Over the past few months, a scandal has erupted around the Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, after he rescinded an offer given to legal scholar Valentina Azarova to lead the faculty’s International Human Rights Program.
On September 27, 2020, following the issuing of a wave of arrest warrants by Turkish authorities, Canadian permanent resident and Carleton PhD student Cihan Erdal was arrested.
By Thomas Colbourne, YCL-LJC member in Ottawa
Canada was one of the first countries to support the Bolivian coup government, and continues to allow mining companies to do business in Bolivia despite atrocities committed by Áñez’s regime.
Please submit your proposals, questions, and submissions by November 7th, 2020. Veuillez soumettre vos propositions, questions et soumissions avant le 7 novembre 2020.
The Roehampton Hotel near Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton opened up as a shelter on July 3rd, 2020, and has been the subject of significant controversy.
By Tyson Riel Strandlund, Communist Party of Canada candidate for Langford-Juan de Fuca.
The YCL-LJC takes up the call for international solidarity with the political prisoners in the United States, arrested on September 17th, for organizing in the anti-racist movement and demanding justice for George Floyd, Elijah McClain, and other victims of racist police brutality in the United States.
The Young Communist League of Canada echoes the call of progressive Filipino youth for national democracy and peace, and against the extrajudicial killings and vicious attacks on land and human rights defenders in the Philippines by the Duterte regime.
The Central Committee of the YCL-LJC expresses utmost solidarity with the youth protesters at the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the island of Lesbos.
