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The farmers’ protests and the looting of India
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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?
The Monitor, May/June 2021
The Future of Organizing Download 2.89 MB “It is certainly driven by young people,” Martin O’Hanlon, the president of CWA Canada told Kevin Philipupillai for…
Pandemic living on the margins
Disabled Canadians have been sidelined from—and by—many COVID-19 response measures. How can we learn from this experience to build greater equity going forward?
Fighting on all fronts
The pandemic has exacerbated the existing crisis that migrants live in as a result of being denied basic rights and protections.
Five books to understand… a pandemic
In this new Monitor feature we invite a prominent Canadian to provide a reading list for better understanding a pressing topic.
The Monitor, March/April 2021
One year later Download 5.4 MB “More than an infectious pathogen,” writes Michal Rozworski in his feature analysis for this issue, “the novel coronavirus is…
The decline of collectivity
The glue that holds any society together is faith that institutions, no matter how flawed, will always be committed to serving and protecting people from poverty, unemployment, sickness, and other afflictions. In Canada, that glue is coming unstuck.
Our “right to housing” needs some teeth
While homeless encampments serve as some of the most jarring visual depictions of Canada’s housing crisis, they are not the only manifestation of the problem.
Waiting to count
We know the value of disaggregated data. So why are 2SLGBTQQIA+ experiences still missing from government data collection?
No plan, big problem
The pandemic response is showing that undermining state planning capacity for four decades has resulted in states with low planning capacity. Who could have expected this?
Nothing about us without us
After a year of seeing the racially-lopsided impacts of the pandemic in Canada I think that the framework I proposed in my October 2019 TEDxToronto talk is ripe for reconsideration.
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