On Dec. 18 far-right politicians Maxime Bernier and Randy Hillier plan to bring an anti-vax mob to X (Ryerson) University to deny Indigenous genocide and say that statues are more important than thousands of dead Indigenous children. This is a blatant act of provocation against the democratic will of students to change the name of […]

The NDP leadership likes to present themselves as supporters of Indigenous people, but in the Wet’suwet’en struggle the sad reality is that the B.C. NDP is primarily responsible for this violation of Indigenous rights. The federal NDP is not much better, issuing equivocal statements in order to camouflage the actions of their provincial counterparts. It […]

The city of Iqaluit, capital of Nunavut, has been under a state of emergency since Oct. 12 due to contamination of their water supply. Residents started to voice growing concerns over foul-smelling tap water as early as Oct 2. On Oct 4, the city inspected the water treatment plant, taking samples from half a dozen […]

Members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation enforced an eviction order against Coastal GasLink (CGL) on Sunday, Nov. 14, ordering the corporation to cease operations and leave Wet’suwet’en territory. The eviction order was originally issued by the hereditary chiefs of all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en in January 2020. In February of that […]

Inuit parents have launched a lawsuit against the Government of Nunavut for its failure to provide Inuktut language schooling to students. The two parents, along with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI)—the corporation that legally represents the Inuit of Nunavut in treaty negotiations—assert that the government is violating the constitutional rights of Inuit children to not be […]

On Monday, Nov. 15, a packed room of 70 people came to attend our event on “The Indigenous struggle and the fight for socialism” held at Concordia University in Montreal. This was our biggest meeting on campus since 2016! The massive presence at the event is a testament to a major shift in consciousness that […]

The horrors of the residential school system are now known widely across Canada, but Indigenous children are still being taken away from their families in large numbers through the foster care system. This was highlighted recently, when the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that victims of these forced separations should be eligible to receive $40,000 […]

Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is one of the best examples of how the Liberal Party operates. He is thoroughly dishonest, his hypocrisy knows no bounds, and he has a penchant for rewriting history. These are the essentials of the Liberal Party’s program.  While promoting the second volume of his autobiography, Chrétien claimed in two […]

Throughout the summer of 1990, a group of Mohawk activists formed blockades in protest of a golf course expansion which encroached on traditional lands around the town of Oka, Quebec. This led to a standoff with Quebec police and the Canadian military which lasted 78 days. This conflict, known as the Oka crisis, laid bare […]

Canada’s first Day of Truth and Reconciliation was commemorated by the Prime Minister vacationing in Tofino and the RCMP attacking land defenders of the Wet’suwet’en nation. While many hoped this day would mark an improvement in the relationship between the capitalist state and Indigenous communities, it has only proven that reconciliation is dead. To end […]