Articles by Chantal Sundaram
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Oct 05, 2020: Fifty years since the “October Crisis”: a not-so-quiet RevolutionThe events of October 1970 are infamous in both English Canada and Quebec for completely different reasons.
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Sep 08, 2020: Film review: The human face of TBA: In Search of Professor PrecariousGerry Potter worked as a contract professor for 27 years, at three different institutions, beloved by his students but stymied...
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Jul 26, 2020: Ottawa’s George Floyd: Abdirahman Abdi“His death caused an awakening.
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Mar 04, 2020: International Women’s Day, 1917: When Russian Women Shook the WorldWhen thousands of women workers in Petrograd, Russia marked International Women’s Day of 1917 with a strike to demand bread,...
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Dec 05, 2019: Vigil against the CAQ’s law against Muslim womenOn December 4, the ad-hoc collective that launched an ongoing campaign against Quebec’s so-called “secularism” law that bans the wearing...
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Oct 22, 2019: Why the Bloc Quebecois?The wild card that determined the outcome of the election is the resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois.
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Oct 02, 2019: 500,000 march in Montreal: Quebec and Climate JusticeLast March, Montréal had the largest turnout in the world on the international day of protest that became the precursor...
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Mar 30, 2019: Quebec solidaire votes to fight ban on religious symbolsWith chants of So-so-so solidarité, Quebec solidaire delegates celebrated a decisive vote in favour of opposing any and all ban...
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Mar 25, 2019: Ford’s in Town? Let’s Shut him Down!On March 22, well over a hundred teachers, students, parents and other protesters gathered in front of Ottawa’s Walter Baker...
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Feb 20, 2019: Capharnaüm, a film of chaos and miraclesThe film Capharnaüm, nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign-language film, tells the story of undocumented refugees and migrants...
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Feb 18, 2019: PowerShift activists debate a Green New Deal for the Canadian statePowerShift, a convergence for climate justice that began in the US 10 years ago, continued in Ottawa this year with...
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Feb 16, 2019: "They can’t pollute our spirits the way they pollute our rivers”Hundreds of people attended a keynote presentation at the Powershift.
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Dec 05, 2018: Franco-Ontarians to Ford: Nous sommes, nous serons ! #RespectFrancoNous sommes, nous serons.
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Nov 25, 2018: From the “Battle of the Hatpins” to Ford: Over one hundred years of Tory attacks on Franco-OntariansAs part of a many-pronged attack on equity and minority rights in Ontario this fall, Doug Ford’s government went after...
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Nov 11, 2018: The German Revolution of 1918-1919November marks the 100th anniversary of a little-known revolution in the heart of Western Europe.
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Oct 06, 2018: The CAQ: Back to the futureThe Quebec election brought one surprise.
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Sep 22, 2018: Quebec election watch: mid-campaign, the tide turnsCoverage of the Quebec election campaign in English Canada has focused on the big issue of contention thrown into the...
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Aug 23, 2018: Québec solidaire campaigns for a “transition énergétique”The Québec election campaign officially kicked off August 23, with polls on October 1.
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Aug 21, 2018: Hull nurses stage second sit-in against austerityOn August 4, when a nurse at the Gatineau Hospital in Hull was told she needed to stay after a...
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Aug 07, 2018: Québec: a 2018 election primerOn October 1, when the people of Quebec go to the ballot, they will be faced with the same dismal...