Alberta separatism’s dangerous new allies
A banner in support of Alberta separatism is seen on Parliament Hill. Photo courtesy Alberta Prosperity Project/X. The Republic of Alberta: The Idea That Won’t Go Away Tyler Dawson Sutherland…
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Searching for the adult in the room: Canada’s recent electoral upheaval
Mark Carney on the campaign trail in advance of the 2025 federal election. Photo courtesy Mark Carney/Facebook. The 51st State Votes: Canada Versus Donald Trump Justin Ling Sutherland House Publishi...
Breaking the corporate stranglehold over Canadian consumer life
“Cry Baby in the Shopping Cart.” Illustration by Graeme MacKay/Hamilton Spectator. The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar Sutherland H...
Criminalizing NGO search and rescue workers endangers the lives of asylum seekers
Migrants on a boat crossing the Mediterranean Sea on January 29, 2016. Photo by callmonikm/Flickr. With the start of the New Year, it seemed like all of Europe breathed a…
Locals pay the price of super gentrification in Mexico City
La Roma Norte, Ciudad de México. Photo by Natch Jarero/Flickr. The accelerated gentrification of two of Mexico City’s neighbourhoods, La Condesa and La Roma Norte, has caused tensions and a…
Planning our way out of poverty: Racism and Toronto’s housing crisis
Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada. Photo by Dan D./Unsplash. Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi University of Minnesota Press, 2022 The cities of Europe are in…
Places of freedom: Reimagining the future of Standing Rock
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Nick Estes Verso, 2019 In the fall of 2016, in a…
Growing cultures of despair in Middle America
Hillbilly Elegy Ron Howard Netflix, 2020 American director Ron Howard’s latest film, Hillbilly Elegy, released on Netflix in late November, is the latest Trump-era attempt to capture the decay of…
Murder Bay: Investigations into the deaths of Indigenous youth
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Tanya Talaga House of Anansi Press, 2017 Thunder Bay Ryan McMahon Canadaland, 2018 Investigative journalist and Toronto Star…
Trees and teargas: worldviews clash at Barriere Lake
Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak University of Minnesota Press, 2017 Events from a chilling October day in 2008, on a gravel road entering…
Criminal law ejects Indigenous peoples from the frontiers
Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada Amanda Nettelbeck, Russel Smandych, Louis A. Knafla and Robert Foster UBC Press, 2016 A legal system designed…