The Québec government is proposing having both “sex” and “gender” on birth certificates and only allow people to change their “sex” if they had gender-affirming surgery Bill 2 will divide members of trans community in two different categories, as only those who have had gender-affirming surgery to change the sex listed on their birth certificates …
Les Basques autrement is a documentary project that brings together the people, the environment and the historical specificities of the Les Basques region. It shows a growing community that finds creative solutions to contemporary problems and that wishes to live a life closer to its members’ values of self-sufficiency, self-governance and grassroots organizing. Video by …
This week, the Native Women’s Shelter is asking the Quebec Human Rights Commission to launch an inquiry into systemic racism in employment at Batshaw Youth and Family Services Centre. Indigenous children represent 52.5% of the children within the foster care system. Yet Indigenous children make up only 7% of the youth population in Canada – identifying how …
For nearly a decade, the trans community in Quebec has been fighting a court case to demand their equal rights be respected by law in this province. On January 29th, 2021, the Superior Court of Quebec made a landmark ruling regarding various rights of transgender, non-binary and intersex people which stated that six provisions …
Do you have questions about Bill 2? Are you curious how you can fight back against the MOST transphobic bill in Canadian history? On October 26th, 2021, CUTV hosted a press conference with Celeste Trianon, trans rights advocate at the Centre for Gender Advocacy, to answer your questions. Thank you to filmmaker Jadis Dumas for …
On September 26th, the Milton Park committee, alongside several other organizations, planned a march to protest the privatization of the Royal Victoria hospital. Together they form the Royal Vic for the Public Coalition, as they advocate for the hospital to remain in the public domain. The march started at the hospital, crossed in front of …
Isolation and curfew measures have notably led to our population struggling with mental health, but is there another epidemic looming as the pandemic continues? In 2017, Canada saw a surge in opioid-related deaths. British Columbia, deemed ground zero for opioid related overdoses, faced a higher amount of overdoses for the first half of 2017 than …
Youth who age out of government care are forced into independent living the day after their 18th birthday. These youth often lack social support networks, leaving them at a substantially higher risk of unemployment, homelessness, and incarceration. This group comprises less than 1% of the youth population, which makes them an extremely small minority– one …
During protests in support of Black Lives Matter in Quebec last summer, Premier François Legault denied that systemic racism existed in the province. Last week the coroner’s report into Joyce Echaquan’s death, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven, who died in September 2020 in Centre hospitalier régional de Lanaudière in Joliette, a hospital in the north …
Tent city evictions, outbreaks in shelters and deaths during the curfew – this is what the homeless population has been experiencing during the pandemic in Montreal. Every night, about 4 thousand are homeless in MTL. This is double the number from before the pandemic. Local 514 covered homelessness during the pandemic in January, where we …
