April 11, 2021

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    “A Long Odyssey of Injustice”: French court orders Hassan Diab case to trial

    Organizing Against the Canadian Arms Trade

    Ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh: Agreement ends six weeks of fighting with Azerbaijani victory

    Conflict in Ethiopia: Thousands of refugees flee fighting amid fears of civil war and regional destabilization

    Canada & the Arms Trade: Fuelling war in Yemen & beyond

  • Feature

    How Community Organizations are Surviving COVID-19

    Wet’suwet’en Action Timeline

    A World Alight: A beginner’s guide to mass protests and uprisings through 2019 to the present

    Who Are the Kurds? What’s Happening in Northern Syria? An Atypical Guide to the Rojava Revolution and its Enemies

    20 Years in the Matrix: Escaping the Prison of Surveillance Capitalism

  • Community

    How 70 Unionized Ottawa Hotel Workers Were Fired

    Dying During COVID: Where Are the Caregivers?

    Homeless Shelters In The Time Of COVID

    Where the Grassroots Meet the Streets: New movements to support Ottawa’s homeless population

    “Rein in the REITs”: Tenants demand action against real estate investment trusts

  • Magazine/Comment

    Business is Booming as Canada’s Largest Arms Fair Comes to Ottawa: Those who buy and sell arms will be in town on May 27-28, but a major conference and protest says it’s time to cancel CANSEC

    Escalation in northwest Syria: Civilians caught in crossfire between government and opposition

    Letter to the Editor for 12.4

    Our Democracy is Broken: The Case for Electoral Reform Before it’s Too Late

    Why Don’t Canadians Revolt?

  • Culture

    Video Games for Leftists

    Drive-By Headpats by Matriarchal Terrorists Continue: Future Clipping from 2025

    Venus Envy Advisory: The Joy of Fisting

    Leveller Horoscopes March-April 2020

    Venus Envy Advisory: Talking Consent with Teens

  • Campus

    Surviving Zoom University: Carleton Students Grapple with Mental Health, Safety, and Socializing During Pandemic

    “No Lawful Authority”: Court Quashes Ford’s Student Choice Initiative [UPDATED]

    Strikes are an essential tactic to force an employer’s hand: Contract Negotiations for Teaching Assistants and Contract Instructor at Carleton University

    Doug Ford’s Impact on Ottawa Students: Voices from local universities on cuts to OSAP and the “Student Choice Initiative”

    Strikes are an essential tactic to force an employer’s hand: Contract Negotiations for Teaching Assistants and Contract Instructor at Carleton University

Ottawa’s favourite independent newspaper is now in its 12th Volume. In February 2009, the first issue of The Leveller was published.
Since then, sixty issues have been produced and over 100,000 copies of the paper have hit the streets to excellent reception.
The Leveller has garnered significant attention and praise, including an interview on CBC’s All in a Day with Adrian Harewood.

FEATURES

  • Progressive coverage of local, national, and international news, as well as university events, with a particular focus on local arts and culture
  • Popular community listings page, detailing events and happenings around Ottawa/Gatineau
  • Readership of politically, socially, and culturally engaged individuals, encompassing local post-secondary campuses, as well as residents of the greater Ottawa community
  • French language section – Les Sans Culottes
  • Published once a month
  • 3,500 copies of each issue published; 1,500 distributed at Carleton University, Ottawa University, and Algonquin College; 1,500 additional copies distributed off campus, along Bank Street, in the Glebe, Old Ottawa South, Centretown, Elgin Street, Main Street, in the Market, Sandy Hill, Westboro, Hintonberg, Little Italy, and Chinatown
  • Available online in friendly readable pdf format
  • The Leveller is a not-for-profit venture and predominantly run by volunteers
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ATTENTION GARNERED

  • Featured on CBC’s All in a Day, including interview with Adrian Harewood and an editor from The Leveller (electronic audio file available by request)
  • Blogged about by Ottawa citizen “RealGrouchy” on tales from a grouch (Check the March archive at www.realgrouchy.blogspot.com)
  • Invited to be part of a roundtable on media, which included an editor from The Leveller, as well as The Charlatan’s editor-in-chief and CKCU’s radio host (available at www.charlatan.ca/drupal/ content/media-matters)
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  • Many letters received from students and community members, including prominent journalists and the chair of the Carleton University Board of Governors

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The Leveller is an ambitious little rag. It wants to be simultaneously irreverent and important, to demand responsibility from others while it shakes it off itself, to be a fun-house mirror we can laugh at ourselves in and a map we can use to find ourselves and our city in. It wants to be your coolest, most in-the-know friend and your social conscience at the same time. It has its work cut out for it. The Leveller is published every month or so. It is free if you can find it, but you're looking at this on a screen, so you've found the next best thing. The Leveller and its editors have no phone or office, but can be contacted with letters of love or hate at editors.the.leveller@gmail.com
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