Shadowboxing with Russian bots
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo courtesy of the Kremlin/Wikimedia Commons. In the name of democracy Hide your kids, hide your wife, the Russians are coming, but this time for Canada’s…
Lital Khaikin
Criminalizing the most vulnerable: Migrant surveillance in Canada
Enhanced data gathering and other forms of intrusive risk analysis are part of a new era of surveillance technologies targeting migrant workers in Canada and beyond. Photo by ar130405/Pixabay. Alternatives…
The Right-Wing Checkpoint for Canada’s Intervention in Ukraine
Members of the Azov Battalion and other far-right groups march through Kyiv during Defenders of Ukraine Day, October 14, 2018. Photo from Leave the West Behind. Stoking the fire For…
COVID-19 Is Exacerbating Discrimination Against Asylum Seekers in Québec
Immigration holding centre in Laval, Québec. “Not a safe place for us” The first experience of a person seeking asylum in Canada may very well be incarceration. From the moment…
‘The Poland of Northeast Asia’: Mongolia’s Lithium Frontier
A truck at the vast Oyu Tolgoi mine near the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. Photo by Rio Tinto. With its heavy dependence on the extractive industry, facilitated by a…