Our guide to Toronto’s Royal Rumble election
With over 100 candidates and without a People’s Alternative on the ballot, what should young people do on June 26?
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PHOTOS: Bring Our Children Home March, Toronto
On June 6th, 2021, Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and their allies convened at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The week prior, the remains of 215 children were found in an unmarked grave at the former site of Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Photos: Toronto’s Rise Up Shabbat + Memorial for Regis-Korchinski Paquet
On May 21st, YCLers attended IfNotNow’s Rise Up Shabbat against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto. Days later, on May 24th, a memorial for Regis Korchinski-Paquet was held.
Toronto Police Attempt to Disrupt Memorial for Regis Korchinski-Paquet
On Monday, Toronto marked the first anniversary of the killing of Regis Korchinski-Paquet. Toronto-based group Not Another Black Life organized a memorial march for Korchinski-Paquet alongside her family, and organizers were joined by victims of police brutality and their allies.
UofT Faculty of Law Dumps Human Rights Lawyer Over Defence of Palestine
Over the past few months, a scandal has erupted around the Dean of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, after he rescinded an offer given to legal scholar Valentina Azarova to lead the faculty’s International Human Rights Program.
Progressives in Toronto Reject the Bolivian Coup Regime
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.
Toronto’s Roehampton Hotel, COVID-19, and the War on the Homeless
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.