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Hand holding up a copy of Canada & NATO at centre against background of ARP office bookshelves. Cover is black and white and features a collage background made from photographs from the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Designed by Bret Parenteau

Now available, Owen Schalk's Canada and NATO: Myth of a Global Peacekeeper. Join Schalk and peace activist Sarah Borbridge for a book launch and discussion at Grant Park McNally @mcnallyrobinson.com on April 10th, 7pm.

As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.

Actor returns award over censorship by Toronto Film Critics Association | APTN News YouTube video by APTN News

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers will be returning her recent award won from the Toronto Film Critics Association after they censored her recorded acceptance speech once she turned attention to the war in Palestine.

Hague Group measures against Israel to be weighed up by 40 countries A GROUP of 40 countries are considering a package of measures to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.

“The choice before every government is clear: complicity or compliance."

Read more from yesterday's emergency meeting of The Hague Group in The National.

It is standard for Western academia to support imperialist aggression.

—Ali Kadri

The Sameer Project - Open Collective Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza during the genocide.

As US/Israel aggression escalate, the genocide of Palestinians continues, as does the call to increase BDS efforts

ARP is among the 140+ arts orgs in Canada now openly committed to BDS by endorsing PACBI
www.bdsmovement.net/pacbi

Sameer Project lifesaving support
opencollective.com/the-sameer-p...

Nuestra América Convoy We are mobilizing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people.

We're mobilising to Havana on 21 March.

Join the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba, and support our efforts to secure critical aid for homes, hospitals, schools, and families in need.

OUT NOW: SYRIA, Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam, a 300-page anthology of Syrian literature and art that speaks to this moment.

arablit.org/2026/03/01/a...

Budget 2026 to 2027 Defending Nova Scotia: Planning for the long term

$700,000 supporting 9 independent book publishers gone without warning.
Meanwhile, many millions for militarization and Al (1 million for a pilot project on Al traffic signals alone), 33.8 million for cybersecurity, etc.
novascotia.ca/budget/

These cuts set a dangerous precedent for independent book publishing in Canada

"Owen Schalk makes the definitive case for Canada to withdraw from NATO. He explains the fascist origins of the U.S.-led military alliance and how it has used violence to expand capitalism and enrich the Western corporate elite.
Canada and NATO will inform and infuriate you." —Tamara Lorincz

“Canada and NATO is an exposé about the role of a country that hides behind the fact that it is not the United States, when it has supported almost every U.S. military adventure and it has defended the right of its mining companies to exploit the Global South. We need this book.” —Vijay Prashad

Cultural Workers at Arbeiter Ring Publishing Unanimously Ratify First Union Contract with IATSE Local 63 - IATSE Canada WINNIPEG, MB — Three workers at Arbeiter Ring Publishing (ARP Books) unanimously ratified their first collective agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 6...

2026 marks ARP's 30th anniversary, and we're excited to announce that under expanded categories now including workers in publishing & visual art (+ film, music, & theatre) we've unionized, forming part of IATSE Local 63 as the union's first Canadian book publisher canada.iatse.net/cultural-wor...

Opinion: By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity

Another casualty of Mark Carney’s ideologically driven government spending cuts: prison libraries.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Corporate landlords are targeting Black tenants in Toronto through ‘racial banishment’ ⋆ The Breach Carl and Olliver Henry nearly lost their home over a single cent. Their story highlights how racism is shaping Toronto’s financialized housing crisis

Carl and Olliver Henry nearly got evicted by their corporate landlord for being one penny short on a rent payment.

It’s part of a bigger pattern: Black tenants are being targeted for eviction by Toronto’s corporate landlords, who are intent on raising rents and remaking the city.

I had a wild conversation with a bus driver a couple days ago, and he believes the reason Graham was closed to buses is because the city and businesse want it to be harder for poor and unsheltered people to get downtown

Photo of an old book "Certainly imperialist domination calls for cultural oppression and attempts either directly or indirectly to do away with the most important elements of the culture of the subject people. But the people are only able to create and develop the liberation movement because they keep their culture alive despite continual and organized repression of their cultural life and because they continue to resist culturally even when their politico-military resistance is destroyed. And it is cultural resistance which, at any given moment, can take new forms, i.e., political economic, armed to fight foreign domination."

