Category: Briarpatch

by Hannah Dwyer   Mar 6, 2023   15 min read   Share I was so excited to start taking the pill in Grade 12. The little sleeve of attractively … Read More

by Kate Jacobson   Mar 7, 2023   6 min read   Share I know that I am not alone in saying that I am the most politically disoriented and unorganized … Read More

by Sophie Jin   Mar 7, 2023   3 min read   Share I was 19 and in my first year of university when I came across Briarpatch for the … Read More

by Andi Vicente   Mar 7, 2023   2 min read   Share A trans woman looks for her friend at a rally for presidential candidate Leni Robredo two days … Read More

by Saima Desai   Jan 3, 2023   4 min read   Share When I first became Briarpatch’s editor, I was 22 years old. I had experience as a journalist … Read More

Briarpatch versus the Harper government by Patricia W. Elliott   Jan 3, 2023   13 min read   Share In May 2009, Briarpatch publisher Shayna Stock began her day with … Read More

by Beth Smillie, Adriane Paavo, Shayna Stock, and Andrew Loewen   Jan 3, 2023   12 min read   Share Forty years ago Beth Smillie When I was editor of … Read More

by Saima Desai   Jan 3, 2023   5 min read   Share Briarpatch has always punched above its weight while barely scraping by – former editor Clare Powell called … Read More

by Sara Birrell and Mike Gouldhawke   Jan 3, 2023   13 min read   Share “There was this community. There were people who came and hung around the office … Read More

by Tracy Glynn and Aditya Rao   Jan 3, 2023   11 min read   Share New Brunswick. The drive-through province. Backwards and broken. Behind the times. Deprived and defeated. … Read More

by Alex Cosh   Jan 3, 2023   14 min read   Share When I published an article by Humber College professor Tyler Shipley explaining the historical context of the … Read More

by Matthew DiMera and Nora Loreto   Jan 3, 2023   13 min read   Share Every one of us has heard a story of bad labour practices in media. … Read More

by John Cameron   Jan 3, 2023   9 min read   Share Late this summer, Briarpatch’s sibling publication, the Sask Dispatch, applied for funding from the Google News Equity … Read More

by Patricia W. Elliott   Jan 3, 2023   5 min read   Share At a 1997 Free the Media Teach-In, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos told attendees they had three choices. … Read More