Andreas Malm’s latest book calls for rapid escalation by the global climate movement into the realm of sabotage and property destruction. Image by Canadian Dimension, adapted from a photo by…
Protesters at Queen’s Park in Toronto, June 6, 2020. Photo by Michael Swan/Flickr. On January 28, the Independent Investigation Unit (IIU) of Manitoba announced that the Winnipeg Police officer who…
Activists and land defenders protest in downtown Winnipeg. Photo by Alexander Decebal-Cuza/The Manitoban. Amidst the ongoing chaos of COVID-19, Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives are attempting to ram through a bill that…
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century Andreas Malm Verso, 2020 One of the left’s richest traditions is the polemical pamphlet written amidst crisis. Who can forget…
Headingley Correctional Centre, a provincial jail on the western edge of Winnipeg, is among the sites hardest hit by the pandemic. As of Friday, October 30, the jail had 69…
44-year-old Richard Kakish passed away after an incident involving the Winnipeg Police in August 2017. Richard died after being kicked and repeatedly punched by officers during an arrest. Photo supplied…
Toronto Police arresting a man for illegal possession of alcohol, September 16, 1916. Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada. On a Saturday afternoon in mid-January, Winnipeg musician John K.…
Barbed wire along a prison wall. Photo from iStock. Along with the North, the Prairies is the most heavily incarcerated region in the country. Canada has a national incarceration rate…
Clean technology is not a panacea for climate change. Photo by ThoroughlyReviewed/Flickr. The catastrophic economic fallout from COVID-19–millions unemployed, skyrocketing food bank usage, uncertain job futures–has provided a major boost…
A cyclist talks to a Winnipeg Police Service officer. Photo by Dave Shaver/Flickr. Allen Mankewich is a disabled resident of downtown Winnipeg. His handcycle was stolen in May. Although he…
Winnipeggers gathered in the cold outside of the Winnipeg Police Headquarters in early March to demand justice after a police shooting left Machuar Madut, 43, dead. Photo by Quincy Houdayer/The…
Winnipeg police officer at work. Photo by Dave Shaver (Flickr). Late last month, Arthur Desjarlais, a 38-year-old Indigenous man, was sentenced to 110 days in jail for six separate thefts…
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh speaks at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on Sunday, October 15, 2017. Photo by Obert Madondo (Flickr). It’s now been four days since the right-wing coup…
The Ellice Liquor Mart in downtown Winnipeg. Photo by Austin Grabish/CBC Winnipeg’s media outlets are salivating at the chance to create a moral panic over alleged liquor store thefts. Nearly…
Public buses line a busy street in Ottawa. Photo by Dylan Passmore (Flickr). We are now only days away from the federal election, with the Liberals and Conservatives locked in…
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister has called a snap election for September 10, over a year before required under the province’s fixed election law. It would be a mistake to think…
Photo by Juan Barreto After months of sabre-rattling from Venezuelan opposition forces led by Juan Guaidó, a small and pitiful coup attempt finally erupted in the streets of Caracas on…
Photo by Festival of Faiths On Tuesday, Winnipeg mayor Brian Bowman delivered a press conference calling for Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian rights activist and New York-based co-chair of the…
Photo by US Bureau of Land Management Our world is on the brink of climate catastrophe. Most of us are keenly aware of the fact: it has embedded itself within…
Earlier this week, the federal government published a bombshell report on carbon pricing, predicting that a nationwide price of $50 per tonne by 2022 will cut emissions by 80 to…
