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The Monitor, May/June 2022
Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines…
Five books to understand… Media democracy
In this new Monitor feature we invite a prominent Canadian to provide a reading list for better understanding a pressing topic.
No matter what your first issue is, media democracy is your second
Canadians need to face our history of violence, and we need a mediascape that can help us do this complicated, messy work.
The Monitor, July/August 2021
Media Democracy and Combatting Misinformation Download 2.9 MB “Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies,” writes Robin Shaban in her feature…
The Oil Blotter: Postmedia & Big Oil’s symbiosis
With some notable exceptions, like the Globe and Mail‘s feature on the enormous cost of remediating Alberta’s abandoned oil wells, Canada’s corporate press hasn’t paid much critical attention to this powerful industrial sector. Why not?
Challenging Racist British Columbia booklet weaves together history and present day anti-racist work during province’s 150th year
VANCOUVER — The 150th anniversary of British Columbia joining Canada arrives at a time when people and institutions are being asked to reckon with the…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
Download 2.19 MB12 pages In this issue: Canadian billionaires’ wealth skyrocketing amid the panedmic Healthy forests for a cooler future What federal leadership on long-term…
The Monitor, November/December 2020
Democracy in free fall? Download 9.95 MB Donald Trump makes people sick, himself and his entourage included. Given the U.S. president’s shameful, almost criminally negligent…
Election 2019: How to disarm anti-immigration rhetoric
For centuries, the political right has opportunistically blamed immigrants for everything from economic slowdowns to lousy weather. The ferocity of these baseless attacks in the…
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