Toronto police used the spectre of terrorism to quietly build up permanent surveillance infrastructure for a threat that never came. Its centrepiece is a counter-drone system that may be linked to the...

Decades ago, Olivia Chow learned the hard way what happens when police board members criticize the police. She wouldn’t be the last. In her first official “Cops and the City” column…

The police service and police association have been pushing comms campaigns on the city, designed to secure funding increases whether crime goes up or down, organizer and researcher Aliya Pabani explains.

Organizer and researcher Aliya Pabani takes us through key moments from the last six years of policing…

The embattled literary organization is no longer sponsored by Scotiabank, Indigo or the Azrieli Foundation, organizers confirmed. The Grind spoke to several authors about what this means for the…

The police service and police association have been pushing comms campaigns on the city, designed to secure funding increases whether crime goes up or down, organizer and researcher Aliya Pabani…

The police service and police association have been pushing comms campaigns on the city, designed to secure funding increases whether crime goes up or down, organizer and researcher Aliya Pabani…

Aliya Pabani played a role in pushing Scotiabank to cut ties with Israel's largest weapons manufacturer with No Arms in the Arts.

Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam says York demanded changes to her exhibition critiquing university repression of pro-Palestine protest. Then the admin fired the curator, a decision dozens of faculty members…

Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam says York demanded changes to her exhibition critiquing university repression of pro-Palestine protest. Then the admin fired the curator, a decision dozens of faculty members…

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Thanks to all of you for coming today! I’m excited to be reading 83% Perfect with Fan Wu and Jody Chan. We will do a performance of the entire book. I’m really happy to be here with these two becaus...

At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.

Boycotts of Israel and institutions supportive of the occupation of Palestine were a fringe activity just a couple years ago. But artists across the country have made them impossible to ignore.

On November 13th 2023, a little over month into Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, the Giller Prize held its annual televised gala to award Canada’s biggest fiction prize. The broadcast was di…

On November 13th 2023, a little over month into Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, the Giller Prize held its annual televised gala to award Canada’s biggest fiction prize. The broadcast was disrupted twice by protestors who entered the room to spotlight the prize’s main sponsor, Scotiabank, and its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israeli’s […]

No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide

Carney touts expanded militarism and AI-hype as the right way to defend Canadians

The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community

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