B.C.’s Minister of Education Mike Bernier recently fired the Vancouver School Board arguing that it had “misplaced focus on political tactics rather than responsible stewardship.” Arguments such as these are often used to imbue “common sense” to plans to privatize education and turn…
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International Struggles
Risk of Another Round of Disaster Aid to Haiti to Reinforce U.S. Domination
This article was originally published on Counterpunch and is republished with the permission of the authors
The…
United Nations issues emergency aid appeal for Haiti after Hurricane Matthew slams…
Editor’s note: Roger Annis is a long-time Haiti solidarity activist based in Vancouver. He has long published…
Challenging the Canadian race/national assumptions under BC’s “foreign investor”…
On Tuesday August 2nd the government of British Columbia placed a new tax on “foreign” investment in housing. The…
Resistance continues against the state massacre of teachers in Oaxaca
On Sunday, June 19, 2016, members of Oaxaca’s Sección 22 teachers union and hundreds of students, parents, and…
Canada Has Blood On Its Hands – Justice in Honduras Requires a U-Turn in…
On April 21st First Nations women leaders and legal and human rights activists called on the Canadian government to…
Understanding and Opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement: By…
Pic from Common Dreams
By Harold Lavender
Corporations continue to pursue their agenda to rule the world through…
You can’t vote against the free market – Lessons from the Greek struggle…
In September the Alliance Against Displacement (formerly Social Housing Alliance) began a discussion group series…
Hope Against Oblivion – The Ayotzinapa to Ottawa Caravan
On September 26, 2014, Mexican security forces killed 6 people and forcibly disappeared 43…
Unist’ot’en Oppose Bill C-51
Deep in the forest, surrounded by the rapid on-going destruction of ancient lands, there grows a powerful place…