Institutional neutrality or institutionalized silencing?
Pro-Palestine encampment at U of T’s King’s College Circle in 2024. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. The partial ceasefire in Gaza offers an opportunity to reflect on how universities have…
Education, Social Movements,
The pro-Palestine encampment on my university campus is no safety threat
Two weeks ago, I visited the pro-Palestine encampment at the University of Waterloo, which I attend, to sit in on a writing workshop. Nearby campers offered me water and a…
Students lift veil on university financing and demand end to genocide complicity
Scenes from the People’s Circle for Palestine at King’s College Circle on the University of Toronto Campus, May 2, 2024. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. The politics of power and…
A lawyer’s perspective on the pro-Palestine encampments
Pro-Palestine encampment on the grounds of McGill University, Montréal. Photo courtesy Ellen Gabriel/X. A trite observation: One of the striking aspects of the fuss about pro-Palestine campaigns on university campuses…
Ten years on from the ‘Maple Spring,’ New Brunswick government cancels student benefit program
University of New Brunswick campus in Fredericton. Photo by Brian Atkinson/Fredericton Tourism/Flickr. A decade has passed since post-secondary students in Québec protested their government’s March 2011 decision to raise tuition…
Spring 2015 Anti-Austerity Movement in Quebec: A Critical Retrospective of the Organizing
Photo by David Gray-Donald This piece was requested by activists/alternative media outside Quebec seeking to understand the Spring (Printemps) 2015 mobilisation and the way it ended; it was written during…