Tags – Education
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Attawapiskat, revisited
While many Indigenous communities are economically impoverished, they are far from poor
Our northern communities are rich because they know their languages. They are rich because they have strong connections to their land. They are rich because at least some of their lands exist in a natural state.
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Toward sexual self-determination
Book review
What You Really Really Want is a powerful tool for radically transforming how we understand and navigate the complexities of our own sexuality.
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Follow the yellowcake road
Nuclear power, tarsands extraction, and the co-option of the University of Saskatchewan
On October 14, 2011, the University of Saskatchewan board of governors formally approved the incorporation of the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) “to stimulate new research, development and training in advanced aspects of nuclear science and technology.” Tracing corporate connections and developments behind the scenes shows how a coordinated strategy can be implemented largely outside public purview and beyond generally accepted public accountability.
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Stepping up for future generations
An interview with northern Saskatchewan residents resisting a nuclear waste dump on their land
In summer 2011, several people from communities in northern Saskatchewan walked 820 kilometres from Pinehouse to Regina to raise awareness about the storage and transportation of nuclear waste in the province, and to oppose a proposed nuclear waste dump near Pinehouse. This is an excerpt from their radio interview with Don Kossick following the walk.
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Homeplace as revolutionary front
Taking “care” back into our hands
Homeplace is where we are grown and raised into social beings, where we receive our earliest definitions of humanity, where we first learn to recognize love, violence, justice and pain. Yet it has persisted in our imagination as a private sphere of emotional and material dependence, rather than as a front in revolutionary struggle.
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Armed with knowledge
Saskatchewan’s Labour Issues campaign takes aim
The Labour Issues campaign is broadening the base of people who can speak confidently about these issues, organize their communities, and ultimately make demands on government – regardless of which party happens to be in power.
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The teacher trap
Teaching, child care, and women’s work in the “caring professions”
While teaching duties undoubtedly exceed those of child care, how can teachers defend themselves without participating in the downgrading of “caring professions” more broadly?
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Learning to grow
The proliferation of hands-on educational opportunities for wannabe farmers
Farming, in my experience, is too rich, too complex, too full of pleasure and agony to be learned from a distance. You need to wade ankle deep into mud, gorge on warm berries, toss bales until your fingers bleed.
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‘Play in the Hay’ and other agricultural ventures
Agri-tourism responds to urban ignorance
While there is a long history of some agri-tourist ventures like pick-your-own fruit farms, contemporary agri-tourist ventures are responding to specific contemporary realities: urban ignorance about food production and the economic need to instill a love and appreciation for local food in local customers.
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Queer, undocumented and unafraid
Sexuality meets immigration politics in a youth-led movement for immigrant rights
If passed, the DREAM Act would grant conditional permanent residency and a path to citizenship to undocumented students who arrived in the U.S. as minors. This article chronicles the lives of three queer undocumented activists who have risked deportation to fight for its passage.
