Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS): Crime & Impunity

  This project will compile information on criminal and scandalous activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) from its founding in 1984 to the present. It will attempt to track the consequences for CSIS of each scandal which has come to light. Finally, it will analyse the data according to a set of questions [...]

The collective is just as important as the cooking: Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups

THE COLLECTIVE IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE COOKING Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups Group: Réseau D’Entraide De Verdun  Issues addressed: The project is based on community organizing and food solidarity. It addresses issues such as poverty, food insecurity, isolation, marginalization, class, gender and race. Size of project: We would like to have [...]

The unbearable temporariness of being! (Part 2): A resource guide of Temporary Agencies in Quebec

Quebec industries are hiring migrant workers under the federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program.  Little is known by the public about the conditions of workers in this program, particularly those workers under the Low Skilled Pilot Project.  Under this program the worker’s status in Canada is tied to their their employment.  Once the employment ends for [...]

The unbearable temporariness of being! (Part 1): A resource guide of Quebec companies that hire Temporary Foreign Workers.

  Quebec industries are hiring migrant workers under the federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program.  Little is known by the public about the conditions of workers in this program, particularly those workers under the Low Skilled Pilot Project.  Under this program the worker’s status in Canada is tied to their their employment.  Once the employment ends [...]

Mapping Israeli Apartheid in Montreal Academic Institutions

Organization: Tadamon Tadamon is an anti-authoritarian, grassroots collective based in Montreal which struggles in solidarity with social movements for justice in the Middle East. Since 2006, we have been working on the campaign for Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. Research Description: We are looking for a student or a group of students [...]

Queer McGill: A History

Organization: Queer McGill Project description: Queer McGill has operated at McGill in various forms since the early 1970’s, and has played its own particular role in queer history. Being able to access and reflect on this aspect of our local queer history would be incredibly meaningful to present and future generations of queers and activists. [...]

Trans Access to Shelter in Montreal

This project will consist of a qualitative and quantitative systemic examination of the Montreal shelter system to determine the state of access for transsexual, transgender and gender-variant people in need of shelter and housing (with a possible specific focus on women`s shelters). Furthermore, the research will look at other cities which have successfully adapted their [...]

Research and Writing project – Montreal Media Co-Op

The Montreal Media Co-op is looking for a student, preferably in Journalism or Communications, to undertake a research and writing project for the upcoming semester. The student would be expected to work with members of the MMC is researching one or several topics through various means, including Access to Information Requests, archival research and interviews. [...]

Making profits with war: Canadian corporations in Colombia

Organization: Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie PASC is a radical non-profit organization based in Montreal. We propose to concretize direct solidarity by sending international witnesses to Colombian peasant communities in order to bring support to these communities, to affirm their rights as civil populations living within a war zone, and to support these communities’ efforts in [...]

(Français) Recherches pour l’Association pour une Solidarite Syndicale Etudiante

Organization: ASSÉ (l’Association pour une Solidarite Syndicale Etudiante) Description du projet: Nous voulons une recherche exhaustive qui nous permettrait de bâtir un argumentaire pour soutenir nos revendications. Ce serait une recherche à caractère politique, sociale et économique qui aborde les questions à l’étude en analysant la situation des étudiants, des étudiantes et de la société [...]

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