Events

Yuk Yuk’s hits the Bronson Centre starring Chris Quigley, Sarah Boston, and host Dan Allaire. Proceeds go directly to Sudan humanitarian aid

"This is unequivocally the biggest threat to our single-payer, universal Medicare system we've ever seen. Not just for Albertans, but for all Canadians." - Friends of Medicare. The Danielle Smith government has passed a new law to bring down single-tier Public Medicare and bring in U.S. private health care and insurance. In Ontario, Doug Ford […]

Please join us for a rare Ottawa screening of The Sun Quartet (2017) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán), a Mexican collective of anonymous filmmakers founded in 2012. The Sun Quartet engages with the horrifying disappearance of 43 students from Ayotzinapa in 2014 and the protests that followed. Across its four parts, The Quartet remains true to the collective's […]

Join Climate Justice Ottawa for an evening of warm soup and burning solidarity to raise funds in support of Nehirowisiw Aski land defenders blocking logging companies from their traditional territories. The event will feature a cozy community dinner featuring a wide variety of soups, art making, and screening of two documentaries about the struggle by […]

WALKOUT FOR OSAP! The All Out For OSAP Ottawa Coalition are joining colleges, universities, high schools across the province to protest to reverse the changes. Protest at Ottawa Provincial Courthouse, March 24th at 1:30PM to fight back against the cuts to OSAP. Education is a right, we will not give up the fight. /// GRÈVE […]

M. E. O’Brien will lecture on the relationship between gender freedom and capitalism. She will begin by identifying the current fascist assault on trans rights across multiple national contexts. After briefly tracing varying current strategies of trans survival, organizing and flourishing, she will turn to the role of trans futures and utopian longings in movement […]

In a moment when Donald Trump's extractivist war machine seems unconstrained by anything other than the price of oil, and the international order, long on the rocks, is finally breaking up, we must not forget to attend to the myriad forms of life, resistance, and even joy that work against and despite neoimperialism in specific […]

The recent illegal war on Iran by the US and Israel has pushed the political support for Iran and Palestine into a problematically oppositional binary. This binary, which is aggressively promoted by Zionists and greatly benefits their project of domination and destruction in the region, has presented imperialist and Zionist forces as the only hope […]

Book launch with Zena Sharman and Alex McClelland, of Staying Power, a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. The book, which recounts the author's experiences of raising three children in a four-parent queer family, asks "If leaving has helped you survive, how do […]

Join us for a conversation with Shane Gunster on Petro-Politics and the shifting terrain of Canadian National Identity. We will consider what narratives are produced and circulated in Canada’s petro‑public sphere. This session offers a clear look at how industry influence shapes public debate, and what it means for climate justice movements working to shift […]