Only a few police agencies in Canada are subject to any oversight or mechanism of accountability. Even those are not independent or civilian bodies. The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in Ontario is often presented as the model example for civilian oversight of the police.
On International Women's Day 2021 we are publishing this excerpt from Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism fo
Unceded Territory of theSkwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in So-called Burnaby BC
A sharp increase in police presence and movement seemed like overkill given all the police already at the intersection at the Clark Drive and East Hastings, where a port entrance was being blockaded in East Vancouver earlier this week, starting on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. Although the protest was peaceful, police shut down the blockade just over 24 hours after it began.
Unceded Territory of theSkwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in So-called Burnaby BC
A 35-year old Filipino meat-processing plant worker died on January 28, 2021, after contracting the coronavirus linked to his work, CBC reports.
Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He also played a central role in the #aHand2Hold campaign, which won a victory against one aspect of medical colonialism in Quebec in 2018.
Belo Sun, a Canadian-based mining company with most of its operations in Brazil, has been called out for its activities in the Amazon forest disrupting the environment and trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples.
At least ten people were killed by police or died through some interaction with police in Canada in February 2021. This follows a deadly January in which there were at least seven police-involved deaths in Canada.
A Filipina caregiver is fighting for her
