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Tamara Filyavich a rencontré le professeur et organisateur pour les droits de travailleurs en éducation, Alex Pelchat pour son analyse de l'impact de la réouverture des écoles primaires et des garderies, proposé par le gouvernement provincial. L'entrevue fait le point sur la situation des écoles publiques au Québec, avant la pendemie, l'abscence des équipements de protection personelles et sur les...

Our first home record in the COVID era. We wake up to some breezy tunes, and check-in with Jerry Paper about his upcoming album

What happens when Data, Visual Design and Social Justice meet? To answer that question I talked with architect and environmental designer, Ahmad Barclay about Data Visualization and Infographics, and how they can be used as tools for social change. Ahmad works with Visualizing Palestine, an initiative that creates data-driven tools and visuals to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Pa...

Recently the canadian embassy in Israel celebrated Canadians who currently serve in the Israeli army as Lone Soldiers. The ambassador even went as far as saying: “We both share a love of Canada and a love of Israel. We at the embassy are very proud of what you’re doing.” If encouraging Canadians to enroll in a foreign military wasn’t bizarre enough, encouraging Canadians to join an occupation army...

Growing global demand for cheap vegetable oil for processed food, biofuel and cosmetics is a key factor behind land grabs across Africa. There are many Canadian connections to this story, including the agribusiness company Feronia, which now stands accused of complicity in the murder of an activist and the incarceration of five others in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Gwen talks to Devlin K...

Graphic designer, Tré Seals, discovered that only only 3–3.5% of all practicing designers in the US are Black. That number is dramatically lower when we talk about Typeface designers in particular. So, Tré decided to infuse more of his identity into the design world via the most basic design element used in everything, Typography. He founded the typeface foundry, Vocal Type, and designed several t...

Filministes est un nouveau festival qui a débuté en 2018 à Montréal. Cette année est la 3ème édition de ce festival féministe de cinéma. Le festival rapproche les féminismes et le cinéma en organisant des discussions sur des enjeux féministes par le biais de la projection d'œuvres cinématographiques. Ainsi, le festival a pour mission d’apporter un regard féministe et critique sur divers enjeux de...

4 upcoming events are taking place in Montreal in the next days: Event 1 (March 6): Screening focusing on Israel Lobby in US. Event 2 (March 10): Yves Engler new book launch. House of Mirrors: Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy. Event 3 (March 12): Round table about Greenwashing Colonialism and Environmental Racism from Tibet to Palestine. Event 4 (March 13): Tarek Loubani’s talk about Gaza and new G...

Since 2008, no boats from the Free Gaza Movement were allowed to Gaza. Since then, the Freedom Flotilla faced many challenges, from the deadly attack on the Mavi Marmara of 2010 to the Greek complicity of 2011, from the sabotage of Gaza's ship in 2013 to the bombing of the ship in 2014. The list goes on to include detention of activists, false accusations, and confiscation of boats. But despite th...

Kanahsohon (Kevin Deer) is a Kanien’kehá:ka elder from Kahnawà:ke, and is currently the acting Vice-President - Academics at the First Nations Technical Insititute (FNTI) in Tyendinaga. In this interview, he speaks about the ongoing rail blockades - part of a wave of solidarity actions in support of Wet'suwet'en land defenders - from his own perspective. Then the conversation shifts to Indigenous...

Suhrid Manchanda was a force in Montreal's music community before decamping to the United States and eventually to New Dehli, India. He was studying at McGil but ultimately spent most of his time playing guitar around the city. The mighty Detroit Metal, the unforgettable Bloody Gashes, with Chloe Lum, Yannick Desranleau and Joel Taylor were both Suhrid's babies. He formed Aum Supreme with Dane Mil...

One of the digital sights we see all around us on a daily basis is words! We are exposed to hundreds of typefaces every day by the simple act of reading the world that surrounds us. Phones, computers, tablets, TVs, books, documents, street signs, posters, menus and the list goes on of examples of platforms that show us text every day. Typefaces are important to convey a variety of messages and sto...

