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Between swing and split

August 4, 2021

Five Tamil artists in Toronto respond to “A Feller and The Tree.” by Brannavy Jeyasundaram, Saibruntha Arunthavashanmuganathan, Nedra Rodrigo, Shanta Ponnudurai, Renee Vettivelu, and Shanthiya Baheerathan   Jul 5, 2021 … Read More

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The Indian farmers’ protest is a window on a new world

August 4, 2021

by Harsha Walia   Jul 5, 2021   4 min read   Share “I will definitely go to Singhu [to] sit with farmers,” declared Nodeep Kaur, a 25-year-old Dalit labour … Read More

Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them
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Prisoners use drugs. Stop trying to stop them

August 4, 2021

Dina Polekhina/Unsplash In 1985, Canada began drug testing the urine of federal prisoners. Prison officials had tried to stop people from smuggling drugs into prisons by banning Christmas presents and … Read More

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Facing loss honestly

May 3, 2021

Letter from the Editor by Saima Desai   May 3, 2021   4 min read   Share On April 9, the results of the union vote at the Amazon warehouse … Read More

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Money rock

May 3, 2021

The Ring of Fire and Anishinaabay stewardship of the land by Eli Baxter and Matthew Ryan Smith   May 3, 2021   9 min read   Share The Ring of … Read More

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What is a migrant? And is she a revolutionary?

May 3, 2021

by Syed Hussan   May 3, 2021   15 min read   Share Mass temporary migration is the new global normal. In 2019-2020, over 3.4 million new temporary permits were … Read More

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Ingesting surveillance

May 3, 2021

by Kendra J. McLaughlin   May 3, 2021   8 min read   Share Of the 20 per cent of Canadians who have a mental illness and who are taking … Read More

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The strike-breakers’ playbook

May 3, 2021

by Mitchell Thompson   May 3, 2021   11 min read   Share When Molson Coors locked out its 300 Toronto workers on February 20, 2021, AFIMAC, the private security … Read More

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The slow crisis in Saskatchewan’s long-term care

May 3, 2021

by Sara Birrell   May 3, 2021   16 min read   Share Across Canada, long-term care homes have become the epicentre of deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Saskatchewan, … Read More

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The House of Windsor must fall

May 3, 2021

by M. NourbeSe Philip   May 3, 2021   2 min read   Share I do not care that Meghan and Harry are wealthy and live in California in an … Read More

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The ‘60s Scoop and everyday acts of elimination

May 3, 2021

by Mike Gouldhawke   May 3, 2021   8 min read   Share “There is no historical study of the Sixties Scoop in print,” Métis scholar Allyson Stevenson explains in … Read More

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The myth of Canadian generosity

May 3, 2021

by Tyler Shipley   May 3, 2021   5 min read   Share In 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau offered a gesture of Canadian support for the people of Guatemala … Read More

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Stitching together a movement

March 28, 2021

Letter from the Editor by Saima Desai   Mar 1, 2021   3 min read   Share Anyone who knows me knows that I have a hard time writing my … Read More

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We are the boat’s people

March 28, 2021

Creative non-fiction winner of the Writing in the Margins contest by Vina Nguyen   Mar 1, 2021   10 min read   Share Má, I’m lonely. Anxious. From the hospital … Read More

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Land Back Camp: Our Voices

March 28, 2021

Photography winner of the 2020 Writing in the Margins contest by Shawn Johnston   Mar 1, 2021   2 min read   Share “Land Back Camp: Our Voices” is a … Read More

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