How was it that a formal complaint against a racist professor managed to escalate into one of the largest student riots in Canadian history? 

On Feb. 11, 1969, the Montreal police violently put down one of the largest student occupations in Canadian history. For two weeks, as many as 300 students had peacefully occupied the computer centre at Sir George Williams University to protest a racist professor’s treatment of Black students, and the administration’s complicity in defending him.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday against the legality of affirmative action admissions practices at colleges and universities. Ruling on two distinct cases, the court declared the admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina to be unlawful.

After months of media frenzy over Roxham Road, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals announced late in March that they are closing the door to the thousands of asylum-seekers entering Canada through the United States.

In the last few weeks, we have witnessed a new iteration of the debate on immigration in Quebec, which is taking an increasingly dark turn. With a growing number of asylum seekers in Canada, a significant portion of whom are passing through Quebec via the notorious Roxham Road, a xenophobic, anti-immigrant discourse is also gaining momentum. The labour movement must oppose this anti-immigrant rhetoric.

For more than a week, the nomination by Justin Trudeau of Amira Elghawaby as special advisor in the fight against Islamophobia has created a storm. This is yet another symbolic and empty gesture by the Trudeau Liberals to portray themselves as fighters against oppression. Meanwhile, the nomination brought a big backlash in Quebec, with the CAQ nationalists leading the charge to demand her resignation for past comments on Quebec.

Outrage at police violence has erupted once again across the United States. Protests began in Memphis on Friday, January 27, following the release of video showing the barbaric and fatal police beating of 29-year-old photographer and FedEx worker, Tyre Nichols. The protests then spread to at least 38 cities nationwide.

A report released the morning of June 6 definitively proves there’s a systemic racism problem in the Toronto Police Service (TPS). Data shows that people of colour were significantly overrepresented in the 949 use of force incidents that occured in 2020. In particular, 39 per cent of people Toronto police used force against were Black […]

The morning of Sunday, May 15 in Buffalo, NY saw scenes of horror as a white supremacist terrorist opened fire at a supermarket, murdering ten people and injuring three more. Almost all of those killed were Black, as the shooter had intentionally targeted a grocery store with a majority-Black clientele. This is an utter tragedy […]

Sometime during the first week of March, 28-year-old Indigenous man Dakota Sagutch went missing. He was last seen on March 3 or 4 in the Pearl Street area of Thunder Bay, Ontario. After nearly a week, Thunder Bay police finally began to look into the disappearance, possibly far too late to make a difference. Tragically, […]