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A protest outside the Royal Court over pregnant women being locked up in UK prisons

‘No Births Behind Bars’: the scandal of imprisoning pregnant women in the UK

Kate Bermingham , 22nd March 2023

Two maps of India split by a picture of the UK and a teapot pouring tea down the centre. On the left, old colonial map of British India. On the right, the 'Wastelands Atlas of India' map and a solar panel in the bottom right corner.

British colonial ‘wastelands’ system used for solar land-grabs in India

Hannah Sharland , 15th March 2023

Artwork of corporate colonialism in the Global South, depicting a wind energy land grab in Mexico. The image is split down the middle by a picture of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, a field of corn and a farmer walks along his crops. Trees in the distance. On the right, five wind turbines dominate the landscape. No high crops can be grown beneath them.

UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South

Hannah Sharland , 8th March 2023

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab in Nepal. The image is split in two by an basic image of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, terraced fields and a village on a green mountainside, where a lady harvests crops. On the right, a huge hydropower dam.

UK climate aid decimates multiple indigenous communities in the Global South

Hannah Sharland , 3rd March 2023

Squirrel monkey representing CITES and the Wildlife Trade

As CITES turns 50, a report on the ‘extinction business’ shows urgent need for change

Artwork of a renewable energy land-grab. An image of the UK splits the image in half, with bank notes flowing from it. On the left, satellite image of the land before the solar park, plus a landscape scene of trees, grasses, scrub and a cow on common land. On the right, satellite image with the solar park dominating the area and a landscape image of a series of solar panels. This relates to UK climate finance being used in India

UK climate strategies are colonising indigenous villages in India

Artwork of a solar land-grab. A yellow excavator runs through the centre of the image pushing rubble, splitting the picture in two. On the left, two farmers harvest from a field of chickpea crop. In the distance, a cow grazes on dry grasses. Trees and shrubs dot the horizon. On the right side, lines of solar panels stretch out to the horizon, where the rich and biodiverse crop field once existed. All this represents climate aid and the village of Badi in India

UK government climate ‘aid’ set to displace indigenous villagers in India

Sami Berry, on the left with her husband Craig, and on the right severely ill in hospital. She lives with ME and EDS and currently the NHS is not treating her chronic illness correctly

A woman living with ME and EDS is dying in front of her husband’s eyes in an NHS hospital

Steve Topple , 24th February 2023

A woman looking at the earthquake devastation in Hatay, Turkey - a Kurdish area

Turkey’s colonial policies exploit the earthquake disaster in Kurdistan

The Canary , 21st February 2023

A student housing co-op group

“No more landlords”: students take housing matters into their own hands

Steve Topple , 12th January 2023

EveryDoctor GP hits back at Wes Streeting for Labour’s NHS plans

Steve Topple , 10th January 2023

What if there was no Canary?

What if there was no Canary?

Steve Topple , 12th December 2022

A picture of a Canary as word art for the Amplify programme

Talented writers: here’s why you should join the Canary’s Amplify scheme

Karen Burns , 6th December 2022

Letters to the Canary

Letters to the Canary: Royal Mail, Scotland, and Don’t Pay UK

Steve Topple , 26th November 2022

British Transport Police

This Bristol copwatcher is determined to hold the police to account

Sophia Purdy-Moore , 17th November 2022

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The Canary has launched a Mastodon independent media server

Steve Topple , 17th November 2022

Three owls in a cage for sale in the wildlife trade

Wildlife trade is snuffing out species at a shocking rate, expert warns

Tracy Keeling , 14th November 2022