Political Profiling: The Habs, Instagram and the SPVM
April 18th, 2013 | by Jason C. McLean
They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Montreal’s police force, the SPVM, is now openly engaging in political profiling.
Browsing the "Activism" Tag
‘There is no right to protest’: Montreal police deny Charter rights
March 26th, 2013 | by Ethan Cox
"This is approaching absurdist comedy," tweeted Montreal Gazette reporter Christopher Curtis Friday night, trapped in a police kettle
Free Pussy Riot!
March 1st, 2013 | by Melanie Renaud
Some of you, I’d like to think most of you, would have heard about the Russian feminist punk-rock collective Pussy
One Billion Rising
February 7th, 2013 | by Taymaz Valley
At least one in three women experience abuse be it sexual or physical in their lifetime. Statistics show that on
Wal-Mart: Helping to Keep America Poor
November 26th, 2012 | by Quiet Mike
Last week, Wal-Mart employees took to the picket lines to protest low wages and poor benefits on the busiest shopping day of the year. Black Friday protests took place in over a hundred cities in 47 States and attracted thousands of other activists outside of the company. The nationwide, yet semi-isolated strikes may have brought a little more awareness toward the general public, but it did very little to dissuade Americans from partaking in one of their favorite pastimes; shopping
100th Nightly Student Demonstration
August 6th, 2012 | by Emily Campbell
On the 100th nightly demonstration, and the first demonstration since the announcement of provincial elections this September, reporter Emily Campbell interviews students and critics about the future of the student movement and their attitude towards the provincial elections
South Africa’s transition to democracy could have served as a model for Egypt
June 21st, 2012 | by David DesBaillets
There’s reason to believe that the fledgling democracy in the largest Arabic country in the world is in grave peril. Sadly, more than a year after the Egyptian people rose up in revolt and overthrew the kleptocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak, in a relatively peaceful revolution, the remnants of the old deeply corrupt establishment are coming back to haunt them... Why the architects of the revolution didn’t look to the South African model for making the transition democracy with a strong set of checks and balances, is beyond me
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights criticizes Quebec
June 18th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
In an opening address to be delivered today to the 47 member UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will express her "alarm" at ongoing attempts to restrict freedom of assembly in Quebec
“We can’t start the revolution from Starbucks” – For Quebec, for OUR budget, join us in the streets!
June 12th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
This Wednesday we need your voice. We only need to borrow it for a few hours, and I promise you'll enjoy its use. It needs to be raised in unison with others across the country and around the world
Quebec’s Tears of Entitlement – Canada’s Shame
June 10th, 2012 | by Mike Gwilliam
As a student living in Ontario, I pay more for tuition than Quebec students. I don't have any scholarships. I pay full price. If I was told I would be paying around $450+ more a year, I honestly wouldn't care. I really fail to see why students in Quebec are taking this so difficultly. It makes me laugh, and ashamed, that I have to share a country with a province that comes across as having such a sense of entitlement
We are all Quebecers: Chilean students
June 9th, 2012 | by ftbstaffposts
The following is an open letter signed by 109 Chilean student leaders and academics: The undersigned Chilean academics and student leaders denounce before the national and international public opinion the persecution of the Quebec student movement in Canada, as expressed in Bill 78, enacted on Thursday May 19 by the Provincial Government of Premier Jean Charest. Bill 78, the "truncheon law", is the most severe piece of legislation
Love is the movement: it starts in Quebec, but it will not end here…
June 9th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Our world is upside down, and somehow we have been convinced that walking on the ceiling is normal. But this unsustainable balance of power is a house of cards, a carefully maintained illusion which depends entirely on our subservience to it. If we walk away from our televisions, break the bonds of our isolation and talk to each other about our dreams, our desires, we realize we are neither alone, nor crazy
Amir Khadir arrested, our democracy under siege
June 6th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
Charest has got to go. Not in a few months, but now. He has taken a broadsword to the fabric of our democracy. He has arrested over 3000 peaceful demonstrators, more than during the October Crisis. He has ignored the will of the people, the very people whose consent he requires to govern
The city’s newest festival
June 6th, 2012 | by Jason C. McLean
Montreal’s newest festival has already begun. It runs every night, features music, athleticism and is very inclusive. It visits all
When Pride turns to Vanity: The case against Fierté Montreal
June 5th, 2012 | by Julian H Ward
As the gayest week of summer slowly sashays our way, organizers of Montreal’s pride festivities may have more to worry
Playing to the Suburbs: The Failure of the Quebec Student Movement
June 5th, 2012 | by Jimmy Gutman
Imagine you’re a suburbanite. You live in Laval, Quebec or the West Island. Turn on your TVs, surf to Google News, read your newspapers, twist that dial to your favourite radio station; what do you hear, what are you reading? The protesters in Montreal have, again, done something bad. They broke a window, they woke up an old frail grandma, they threw some smoke bombs, or, maybe (oh the horror) they stopped traffic for an hour
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