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B.C.’s climate adaptation disability crisis
In B.C., 2021 was one of the most extreme weather years on record. Each new crisis pulled the curtain back on an ugly truth about the province’s climate adaptation strategies: they leave disabled residents behind.
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The growing struggle to access gender-affirming health care in rural Canada
Demand for gender-affirming health care is surging across the country. Already facing the brunt of a primary health care crisis, small provinces and territories struggle to meet the need.
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The People Who Own Themselves
A grassroots collective is putting forward a different vision of a Métis future – one based on reciprocity, good governance, and anti-colonialism.
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Stopping the Big Sprawl
In southern Ontario, Doug Ford plans to convert farmland and natural areas into suburban housing. But a coalition of farmers, environmentalists, and Indigenous activists are fighting back, and asking: “Do we need sprawl at all?”
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To save the bees, we must confront capitalist agriculture
Honeybees pollinate millions of acres of monocultured crops and produce vast amounts of honey for sale. They have become workers in the landscapes of capitalist agriculture. But they’re dying at a terrifying pace, plagued by mites, pesticides, and poor nutrition.
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Reflections on winning the Fight for $15 in Saskatchewan
In some ways, winning a $15/hour minimum wage by 2024 is a truly hopeful sign for Saskatchewan politics – and shows that even the most right-wing governments will bow to movement demands. In other ways, it’s deeply inadequate.
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Anatomy of an anti-trafficking policy campaign
In Newmarket, Asian massage workers have been engaged in a battle with the town council, which is intent on shutting down their businesses by claiming that the workers are both disreputable criminals and sex trafficking victims.
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radiant incipience
the revolution will need savvy / party planners, capable / of seeing / how the carnival’s already here.
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Indigenous persistence reading list
These books and films represent an unflinching critique of colonialism from a perspective where the personal and the political cannot be separated.
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The birds shall return: Imagining Palestinian feminist futurities
Envisioning a liberated Palestine means imagining liberated Palestinian women. What is a Palestinian feminist future, and how do we get there?
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The right to return to work
At the beginning of the pandemic, the Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotels laid off their workers – then refused to hire them back. Hotel workers are fighting for their jobs, and for the future of the hotel industry after the pandemic.
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“Safe supply is the future”
From drug users in Vancouver to opium poppy growers in Mexico, activists across borders say safe and legal drugs will save lives.
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The myth of police as “embattled heroes”
The Winnipeg police union says officers are constantly under attack by everything from “gang members” to video games to bedbugs. It’s a strategy to persuade the public that the only solution is more police and more money.
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Building feminist, anti-racist unions
More strategies for challenging patriarchal white supremacy in labour
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Divestment and beyond
Lessons for the climate justice movement from the University of Toronto fossil fuel divestment campaign.
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Feminist imagination
Mainstream feminism’s wildest dreams involve women being represented at the top of their fields. It’s a depressingly bland and narrow dream. This issue of Briarpatch thinks bigger, asking: how can we ensure all women are safe, healthy, cared for, and free?
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Talking consent
An interview with Chantelle Spicer and Tashia Kootenayoo on rooting our movements in consent.
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Administrative sabotage
The archives of Canada’s security state are being strangled by secrecy, censorship, and years of delays.
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Research for transforming the world
An interview with Chris Dixon on doing research with social movements.