This is the first video in a new series by Faiz Abhuani of Brique par Brique. In this interview, Faiz speaks to Rizwan Khan of Comité d’action de Parc-Extension (CAPE) outside of La Place Commune about Parc-Extension, Islam, internalized racism, and gentrification. Check out the full interview below! Video by David Earles
Check out the new CUTV Discord server! A place for CUTV members to collaborate, support each other, communicate with staff members, and keep up to date with all CUTV activities and programming. We will be hosting Discord-specific games and activities in the future, stay tuned! What is Discord? It’s a free app that allows for …
Please sign our petition and share it with your friends to help us get our YouTube channel back A few months ago, we lost our YouTube account. Someone who had the password changed it, and we haven’t been able to access it since. That account has over a decade of community production, and we don’t …
Mamadou Konate, who laboured in Quebec’s long-term care facilities throughout the pandemic, faces deportation from Canada due to an obscure clause in the Immigration Act. Friends of Mamadou, asylum seekers, advocates, and community allies gathered outside of Justin Trudeau’s riding office on Tuesday to demand status for Mamadou and status for all. Video by Abdelali …
CUTV is hiring a Station Manager: Core responsibilities: Seek out and support partnerships with other community organizations Managing day-to-day operations, including station inventory and supplies, safety and security, and space allocation/utilization Support production of alternative programming for those underserved by the corporate media Assist the administration of CUTV with various bookkeeping and human resource tasks …
On July 1st activists, artists, hip-hop enthusiasts, and Montrealers gathered in the Mile-End to hold a celebration in protest of Canada Day. The event aimed to support the Indigenous community and raise money for a recent project launched by the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal/Foyer Pour Femmes, Iskweu. Among the performers were The Rap Battles …
On June 25th, the HAUTERAGEOUS community came together to raise funds for the Palestine Children Relief Fund and AlQaws Org for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society. Hauterageous is a Palestinian-run organization that denounces all forms of Zionism and aims to help foster a safer space for QTBIPOCS in nightlife. This event featured performances …
Throughout the pandemic, there has been lots of discussion around the critical role of essential workers, within healthcare, but also within food production and product distribution networks. Despite the rhetoric and increasing public recognition of the role that essential workers play in holding society up, there are still many essential workers who are struggling with …
Family members of the victims of Dr. Ewen Cameron’s notorious “Montreal Experiments” and their supporters held a rally outside of the Montreal courthouse on June 8th as part of an ongoing effort to gain recognition and an apology for these experiments. Dr. Cameron’s experiments, which were conducted on hundreds of unwitting subjects at the Allan …
On June 11th, hundreds gathered in Parc-Extension to mourn the loss of a family of four killed in an Islamophobic attack in London, Ont on June 6th. Many politicians, including Montreal mayor Valérie Plante, were present and gave speeches condemning Islamophobia. Politician Benoit Charette of the Coalition Avenir Québec was booed during his speech due …
