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Articles about Canada, ordered by date. 
The Interview: Jacob Pirro
‘People are very angry’. Canadian climate activist Jacob Pirro meets Paula Lacey to discuss being locked up for taking direct action, and what motivates him.
Climate repression
Canada’s harsh crackdown on bridge-climbing activists exposes the growing criminalization of climate protests, writes Paula Lacey.
Blurred boundaries
Canada's expanding right-to-die laws stir debate over vulnerability and consent, writes Mattha Busby.
Mixed Media: Hot Docs
Highlights from the 2023 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift and Heather Macdonald.
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.
‘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.
Heavy truth
Canada finds the unmarked graves of 215 indigenous children.
Hot Docs
Documentary highlights from the 2021 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.
Wet’suwet’en: Gas pipeline battle
Report from Canada by Husna Rizvi
Investor rex
The beast that won’t lie down and die – the ISDS ‘investor protection’ racket is still with us, in all but name.
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.
A personal welcome
In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere? Sian Griffiths reports.
Canadian teachers’ union victorious
The determination of thousands of teachers in Canada has finally paid off, writes Janet Nicol.
Trudeau Trumped
Richard Swift considers the Trump effect on Canada's prime minister.
CETA in the house
Campaigners hope to stop CETA before it goes through the European Parliament, Amy Hall writes.
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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