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TORONTO—“The soldiers came and killed my brother and grandfather,” said Diego Santiago Cedillo. The Maya Ixil man and genocide survivor was testifying on March 26, 2013, as part of the case against former Guatemalan President José EfraÃn RÃos Montt.
The encampment at the University of Toronto’s King’s College Circle, referred to by those there as the Peoples’ Circle for Palestine, had grown to nearly 200 tents by its fourth day, May 5, up from the initial 55 when students took over the area. They are demanding the university divest from companies and institutions with ties to Israel and its military.
While thousands of Mexicans continue seeking the so-called “Canadian dream” for a better life — despite visa requirements being reinstated in February — former Leamington farm worker Alberto Moreno defines it as an "illusion."
University of Toronto (U of T) is ground zero for pro-Palestinian activism in Canada as Occupy for Palestine (O4P) mobilized encampments at King’s Colleg
At 4 a.m. on Thursday, May 2, Occupy for Palestine (O4P) mobilized encampments at the University of Toronto’s (U of T) Kings College Circle.
At least 11 people were killed in Canadian police actions in April 2024, matching March as the deadliest month of policing so far this year. This brings the total number of people killed in police actions to at least 31 over the first third of the year. These deaths include people who were directly killed by police, as in police shootings, or died during police deployments, police chases, or in police custody.
Dev Ramsawakh is a disabled, transmasculine, and diasporic Indo-Caribbean multidisciplinary storyteller, producer, and educator.
Emergency Response Team (ERT) officers shot and killed Nona McEwan and Randy Crosson on March 29, 2019, in the home they had shared in Surrey, British Columbia.
Solidarity spreads fast. As the wave of student encampments has grown on postsecondary campuses across the United States, in protest of academia’s collusion with Israeli apartheid and its ongoing war in Gaza, students at McGill and Concordia Universities have followed suit. On Saturday, April 27, they erected camps on the grounds of McGill in downtown Montreal.
