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Alleged racist slurs and a beating delivered by off duty cops
Vancouver rears its ugly head on the day of Obama's inauguration, beating up a man and telling him that they do not like brown people. ...
Regions: Canada
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Police brutality, Racial discrimination
Dallas Green of City and Colour on the Responsibility of Being an Artist
Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green of City and Colour discusses his involvement with the charity Skate 4 Cancer and the responsibility of artists to use their names to help bring attention to cau...
Regions: Canada
Issues: Health
The Oil Up There: The Most Destructive Project on Earth
In March 2008, a group of concerned citizens from British Columbia, Canada visited possibly the most destructive industrial mega-project in the world. ...
Regions: Canada
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Environment, Indigenous peoples
Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
Regions: Canada, Iran
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Women's rights
Roundup: Highlights this week on the Hub
Several interesting items uploaded to the Hub this week! Be sure to check out these three:
Regions: Bosnia, Canada, United States
Issues: Education, Indigenous peoples, War crimes
Police attack Algonquin families at peaceful blockade
On Monday, October 6, Police officers in Quebec, Canada, used tear gas and "pain compliance" techniques on Algonquin families from Barriere Lake First Nation, who had erected a peaceful blockade to ...
Regions: Canada
Issues: Freedom of opinion & expression, Indigenous peoples, Police brutality
Inuit 'School Survivor' Harold Cook Describes Abuse
NorthWest Territories, Canada: Collective9 is a collection of unedited testimonies by Inuit residential school survivors recounting their own personal experiences....
Regions: Canada
Issues: Detention, Indigenous peoples, Sexual rights
AIDS08: Alison Symington on Women's Rights and Ending the Pandemic
Alison Symington from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network on the need for human rights, and particularly women's rights, to be at the heart of the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; filmed as part of ...
Regions: Canada, Mexico
Issues: Religion, Women's rights
AIDS 08: Richard Pearshouse on Prisoners and HIV-AIDS
Richard Pearshouse, from the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, highlights the importance of prisoner rights, and how human rights for prisoners including access to harm reduction programs can help with...
Regions: Global, Canada, Mexico
Issues: HIV-AIDS, Prisons
The Mountain Movement
Since 2005, The Mountain Movement has evolved a great deal....
