Blurred boundaries

Blurred boundaries

Canada's expanding right-to-die laws stir debate over vulnerability and consent, writes Mattha Busby.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Mixed Media: Hot Docs

Mixed Media: Hot Docs

Highlights from the 2023 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift and Heather Macdonald.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Image created by Julie Flett for We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp, published by Orca Book Publishers.Illustration: Julie Flett

Land back

For generations, Indigenous-led actions have been pushing for the return of traditional lands across the US and Canada. Riley Yesno explores how that spirit has been turned into a movement – embodied in schemes to redistribute wealth from non-Indigenous hands.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Some of the plaintiffs in this long quest for justice – Angelica Choc (the widow of Adolfo Ich Chamán), Irma Yolanda Choc Cac and Irma Yolanda Choc Quib.Photo: Rights Action

‘Our whole truth will come out’

Roxana Olivera reports on the indigenous women who could make legal history by holding a Canadian mining company to account for its operatives overseas.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Lost childhood: a memorial outside British Columbia's parliament remembers over 200 children whose remains where found in the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops.Photo: Wirestock/Alamy

Heavy truth

Canada finds the unmarked graves of 215 indigenous children.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Hot Docs

Hot Docs

Documentary highlights from the 2021 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Homecoming

Homecoming

US First Nations people vs colonial boundaries.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Illustration: Steve Munday

Investor rex

The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.

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NI 517 - Trade in Turmoil - January, 2019
Indigenous lives matter

Indigenous lives matter

Update from Canada by Janet Nicol.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Indigenous rights activists after the ‘Unsettle Canada Day 150 Picnic’ in Toronto, Ontario. Photo: Mark Blinch / Reuters

No celebration of colonization

That is the demand of many First Nations people during Canada’s year-long jamboree to mark its 150th anniversary of confederation. Sian Griffiths reports.

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
It may be cold outside, but the welcome is warm: Ann and Nick (left) with the Al Khatoufs.Photo: Vicky Assad

A personal welcome

In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere? Sian Griffiths reports.

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NI 501 - Populism rises again - April, 2017
Canadian teachers’ union victorious

Canadian teachers’ union victorious

The determination of thousands of teachers in Canada has finally paid off, writes Janet Nicol.

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NI 500 - The exceptionally brave - 500th issue - March, 2017
Trudeau Trumped

Trudeau Trumped

Richard Swift considers the Trump effect on Canada's prime minister.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
CETA in the house

CETA in the house

Campaigners hope to stop CETA before it goes through the European Parliament, Amy Hall writes.

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NI 497 - Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears - November, 2016

How the Dutch could derail CETA

As thousands discuss free trade at the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada’s experience with NAFTA may offer lessons for the Netherlands, writes Niels Jongerius.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
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Introducing... Justin Trudeau

Richard Swift on Canada's new prime minister.

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NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015
A girl attends a rally to remember missing and murdered indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Valentine's Day, 2015.Photo: Sergei Bachlakov/Xinhua/Alamy

An open wound

Janet Nicol reports on Canada's Highway of Tears.

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NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Palestine July, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Trade in Turmoil January, 2019
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Populism rises again April, 2017
The exceptionally brave - 500th issue March, 2017
African village January, 2017
Peace in Colombia? Hope and fears November, 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists August, 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Love in the time of Ebola June, 2016
10 economic myths December, 2015
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
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