Settler colonialism: What’s in a name?
Red Lake Chief makes a speech to the governor of Red River at Fort Douglas in 1825. Fort Douglas was the first fort associated with the Hudson’s Bay Company near…
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A global reminder that the fight for abortion rights is far from over
Canadian women rally for abortion access during the 1980s. Photo by Judy Blankenship. The A Word: A Global History of the Abortion Struggle Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay University of…
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...
Class struggle unionism, auto workers, Reds, and the 1930s
A large crowd gathers outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa, April 9, 1937. The strike was a key moment in the fight for industrial unionism in Canada and a…
The ‘haka party’ incident and the fight for Māori dignity
The mock haka performed by Auckland University engineering students in 1955. Photo courtesy the Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira. The Haka Party Incident Directed by Katie Wolfe Tasma...
Remembering the resistance that helped stop a genocidal war
Draft-age Americans being counselled by Mark Satin (far left) at the Anti-Draft Programme office on in Toronto, 1967. The Anti-Draft Programme was Canada’s largest organization providing emigration counselling and service...
Canadian democracy in ‘advanced disrepair,’ claims Coyne
Photo by Iouri Goussev/Flickr The Crisis of Canadian Democracy Andrew Coyne Sutherland House, 2025 A long-standing maxim in the newspaper business holds that the longer you...
Jousting with empire: a review of Walden Bello’s ‘Global Battlefields’
Walden Bello in 2003. Photo by Marcello Casal Jr./Wikimedia Commons. Global Battlefields: Memoir of a Legendary Public Intellectual from the Global South Walden Bello Clarity Press, 2025 ...
Review: ‘My Friend the Terrorist’
Filipino writer, poet, and activist Jose Maria Canlas Sison. In 1969, Sison founded both the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army. My Friend the Terrorist Directed…
Canada’s corporate subsidies mostly enrich shareholders of multinationals
Bay Street, Toronto. Photo by Brian Carson/Flickr. At The Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada’s Corporate Welfare Bums Laurent Carbonneau Sutherland House, 2025 Like most s...
Demolishing Pierre Poilievre’s radical blueprint for Canada
Pierre Poilievre during an interview with TVA Nouvelles, June 2024. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The Poilievre Project: A Radical Blueprint for Corporate Rule Martin Lukacs Breach Books, 2025 ...
Hitting People in the Feels
Review Roundup of The Gates of Polished Horn I’m not sure if “hitting people in the feels” was the goal for this collection of short… The post Hitting People in…
The Toronto Star Reviews The Gates of Polished Horn!
My new book in the big leagues Well isn’t this lovely. The Toronto Star reviews The Gates of Polished Horn in its roundup of new… The post The Toronto Star…
Taking housing policy solutions to their failure point
Photo by Alan Harder/Flickr Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis Carolyn Whitzman UBC Press, 2024 Carolyn Whitzman has all the answers. She has a plan to fix ...
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...
Review: The Fellowship of the Ring and Tom Bombadil
Mark examines the role of Tom Bombadil in the fellowship of the ring. The post Review: The Fellowship of the Ring and Tom Bombadil appeared first on mark a. rayner.
Western Marxism and the world crisis
A section from Diego Rivera’s “Man, Controller of the Universe,” depicting Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx, in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Image from Wikimedia Commons.…
Review: People of the Sea
Irish thought exploded into my consciousness during my undergrad. I read Seamus Heaney’s first collection of poetry within a few weeks of being introduced to… The post Review: People of…
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine
In the summer of 1990, Ellen Gabriel (Katsi’tsakwas) was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the infamous “Oka Crisis,”…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Palestine, and a message of resistance
Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Shuhada Street in Hebron, Palestine. Photo by Mehdi Chebil. The Message Ta-Nehisi Coates One World, 2024 In East Jerusalem, roughly a ...