Category: Briarpatch

by Sophie Jin   Oct 25, 2023   4 min read   Share On September 26, after 148 days of striking, the negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America … Read More

by Geoffrey Picketts   Oct 25, 2023   7 min read   Share “We never wanted to own a restaurant,” Laura Blustein says. Both Laura and her husband, Jared Blustein, … Read More

by Adam D.K. King   Oct 25, 2023   13 min read   Share Robin Richardson-Dupuis During the deadly first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Izzy Adachi was working at … Read More

by Phoebe Fuller   Oct 25, 2023   11 min read   Share Tiffany Dang In June 2021, an unprecedented heat dome brought suffocatingly high temperatures to B.C. and caused … Read More

by Cole Rockarts   Oct 25, 2023   5 min read   Share We are living in a historical moment in labour history. At a time when corporations have more … Read More

by Paris Marx   Oct 25, 2023   5 min read   Share Don’t want to go through invasive airport scanners? You must be a Luddite. Not convinced “smart guns” … Read More

by Megan Linton, Mary Jean Hande, and Ethel Tungohan   Oct 25, 2023   11 min read   Share “Before this photo, I had not taken a bath since I … Read More

by Paige Galette   Oct 26, 2023   7 min read   Share In 2021, Shannon* moved to Whitehorse for a job in the service industry. The job was supposed … Read More

by Véronique Sioufi   Oct 26, 2023   13 min read   Share In a small, modern office building in midtown Toronto, it’s the start of the workday for Tessa.* … Read More

by Gerard Di Trolio   Oct 26, 2023   9 min read   Share On July 29, 2023, Metro grocery store workers in the Greater Toronto Area rejected their tentative … Read More

by Alex Birrell   Oct 24, 2023   11 min read   Share Briarpatch’s annual Writing in the Margins contest is back for its 13th year, spotlighting new poetry, creative … Read More

by F.T. Green   Aug 29, 2023   5 min read   Share In 1969, Canada tried to abolish its treaties with First Nations – to dissolve their reserves and forcibly … Read More

by Rajbeer Grewal   Sep 7, 2023   10 min read   Share Ning Yang On a frigid snowless morning in January 1988, more than 14,000 nurses lined Alberta’s streets … Read More

by Trish Mills   Sep 7, 2023   9 min read   Share Peter Collins There’s a saying among prisoners: if you don’t have a disability going into prison, you’re … Read More

by Ian McKay   Sep 7, 2023   10 min read   Share Will anyone remember COVID-19? Already in 2023, one senses a strong reluctance to dwell on it. The … Read More