Amid contemporary stories of Canadian injustice toward Indigenous communities, the mercury poisoning crisis affecting Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations exposes political bad faith.

From 1962 to 1970 a pulp and paper mill in Dryden, Ontario, dumped more than nine tonnes of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River System upstream of these First Nations. Ne...

Amid the arbitrary decisions imposed on Palestinian prisoners, the denial of medical treatment, the restriction of family visits, and the withholding of adequate food seem increasingly like a slow and deliberate death sentence. Following the vote in the Israeli Knesset on 30 March to approve measures towards the execution of Palestinian prisoners, prisoners’ reality has becom...

Thursday 4 April, at 7 am, my older brother rushed to my room with my parents. “The soldiers are surrounding the building,” he said, “and they’re on the second floor, they’re coming.” Before he finished speaking, we heard a really loud knock on the door. My mom and I put on our headscarves, which were right next to us, and my father and brother went to open the door before th...

Behind every budget are decisions about whose lives are protected – and whose are not. Through taxation, we are implicated in those decisions.

But what if we chose to question that – and even refuse it?

Earlier this year, members of CPT’s Iraqi Kurdistan team sat with the Salih family – Haji, Saffia, and their daughter Huri. Like so many others in the regi...

“Everyone should see this film.” “It’s an emotional story about migrant families and what they have gone through.” “It’s the most impactful documentary I have seen about immigration.” These are a few of the responses viewers gave after ...