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Families Deserve Action to End Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
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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
Download this Report 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 Muslim young…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2024
Download this Report 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 symbolic of…
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. The Meta news throttle continues. The company’s public messaging is that…
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 drastically reduce emissions to address…
BC Solutions Magazine
EDITED BY: Rav Kambo, Jean Kavanagh, Bill Kilgannon, Lisa Akinyi May and Terra Poirier Download this Report 2.68 MB12 pages Farewell from Shannon Daub How to meet Canada’s 2030 climate…
Costly Gambles
Perhaps you’ve heard the one about Harvard University? That now it’s basically a hedge fund, but with a school attached? That quip is becoming more applicable to some universities in…
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” – a response to the…
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 symbolic of the actualization that…
Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Privatization in publicly funded public education is not a new phenomenon – Our Schools/Our Selves has published on this topic for decades. But the struggle to successfully confront privatization continues partly due…
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 continue to kill thousands of…
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