On Saturday, Feb. 19, Calgary police killed Latjor Tuel in downtown Calgary in broad daylight. Tuel’s death is the latest example of state-perpetrated violence against racialized people and the police’s inability to deal with those suffering a mental health crisis.  At around 3:40 p.m., police responded to a call of a man brandishing a weapon. […]

On Dec. 18, nearly 200 students, community members, Indigenous activists and workers rallied at X (Ryerson) University to say no to Indigenous genocide denial. The rally was organized as a response to a far-right rally announced by the Ryerson Conservatives, with People’s Party of Canada (PPC) Leader Maxime Bernier and Ontario MPP Randy Hillier—leader of […]

Bill 21 has claimed its first victim. Fatemeh Anvari, an elementary school teacher in the municipality of Chelsea, Outaouais, lost her teaching position because she wears a hijab. In this way, the law has done exactly what it was intended to do by discriminating against someone based on their religion. No one can deny the […]

At 11 a.m. on Nov. 12, between 200 and 250 students attending Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto walked out of their classrooms. They entered the streets chanting “Free Palestine!”, “Hey, hey, TDSB, Palestine will be free”, “TDSB, we will not be silenced!”, “Justice for Javier Davila!” and “Justice for Desmond Cole!”. During the hour […]

Last August, the brutal police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, reignited the flames of the Black Lives Matter movement in the small town of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Thousands came out against racism and police terror as protests again spread, first to Milwaukee, Chicago, and then to major cities from coast to coast. On the […]

Toronto journalist and activist Desmond Cole is currently under fire for saying that we must not just fight anti-Black racism, but also fight anti-Palestinian racism, at an anti-racism seminar held by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Cole also faced significant heat for uttering the words, “Free Palestine”. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) […]

Jean René Junior Olivier, a 38-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in the middle of the street by police in Repentigny, Quebec on Aug. 1. More than a year after the massive protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, which shook the United States and reverberated across Canada, this murder is a reminder […]

With the rise in far-right violence, there is a pressing need for something to be done. This has only increased after Trump’s “insurrection” on Capitol Hill in January this year which made the issue plain to see in the eyes of the world. Many, including the NDP, have called on the federal government to clamp […]

In the wake of the devastating terrorist attack that killed four members of the Afzaal family in London, right-wing media and politicians have had the audacity to downplay Islamophobia in Ontario and scapegoat Quebec for the poison of racism across the country. In typical hypocritical fashion, the Toronto Sun has published an article titled “Calling […]

On Sunday June 6, Nathaniel Veltman purposefully jumped the curb and drove his vehicle into a Muslim family of five in London, Ontario. Tragically, four members of the family have died while the 9 year-old son remains in the hospital. This is the worst incident of racially motivated violence in Canada since the shooting at […]