Menu
Erika Shaker
Editorial
As editors, we came to this project with both acknowledgementof the risk, and with an an unshakeable sense of resolve.
Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2024
If we, as educators and as social justice advocates who have dedicated our lives to anti-racism and equity work, find that the limits of our…
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…
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…
Seeking common ground at the Thanksgiving table
Political conversations at Thanksgiving can feel dreadful. They don’t have to.
Anti-trans school panic is about controlling kids
For gender-inclusive education, not one step back
Provincial anti-trans school policies are also attacks on public education
What’s behind Saskatchewan and New Brunswick’s targeting of queer and trans youth?
Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2023
They’re (still) alive: Classroom controversies & zombie narratives Like Twinkies and cockroaches, zombie ideologies seem to defy the laws of expiration dates, let alone logic,…
“Parental choice” is a dog-whistle—let’s recognize it as such
It’s less about choice, and more about privilege, privatization, populism, and patriarchy
Seven things Canada could do with an ambitious federal budget in 2023
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
Education: Inequality’s solution or great reinforcer?
For the unlucky children born on the lower rungs of Canada’s ladder of inequality, accessing quality education is hard. It doesn’t need to be this way.
Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter/Spring 2023
Education, disinformation, liberation: Classrooms as contested terrain This winter 2023 edition of Our Schools, Our Selves looks at the role of the school in the midst of the…
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates