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If no political term has been more ubiquitous than “populism” over the last year, no topic has garnered more media attention during the same period than the incontrovertible evidence that...
REUTERS/Nick Didlick
For the last decade, oil and gas industry supporters in media, civil society and government have honed a populist narrative revolving around...
Alisha Davidson
“There is no time for complacency…. If there is one lesson above all that was the most sobering for me from my experience of over a decade [of...
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 5, 2019
For the last 100 days Camp Morningstar has nurtured a sacred fire on Hollow Water First Nation traditional territory in order to...
Six years ago, documents obtained under the Access to Information Act revealed that federal spy agencies had covertly monitored several groups that had expressed opposition to the proposed...
Surveillance capitalism is a large undertaking. A technical one. Sensors in our homes and on our bodies connect to towers and cables running to massive computer centres doing the data processing....
For six weeks in May and June 1919, approximately 35,000 workers in the Prairie city of Winnipeg walked off the job to voice their frustration with a range of issues, from a lack of collective...
First published by the Winnipeg Free Press January 16, 2019
Social Impact Bonds or ‘SIBs’ are a relatively new mechanism for governments to fund social services, but since being introduced...
The right to the city comes out of critical theory, a branch of intellectual thought originating in the early 20th century at the University of Frankfurt. The Frankfurt School consisted of a group...
This study finds milk is significantly costlier in First Nations communities than in Winnipeg and Northern Manitoba. The cost was higher in First Nations with and without access to an all-weather...