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Anti-Palestinian racism in Canadian schools and what we can do about it
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Young Women’s Experiences of Anti-Muslim Racism in Schools
Muslim young women who wear the hijab are stigmatized because of their religious and ethnic or racial backgrounds. Community-based reports in Winnipeg have documented how…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2024
In the never-ending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
What’s going to happen next with Canada’s Online News Act?
The Online News Act came into effect in December 2023 and rang in the new year 2024 with some unfinished business.
Canada’s climate actions must be greatly strengthened to reach net-zero emissions, new report
VANCOUVER—Canada faces daunting—but not insurmountable—challenges to meet its net-zero commitments, but government policies and incentives must match the severity of the issue in order to…
BC Solutions Magazine
EDITED BY: Rav Kambo, Jean Kavanagh, Bill Kilgannon, Lisa Akinyi May and Terra Poirier
Costly Gambles
Perhaps you’ve heard the one about Harvard University? That now it’s basically a hedge fund, but with a school attached?
Connect the dots: School boards, democracy, and human rights
On a gray day last September, I attended a counter-protest at the Grand Parade in Halifax. I was there as part of “Education Saves Lives”…
From battleground to common ground
In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations,…
School grounds turned battlegrounds: War, conflict and peace education
Months after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas fighters on Israelis, and the ensuing and ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces that…
Will Saskatchewan Fund the Future of its Universities?
It won’t surprise anybody that reads OS/OS that the costs of a university education is increasingly being transferred from governments on to the backs of…
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