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Happy 50th birthday, Briarpatch
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
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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
50 years of editing Briarpatch
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
The people’s magazine
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
Métis militancy and Saskatchewan media
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
“Don’t hate the media, be the media”
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
Doing anti-imperialist journalism while the world marches to war
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
Independent media’s bad labour problem
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
The dangers of Big Tech funding journalism
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
A reading list on alternative and grassroots media
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
Journalism with movements in the South
by Dawn Paley Jan 3, 2023 4 min read Share The left in Canada and the U.S. is increasingly divided on the question of how best to … Read More
The Top 5 Most Viewed Passage Articles In 2022
These are the top five of 102 articles we published between Dec. 1, 2021 and November 30, by unique page views.
2022: The year of climate change and ‘polycrisis’
Multiple systemic threats — COVID-19, war, inflation, insecurity, climate change — are intersecting with and amplifying one another
10 Articles In 2022 We’re Especially Proud Of Publishing
These are 10 of the 102 articles we published between Dec. 1, 2021 and November 30, of which we’re especially proud.