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 [...]

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 [...]

Compilation of Indigenous history – Sustainable Development Corporation

Organization: Sustainable Development Corporation Research Description: Compilation of indigenous history starting with ourselves is a multi-dimensional project which students can tailor to their own interests and abilities in almost any direction or discipline. Our work is based in principles of the personal ‘Vision-Quest’. We are looking for self-directed inspired students who wish to contribute to [...]

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 [...]

First Nation placename mapping for Tiohtiake (Greater Montreal region) & across Quebec

Organization: Sustainable Development Association (SDC-CDD) Project Description:   A team of artists are developing artistic renditions of our Geographic Information System GIS mapping of 105 Mohawk placenames from 2000.  We need students with artistic and technical abilities to aid in the rendering. In 450 years the long tens of thousands of years of First Nation [...]

Canadian Government Support to Sri Lanka

Organization: Tamil Action Committee   The Tamil Action Committee (TAC) is a local group which struggles for social justice for Tamil people, both at home and in the Tamil territories of Sri Lanka. The TAC was particularly active in mobilizing protests against the government-backed war against Tamil people in the spring of 2009. The Canadian [...]

Exposing the Quebec-Israel Economic Accord

Organization: Tadamon   Tadamon! (Arabic for “solidarity”), is a Montreal-based collective which works in solidarity with struggles for self-determination, equality and justice in the ‘Middle East’ and in diaspora communities in Montreal and beyond.     Project description: The Quebec-Israel Economic Accord was signed in 1997, and in the fall of 2008, the Quebec government [...]

Indigene Community Semantic Wiki Web Media Project – Sustainable Development Corporation

Organization: Sustainable Development Corporation   Research Description: The Tiohtiake Tsi Tetsionitiotiakon Sustainability Rooted in Heritage placename mapping project will involve First Nation heritage contributions by some 50,000 individuals in the greater Montreal region who identify themselves as First Nation.  We are contributing to a compilation which has been avoided by colonial regimes for some 450 [...]