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Evaluating the provincial election and what’s next for Ontario’s left.

Stopping Chevron’s Pacific Trail Pipeline this summer could be a decisive event in the history of pipeline resistance.

The injustice of immigration detention is a national disgrace.

How can we adopt the best practices for protest without creating divisions among activists and those in the struggle?

Charting the student movement at the University of Saskatchewan.

America the good; America the imperialist

The new Toronto South Detention Centre asks us to view imprisonment as high-tech innovation.

Deepan Budlakoti’s situation points to an ominous future for citizenship and basic rights in Canada.

Generational justice will be key to any escape from the sinkhole of 3 decades of neoliberalism.

If the post office belongs to everyone, then this is a call to action, a collective opportunity in the making.

Last year, Ryerson University, where I teach, won a Passion Capitalist Award. When I first saw this posted on the university website, I thought the Ryerson public relations machine might be dabbling in satire. Sadly, this was real.

Multinational companies like the American pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly use the doctrine of investor rights to override the common good. A medical doctor calls for greater vigilance.

Rape chants performed at frosh week activities are not isolated incidents but part of rape culture at work.

The fitness industry and the obesity panic are two sides of the same coin, both signs of a serious contempt for the body – at least in its natural state.

The nutrition experiments conducted by the Canadian government on malnourished Native children are part of a long history of experiments in nation-breaking that continue to target children. Being open and honest about what was done to these children and their families is a first step in truth telling about our shared past.

I know it sounds desperate, but a hallucination or two might open up his mind a bit. Perhaps he’ll realize that he who plays good cop forges his own hand cuffs.