Extrajudicial killing in the age of spectacle
A screengrab from a video posted by the US government of a “kinetic strike” on a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean. Photo courtesy US Southern Command/X. Designating maj...
Daniel Cere
Canada needs an industrial strategy that serves public goods, not corporate interests
An 1891 editorial cartoon from New York’s Puck magazine shows a young Canada being pulled inexorably toward Uncle Sam by the joint forces of business and common interests. The caption…
Trump’s quest for a new Gilded Age
A Gilded Age-era political cartoon captioned “History repeats itself” lampoons late-19th century economic policies for reproducing the grim social inequalities of the Middle Ages. In a 2007 arti...
Mobilizing Canada for economic battle?
A woman operates heavy equipment along a long production line while men install the mechanical equipment of a ram tank, 1942. Photo courtesy Toronto Public Library. “It is distressing to…