Emily Eaton is an associate professor of geography at the University of Regina specializing in political economy and ecology.
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Sask Dispatch
Rescuing Renewable Regina
When the City of Regina invited a climate change denier to their sustainable cities conference, it wasn’t a mistake. It was part of a larger pattern of the City walking back its own goal to become 100 per cent renewable by 2050.
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Magazine
A just transition requires a planned economy. But whose plan?
Corporate, for-profit planning, aided and violently enforced by the settler colonial state of Canada, will not bring about a just transition.
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Magazine
Socializing and decolonizing Saskatchewan’s oil
Could a new crown corporation – SaskOil – allow us to wind down the industry, get off oil, keep people employed, and repatriate land, resources, and decision-making to Indigenous peoples?
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Magazine
Inside Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy
How are workers in the oil and gas industry affected by Saskaboom’s bust?
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Magazine
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Davis calls for this generation to fight for full substantive freedoms, so that future generations will not be left addressing the same issues.
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Online-only
The Husky Oil Spill: Just One of 18,000
Understanding the pipeline spill that has sparked a water crisis in communities along the North Saskatchewan River.
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Magazine
What is the creative class?
The “creative class” is a concept developed by Richard Florida that proposes a new way of understanding the engines driving wealth creation. Florida charts a shift in North America away from manufacturing economies focused on mass production to “post-industrial” economies where the new drivers of economic development are creative professionals, specifically a “super-creative core” (including artists and designers) and “creative professionals” (including managers and lawyers).