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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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Who’s minding the shop at Site C?
Appointment of engineer with long-term ties to BC Hydro to be government’s “independent” advisor on dam’s construction raises vexing questions In 2011, his last year as a salaried employee at BC Hydro, Tim Little earned just under $210,000 as the Crown corporation’s chief engineer. The next year, after decades of…
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A Big Fracking Mess: As Site C dam construction bogs down in geotechnical problems, thousands of earthquakes triggered by fracking operations occur nearby
Earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations near BC Hydro’s troubled Site C dam construction project are far greater in number than previously thought, raising troubling questions about whether they are adding to the already formidable geotechnical challenges at the site. Not only are more earthquakes occurring in proximity…
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Fighting on all fronts
The pandemic has exacerbated the existing crisis that migrants live in as a result of being denied basic rights and protections.
The pandemic has exacerbated the existing crisis that migrants live in as a result of being denied basic rights and protections.
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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.
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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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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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Reconciliation in action?
Far from it, says chief of holdout First Nation over deal with province on Site C In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with informing all Canadians about what happened to Indigenous Peoples in residential schools, defined the word reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining…
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To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings
Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…
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Canada’s proposed supply chain law is weak on human and environmental rights
The business community needs to get behind a stronger supply chain due diligence law
The business community needs to get behind a stronger supply chain due diligence law
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Oleksandra Klestova