Articles by Chantal Sundaram
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May 20, 2016: Quebec’s municipal workers fight backOn May 12, thousands of unionized Quebec municipal workers greeted elected municipal officials with a protest at the opening of...
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May 19, 2016: Trudeau: don't deport Mohamed Harkat to tortureThe Trudeau Liberal government has just made a public commitment to sign on to the UN Optional Protocol Against Torture.
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May 13, 2016: Québec solidaire local economy tourQuebec’s anti-austerity party, Québec solidaire, has launched a series of tours of Quebec’s regions to consult with local communities outside...
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Apr 11, 2016: Ten years of Québec solidaireTen years ago, people in Quebec who want a better world—to eradicate poverty, environmental destruction, sexism, racism, homophobia, the oppression...
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Mar 31, 2016: Mohamed Harkat: Let him stayUN Convention refugee Mohamed Harkat, one of the Secret Trial Five arrested under Canada’s unjust Security Certificate process, continues to...
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Mar 28, 2016: Aftermath of Quebec’s Common FrontThe Common Front of half a million Quebec public sector workers that coordinated negotiations and general strikes between health, education...
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Mar 05, 2016: Women’s history: Franco-Ontario’s “Hatpin Girls”On February 22, Premier Kathleen Wynne issued a formal apology to the Franco-Ontarian community for a rule that virtually banned...
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Feb 26, 2016: Hundreds rally against Uber on Parliament HillOn February 2, Ottawa taxi drivers, members of Unifor Canada, rallied on Parliament Hill against ride-sharing company Uber.
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Feb 09, 2016: Save Quebec daycareOn February 7 in Montreal, 20,000 people took to the streets to protest the Quebec government’s plan to cut $120...
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Jan 18, 2016: Quebec against austerity: what’s next?The Quebec Common Front was an alliance of 400,000 public sector workers across Quebec.
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Dec 11, 2015: Quebec teachers’ union marches in GatineauA crowd of red toques—the colour of the Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE), representing 34,000 teachers in 800 primary and...
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Dec 10, 2015: Quebec general strike: “The most important strike since 1972”On December 8, Jacques Letourneau, President of one of Quebec’s largest union federations, the CSN, said on Twitter.
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Dec 07, 2015: Quebec Common Front: province-wide strike December 9The Quebec Common Front—which represents all the major trade union federations in Quebec, including more than 400,000 provincial government workers...
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Nov 19, 2015: Quebec’s fight against austerity in educationThose who oppose austerity internationally are once again watching Quebec, with a new strike and protest movement unfolding this fall...
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Nov 13, 2015: Taking back Remembrance Day in MontrealNovember 11 doesn’t offer much to remember for Quebec.
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Nov 08, 2015: Quebec students join public sector workers on strike and in the streetsOn November 5, ASSÉ, the main student union behind Quebec’s “Maple Spring,”held a Quebec-wide student walkout and rally in Montreal...
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Oct 27, 2015: The Liberals and the Charter: don’t deport Harkat to tortureIt is not a coincidence that Mohamed Harkat received his deportation papers in the middle of the federal election campaign.
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Oct 16, 2015: Quebec's World March of Women in OutaouaisDespite pouring rain, local supporters of the World March of Women in the Outaouais region came out to a community...
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Sep 14, 2015: Human chain of parents and kids protect Quebec schoolsOn September 1, the start of the school year for Quebec primary students, nearly 20,000 people surrounded 260 public schools...
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Aug 15, 2015: What we wear: it's a woman's right to chooseDespite several decades since the women's liberation movement first raised the notion that women should have control over our bodies...
