Poster courtesy Fridays For Future Ottawa After this summer’s flooding, record rainfall, and wildfire smoke, the effects of climate change are all too evident for Ottawa residents. The extreme weat…

Anishinabe Algonquin Days (September 18-19, 2026) image from Anishinabe Algonquin Nation / City of Ottawa event page The land, water, natural environment we live in, and our relationships with and …

The Keeping Criminals Behind Bars Act uses real human suffering to manufacture a political grievance

In his first comments since trade talks broke down, President Donald Trump said Canada "wants the benefits" of being a U.S. state "without being one." The president's brief post on his Truth Social pl...

Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

On July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, at a meeting organized by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Frederick Douglass

Chronic underfunding, not financial mismanagement, is the problem in Ontario schools. Year after year they are asked to do more with less.

The press freedom court case heads towards its conclusion and could decide the future of press freedom. Discover the latest updates.

We all want dignity, safety & stability. Bill C-12 undermines those shared goals and would import harmful US policies that target asylum seekers and migrants, putting our friends & neighbours at risk....

The No More Loopholes Act will go to a vote in Parliament at the end of February. The critical window to act to pressure MPs to vote for it is right now.

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

O-Train – D. Deby photo Following weeks of consultations and committee deliberations, the City’s 2026 budget goes to Ottawa City Council on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025 for a final decision. The …

Indigenous Services Canada and the Department of Justice must be overhauled to end their discriminatory practices and harm to First Nations children.

Join Massy Books, Goose Lane Editions, Deondre Smiles and Patty Krawec for the launch of, "Bad Indians Book Club", Oct 2nd at Massy Books!

Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The Anishinaabe Ukrainian author and activist recommends 18 titles to read today and beyond.

The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping ...

Image via Climate Justice Ottawa In the previous post, I wrote about problematic federal and provincial “nation-building” legislation, and alternatives that move towards a just and sustainable futu…

A leaked recording of day one of the summit between Canada and First Nations chiefs shows the level of distrust with the government.

Indigenous leaders appearing before the Senate encourage Prime Minister Mark Carney to rewrite Bill C-5 to include Indigenous rights.

If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill