On Wednesday May 19th, the City of Toronto sent a massive force to clear the encampment at Lamport Stadium Park. Roughly 60 City of Toronto corporate security guards and police officers (including eight on horseback), six people in Hazmat suits, a [...]
By Cam Scott As the Executive Policy Committee of Winnipeg’s City Council rushes to pass its 2021 budget, it’s hard not to see this document as a direct rebuke to community health and a show of deadly complacency against a growing social [...]
At a time when Indigenous and Black communities and anti-racist activists have shone a critical light on police budgets and practices across the country, it’s pretty shocking to learn that oil corporations have been gifting police forces with money [...]
By Alex Geddie In some ways, the spring lockdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic came as a boon to the Canadian state, which, over the winter of 2019-2020, saw a series of increasingly successful examples of resistance to its colonial [...]
By Colleen Burke On June 25, Mark Austin and Candace Zinkweg were walking their dog in Dentonia Park in Toronto’s east end. When their dog was bitten by an off-leash dog, they confronted the dogs’ owners who quickly became very aggressive and [...]
By Alykhan Pabani United in action, Toronto’s tenants descended upon John Tory’s private residence on July 6, intending to deliver a mock eviction notice to the mayor. After years of casting futile ballots, petitioning groomed staffers and [...]
The massive uprising in response to the racist police murder of George Floyd has sparked huge protests across Canada. To look at what this means for building the movement against racism and police brutality, People’s Voice editor Dave McKee spoke [...]
In a statement published June 2, the Communist Party of Canada has expressed its full solidarity to the ongoing uprising against racist police murders. “We salute all those standing against racism and demanding justice for those murdered by police [...]
Canada has a racism problem (and the fact so many Canadians think we don't is a part of it) Perhaps after an election where Justin Trudeau was exposed for having worn blackface on several occasions and yet not only was not forced to resign as [...]
The systemic racism directed at Indigenous peoples and Black communities in Canada has been recognized for decades, but little progress is being made. Recent reports indicate that the situation may be getting worse.
