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“Alberta Next”, migrants’ rights come last
The “Alberta Next” initiative, led by Premier Danielle Smith, represents a significant push toward greater provincial autonomy within Canada. Through town halls and surveys conducted throughout the province from July to the end of September, this project sought public input on crucial policy areas—including immigration and pensions—while asserting Alberta’s constitutional…
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Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites
For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…
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Wrong, again: The political evolution of “parental rights”
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
As editors, each of us came to this special issue of Our Schools/Our Selves with both shared and distinct concerns about the recent iteration of the parental rights movement. However, as our conversations progressed, it became clear that the seemingly distinct concerns that we each had, were all really one…
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It was the best of times: Tracing the roots of the “parental rights” movement
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
I have always been a fan of how historical narratives evolve, and how they influence current contexts. And, often, how that history is then erased from present day conversations.
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Parental rights as privatization
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
As a public education advocate, I am particularly attuned to the ways that the “parental rights” (PR) movement has been used to undermine faith in public education in order to advance privatization. Recognizing that there are various pathways to and manifestations of privatization (Ball & Youdell, 2008; Winton, 2022), the…
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In Alberta, “parental rights” and privatization go hand in hand
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
In recent years, public education systems have become a battleground in a culture war fomented by the far right. The points of contention include manufactured panics over “wokeism” and accusations that schools are teaching “critical race theory” and “divisive concepts.” The current flashpoint, around the supposed indoctrination of students with…
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Discrimination through deception: The parental rights movement’s school board strategy
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
In spite of the role trustees play in communities across the country, school board elections in Canada have historically been rather perfunctory affairs, often beset by poor voter turn-out and little to non-existent media coverage. Yet, that has changed dramatically in the past few years, as what were once considered…
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Parental rights and school boards as contested spaces in Manitoba
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
Over the past five years, the school system in Manitoba has been the subject of public dialogue, debate and conflict. During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were placed under pressure as staff and students balanced public health measures with schooling. A push to “modernize” the public school system was also happening,…
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Difficult knowledge: Understanding “parental rights” and anti-SOGI mobilization among Sinophone Canadian parents in Metro Vancouver
Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025
Over the past 15 years, there has been a rapid rise in anti-SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) mobilization, primarily led by self-identified “parental rights” protesters in Metro Vancouver and across Canada more broadly.
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Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?
BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems. In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…
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Anthony Morgan
Anthony is a racial justice analyst with an expertise in addressing anti-Black racism. He is also a lawyer that has appeared at various levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has represented the interests of African Canadians before the United Nations. Anthony’s column, Colour-Coded Justice, appears regularly…
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Jason Demers
PhD (University of Toronto), Research Interests: Prison policy; Race and incarceration; Incarceration and human rights; Prison privatization; Prison writing; Cultural representations of incarceration; Literature and social justice.
