March/April 2012

With the country’s largest reserves of oil, natural gas, uranium, and potash, much of which is found on Indigenous land, the Prairies will continue to be at the front lines of capitalist expansion for years to come, and are poised to become a hub of resistance. In this issue, Briarpatch imagines the West as a different kind of “land of opportunity.”

Articles in this issue

  • Letter from the editor

    Frontiers, new and old

    by Valerie Zink • Feb 28, 2012

  • Fractured land

    A first-hand account of resistance to fracking on Blood land

    by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers • Feb 28, 2012

  • Land rush

    Speculators stake claim to Prairie farmland

    by André Magnan, Melanie Sommerville • Feb 28, 2012

  • Regina’s boom hits close to home

    Economic prosperity comes with housing hardship in the Queen City

    by Rachel Penner • Feb 28, 2012

  • Awaiting justice

    The ceaseless struggle of the Lubicon Cree

    by Melina Laboucan-Massimo • Feb 28, 2012

  • Living the HyLife

    How meat packers are fuelling migration to Manitoba towns

    by Sheldon Birnie • Feb 28, 2012

  • Follow the yellowcake road

    Nuclear power, tarsands extraction, and the co-option of the University of Saskatchewan

    by D’Arcy Hande • Feb 28, 2012

  • Flooded and forgotten

    Hydro development makes a battleground of northern Manitoba

    by Peter Kulchyski • Feb 28, 2012

  • On to Ottawa in marvelous, meandering prose

    Book review

    by Yutaka Dirks • Feb 28, 2012

  • Same fight, new foes

    Fifty years after the birth of medicare, Canada’s health care system is again under threat

    by Lorne Brown, Doug Taylor • Feb 28, 2012