposing apartheid.
In the two years since George Floyd’s murder at the hands of now-indicted Philadelphia police officer Derek Chauvin, we have witnessed the speed with which governments can elevate activists and their causes. We have also witnessed how quickly these sentiments can be reversed. Despite all of the platitudes and solemnly proclaimed promises of change, activists continue to find themselves facing the brunt of police violence.
Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift are part of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews them about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to make it all happen.
Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by increasing people’s access to substances that are legal, regulated, and safe. Scott Neigh interviews him about the crisis and about the crucial role that a safe supply could play in ending it.
As more people struggle to put food on the table given rising food prices, a new initiative is drawing on the unique knowledge of 35,000 farmers from around the world to increase domestic seed production as a pathway to food security.
The project, run by SeedChange, is the latest initiative of a 10-year-long program working towards rebuilding Canada's domestic seed supply.
FIRST NATIONS STRATEGIC BULLETIN: VOLUME 20, ISSUES 1-5 JANUARY - MAY 2022.
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Lisa Hari and Rosemary Brown are active in We’re Together Ending Poverty (WTEP), a grassroots anti-poverty group in Calgary. Scott Neigh interviews them about what poverty looks like in their city, about the group’s evolution over the years, and about their work to bring people together to build shared understandings and collective action.
At least eight people were killed by police or died through police actions in Canada in May 2022. This follows an April in which there were at least a dozen police-involved deaths in the country. At least five people were killed by Canadian police or died through police actions in March 2022, and there were at least nine police-involved deaths in February and eight in January.
