In an about-face of the previous government’s position, Australia decided on Friday to endorse the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people to their own culture, institutions and spiritual traditions. With Australia joining the 143 countries that came on board when the bill passed in 2007, the list of nations opposed to the declaration [...]
While debt and money seem to be key talking points in the mainstream media and in general public discourse quite frequently these days, there is a type of debt that has gone largely underreported for decades. Not only is the debt developing nations owe to the world’s most prosperous countries and global organizations like the [...]
In an attempt to diversify its media holdings and reach a new, more socially aware public, CanWest Global Communications Corporation has purchased several internet sites, blogs and forums deemed until recently to be too small-scale for a large media corporation to even be interested in. This online publication, the OTL Blog, is one of them. [...]
Harper’s conservatives have already proved that they’re not afraid to cut funding to artists and are only willing to backpedal when their move loses them crucial votes in Quebec. They’ve also shown that when they do pull an about-face rhetorically, it usually ends up with those who lost out still losing out and new private [...]
Six years ago this past Monday, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, who grew up in Olympia, Washington and traveled to the Gaza Strip as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she defended the home of a Palestinian pharmacist in Rafah. Her memory, though, seems like [...]
Every person has a history and every group of people does, too. What happens, though, when the history of two or more groups took place in the same geographic space? Generally, that of the socio-economically, politically and militarily dominant group sets the narrative. One only has to look back a few weeks to the recent [...]
On Saturday, May 16th, the main auditorium in the CEDA in Little Burgundy will be filled with people sharing ideas and information by buying and selling books, posters and DVDs as workshops take place in the rest of the space. The next day, it’s more workshops, many more. This is the annual Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, [...]
If you’re new to this blog, this site or OTL in general, you may have noticed the frequent use of pairs of coloured sunglasses in photos, videos and even in the graphics on our homepage. These serve one main purpose and it’s not to block bright sunshine from the eyes (though that function is helpful, [...]
If you thought that the City of Montreal postponing the vote on its controversial anti-mask bylaw would silence the amendment’s opponents, you’d only have to look to the streets Monday night to know how wrong you were. Protesters clad in masks met at Berri Square and after a speech took to the streets, literally. This [...]
As plans were underway late Friday afternoon for a last-ditch theatrical protest to stop the City of Montreal’s proposed anti-mask law from passing, word broke that the city was backpedaling on the proposed legislation and would not be voting on it at tonight’s council meeting as planned. While this news sounded at first like a [...]
