hunger strike

Nearly three months into his fast, Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick says he won’t eat until the German government acknowledges the severity of the climate crisis and the world’s failure to address it. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz shows no inclination of doing that.

In Egypt, protest zones were set up far away from the venue but were largely rejected by activists.

A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike to protest old-growth logging but plans to go without food until the end of the month before joining others in escalating action against the government.

On Nov. 1, Abby Herd helped lead a group of Simon Fraser University students over the finish line as they won an eight-year campaign to persuade the administration to divest from fossil fuels by 2025.

A group of Metis citizens from Western Canada was left waiting in the cold as they sought approval from federal bureaucrats to enter an Ottawa building meant to be a space for Indigenous Peoples.

A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated sections of both the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying, ruling on Wednesday, September 11, 2019, they were too restrictive and therefore unconstitutional.

An Algonquin grand chief's hunger strike is over after an agreement with the federal government on a project to create a major Indigenous centre in Ottawa.

About three dozen protesters went to the federal fisheries office in St. John's, N.L., on Thursday, April 20, 2017 morning to support a celebrity fisherman on a hunger strike.