One of the main tools used by apartheid apologists is smear campaigns. The goal is often to intentionally tarnish the reputation of anyone who dares to acknowledge Palestinians as human beings who have rights too. Fighting Facts with Lies, is the essence of these politically motivated campaigns against any group or individuals who have any criticism of the Israeli government and the Israeli occupa...

Most university economics students are exposed to mainly one school of economic thought: Neoclassical Economics. For students to have an education that promotes critical thinking and an understanding of economic events and policies, they must gain exposure to alternative perspectives, the so-called 'heterodox' schools. The Expanding Economics Podcast aims to shift the focus in economics by discuss...

This week, Palestine-solidarity activists in Canada achieved yet another victory related to the problematic IHRA re-definition of antisemitism. After Vancouver and Calgary, Montreal became the 3d Canadian city where apartheid apologists tried to pass a motion that would make the city adopt the controversial IHRA re-definition, and like the other 2 cities, the motion was stopped in Montreal as well...

CKUT 90.FM Montreal's Tuesday Morning Show's Interview with Tona Ohama, a Canadian recording artist who in the 1980's made stellar Minimal Wave Music from his parents Potato Farm in Rural Alberta. Tona flew under the radar through his career, but the spot light was shone on him after he appeared on the Stones Throw Records compilation, Minimal Wave Tapes, put together By Veronica Vasicka. Follow T...

For years, Alternatives center has had a Palestinian flag painted on its roof. The flag is big and seen from afar on a busy street of Montreal. I had with me in studio Michel Lambert, the Executive Director of Alternatives, to talk to us more about the story behind the mural, what kind of reactions the center got for having a Palestinian flag drawn on its roof, and did the center deal with any rep...

For a brief moment before the election, human rights activists in Canada got optimistic when the NDP responded positively to the #IVotePalestine questionnaire. After the election, this optimism quickly turned into disappointment. when NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, suddenly attacked BDS, praised the colonial state-building project of Israel and defended the merits of the problematic IHRA re-definition...

For a brief moment in November human rights activists in Canada got optimistic when Canada voted, for the first time in 14 years, ‘Yes’ on a UN resolution that supports Palestinians’ right to self-determination. This ‘Yes’ vote was quickly overshadowed by a stream of ‘No’ votes Canada subsequently presented on the remaining Palestine-focused UN resolutions that was voted on in the following weeks...

Recently Hillel McGill approached student executives in various student organisations to offer them free trips to Israel organized by Hillel Montreal. On Oct. 15 SSMU sent a letter to Hillel McGill raising concerns over the lack of transparency of the invitation process, the trip’s purpose was kept ambiguous and the selection process of the students wasn’t explained. Subsequently, several addition...

Augmented Reality often reminds us of Pokemon Go or Instagram stories. It is the addition of virtual elements to the real world. But, beyond the commercial gimmicks and trends, AR has a great creative potential for artists. Painters, graffiti artists, print artists, poets and even publishers have used it in their work. But, the potential also comes with its technical challenges, which is making ma...

One of the digital sights you might have seen lately is what is known as the Extinction logo. You've seen it printed on posters, protest banners, shared online and even projected on buildings. The logo surpassed the digital world and is now being drawn on the walls in cities around the world. The logo, created in 2011, seems to have been gaining momentum only recently and is quickly becoming the s...

In November, activists in Calgary received news of a new motion to be voted on by the Calgary city council on Nov. 18. Among other things, the motion wanted Calgary to adopt a new controversial IHRA re-redefinition of antisemitism (noihra.ca). This same definition was rejected last August by the Vancouver City Council. Anti-apartheid activists in Calgary mobilized immediately against the motion, b...

On Nov. 20th, Israeli soldiers were invited to York University as part of an event organized by the pro-apartheid group Herut Canada. A large number of York students showed up at the event to protest the presence of occupation soldiers on their campus. Unfortunately, protesters were met with verbal and physical attacks, mainly due to the presence of the JDL, a pro-apartheid off-campus extremist gr...