Amílcar Cabral on the importance of culture for colonized peoples. been thinking about this a lot lately but he says it better than I ever could:

Education as a Lifeline: Hope and Hardship in Gaza It was seven in the morning, and I was on my way to buy chicken—both hands buried in my pockets, trying to keep warm as the cold bit sharply. All I could see along the way were tents in quiet field…

On hope and hardship in Gaza amid visiting a destroyed university.

I went to a rally this morning at city hall to protect our right to protest. City hall is 900 metres from my home. I had to take a taxi there because our sidewalks are impassable in winter in our so called “human rights city.” I tried to roll home but got stuck several times and had to ask for help.

www.noarmsinthearts.com/scotiabank-d...

Campaign statement on the divestment here:

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island."
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Arundhati Roy quits this year’s Berlinale over “jaw-dropping” jury remarks against political art and Gaza. In a statement to The Wire, author Arundhati Roy announced she will no longer participate in the 2026 Berlinale film festival. The author of Mother Mary Comes to Me and The God of Small Things was …

In a statement to The Wire, author Arundhati Roy announced she will no longer participate in the 2026 Berlinale film festival.

Food for Profit | APTN Investigates Food prices were already high in the North. Then grocery bills began to skyrocket everywhere. But why is this happening and what's next?

Congratulations to our own @tfennario and Brittany Guyot for winning the @amnesty Award in the best long form video category for Food for Project, which takes an inside look at the true costs of our food.

Watch it here:

Graphic with text reading: What is it? The Safe Access to Vulnerable Infrastructure By-law would set 100 meter buffer zones on how close "nuisance" demonstrations can be to certain types of buildings including places of worship, public and independent schools, post-secondary institutions, healthcare facilities, cementaries, childcare centres, and other designated facilities. Fines range from $500-$5000 per individual. Bottom of graphic shows a map to illustration the amount of space blocked by the proposed bylaw. 78.3 square km of the City of Winnipeg would be restricted.

Graphic with text that reads: "Why is this important?" - Nuisance Protest is non-specific, meaning any and all public protests, marches, round dances & other gatherinsg could be subject. - There are already anti-hate laws and a 50 meter buffer zone set by the Province for Reproductive Healthcare Facilities - Areas restricted by this by-law are public spaces and points of proximity to decision makers. City Hall, University Campuses, Wab Kinew's Office, etc. - Fines of up to $5000 could be issued to every person who shows up to Round Dances, rallies, group bike rides, marches, etc. - The language of the by-law extends to any protests in these exclusion zones that use amplified sound or block traffic. - Police will have new tools they will use to silence and punish protesters - This will almost certainly be racist in implementation.

A graphic with text that reads: "How to Help" - Show up for a rally at City Hall on Tuesday, Feb 17 @ 8:45 AM before EPC puts the by-law to a voite - Register as a delegate to speak to EPC on Tuesday, or submit written delegations by TOMORROW, Friday 13 @ Noon - Check out @wpgsouthcentre4justice on instagram who have shared instructions and a template for written delegations - Speak to your union, community, and religious leaders about your concerns and urge them to submit comments or register to delegate

DEMONSTRATIONS ARE DEMOCRATIC - Rally against "ANTI-PROTEST" Bylaw proposed by Councillor Evan Duncan to the City of Winnipeg's Executive Policy Committee on TUESDAY, FEB 17 @ CITY HALL @ 8:45 AM

Trump pushes Cuba toward catastrophe US sanctions have cut Cuba off from crucial oil supplies, threatening hospitals, electricity, and basic services. With Mexico’s shipments halted under pressure from Washington, members of the Canadian...

US sanctions are strangling Cuba’s oil supply, putting hospitals, electricity, and essential services on the brink of collapse.

Members of the Canadian Network on Cuba discuss how this blockade isn’t just an attack on Cuba—it’s a challenge to sovereignty, solidarity, and global justice.

National Liberation: Categorical Imperative for the Peoples of Our Americas Manuel Maldonado-Denis's 1981 speech frames national liberation as a categorical imperative for the region.

“The national independence struggles of the peoples of Our America have simultaneously been anti-imperialist struggles from Tupac Amaru up through our times.”

Shelter, Goods & Activities x The Sameer Project The inititaive was originally formed to secure, purchase, and distribute tents in Southern Gaza but in January 2026, the campaign was rebranded to "Shelter, Goods & Activities" to cover not only tents...

Seeing from Sameer Project that tents are breaking down. We are so angry that this is the ask since people should not have to continue to be displaced… but please pitch in so that they can replace tents that have torn and disintegrated after 2+ years.

chuffed.org/project/1132...

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland.

Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.