Regions / North America / Canada

Highlights from the 2025 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.

Twin police shootings expose Canada’s hidden crisis of racialized violence, by Changiz M Varzi.

‘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.

Canada’s harsh crackdown on bridge-climbing activists exposes the growing criminalization of climate protests, writes Paula Lacey.

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

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

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.

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

Canada finds the unmarked graves of 215 indigenous children.

Documentary highlights from the 2021 Toronto Festival by Richard Swift.

US First Nations people vs colonial boundaries.

Report from Canada by Husna Rizvi

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

Update from Canada by Janet Nicol.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.