Trish Hennessy
Trish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused on social determinants health, sustainable development goals, income inequality, decent work, an inclusive economy, and wellbeing budgeting. Trish was the founding director of the CCPA Ontario and co-founded the Ontario Living Wage Network. She was the founding director of the CCPA National Office’s growing gap project, which began in 2006. Trish was a former newspaper journalist, originally from Saskatchewan but she now lives in Ottawa. She has a B.A. Sociology from Queen’s University, a B.S.W. from Carleton University, and an M.A. in Sociology from OISE/University of Toronto.

This edition of the Monitor collaborated with the Resource Movement, a community working toward the redistribution of wealth, land, and power.

No sovereignty without digital sovereignty.

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A prickly period of separatist sentiments in Alberta’s Wild Rose Country.

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Canada’s shrinking media environment.

For the first time since 1977, and the third time ever, the monarch of the British empire appeared before Canada’s parliament to read the speech…

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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”—George Orwell, 1984.
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