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In September, three reporters from Maclean’s and Discourse Media spent two days in downtown and North Central Regina—at the Cornwall Centre mall, at Victoria Park, in churches, and in residents’ homes—speaking with dozens of Indigenous residents about police interactions.

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Quebec’s ombudsman has released a scathing report on the treatment of Inuit in the provincial justice system. She says the detention conditions are “below current standards” and infringe on the constitutional right to human dignity.

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?Michelle Labrecque pushes herself gingerly in a wheelchair down the hallway of a hotel. The Oneida woman was recently found to have a fractured pelvis, but she says it took three trips to the hospital and increasing pain before she received that diagnosis.

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Published: 30 Jan 2016 11:05 GMT+01:00 A gang of up to a hundred black-clad masked men marched in central Stockholm on Friday evening, singling out and beating up immigrants, and handing out leaflets threatening further violent attacks against unaccompanied refugee youth.

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This is a translation of an article in Russia by Alexei Volynets which appeared here: http://ift.tt/23CNQOo with the title: The Soviet Red Guard: The Soviet Union Needs Mao Zedong. It was published on July 10.

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Kristi Jernigan arrived alone at the Redmond airport from Tennessee with nothing but a carry-on bag and her Bible.

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M.G.’s refrigerator in her apartment in Gilmor Homes, a public housing complex in Baltimore, had been broken for years. She filed numerous work orders seeking to get it fixed or replaced, but nothing ever happened.

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In some ways it doesn’t matter whether we call Donald Trump a fascist or “just” a right-wing populist. However we categorize him, his presidential campaign represents a serious danger.

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Des mesures d’urgence ont été prises et des recherches sont en cours au Centre de détention Rivière-des-Prairies à Montréal pour tenter de retrouver une arme de poing qui aurait été déposée dans la cour de l’établissement par un drone, a appris La Presse.

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Inedible food, no time in the outside yard, overcrowded cells and no access to religious or self-help programs. Muhamad Alhasi told the Sun on Wednesday that he and other inmates in the maximum-security wing — he says dozens — began to refuse meals Tuesday.

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One in five inmates at Canada’s second-largest jail are refusing meals to protest a spate of problems with the new facility ranging from mouldy showers to relentless lockdowns.

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People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Read the rest of this post on the original site at

The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. Read the rest of this post on

Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Overlooked tragedy of Quebec’s aboriginal young

‘When we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee women’s rights,’ write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on fear-mongering against women who wear niqab only has traction if we all collude with its false conclusions. Read the rest

In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning to buy a drink and snack. Then three other girls, teenagers the girl from the mosque didn’t recognize, walked up