
David Gray-Donald is a settler media worker in tkaronto (Toronto). He was the publisher of Briarpatch from 2017-2019, is the current publisher of The Grind magazine in Toronto, and is a co-author of the new book The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada. He worked as a climate campaigner at Environmental Defence from 2022 to March 2023.
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Magazine
Pushing pipeline ownership onto First Nations
How industry and governments hatched plans to pass the most contentious pieces of resource industry infrastructure onto First Nations
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Magazine
The case for large-scale workers’ media in Canada
Unions, union members, and people with access to wealth need to think big about shifting the media landscape in Canada.
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Online-only
Leaked draft of federal UNDRIP legislation fails to inspire on first look
Is UNDRIP legislation just another way for settler governments to delay action and maintain the status quo, or can this legislation truly transform relationships for the better?
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Magazine
What is Land Back? A Settler FAQ
Settlers have a lot of questions about Land Back: What does it mean? Who will the land be given back to? How will it be governed? Will settlers be forced to leave the continent? Brooks Arcand-Paul and Nickita Longman help clear up some of the frequently asked questions about the Land Back movement.
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Online-only
Why a progressive buyer should go for Torstar
The second-largest chain of newspapers in Canada is about to be bought by a couple Conservative-donor businessmen. It’s time for progressive groups and individuals to make a bid for Torstar.
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Online-only
Unpacking the Coastal GasLink injunction and its omissions
How one Canadian judge justified violent theft of Wet’suwet’en land
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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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Sask Dispatch
Northern forests on the chopping block
Logging has nearly quadrupled in the last 10 years, and northern residents are raising red flags about the pace of clear-cutting
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Sask Dispatch
Saskatoon welcomes premiers with climate justice protest
While Canada’s premiers visit Saskatoon, Treaty 6 territory, activists are camping out for four days in Kiwanis Memorial Park to urge action on climate change.
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Sask Wildfire operations funding remains “inadequate”
Despite minor funding hikes for wildfire operations over the past four years, the budget this year is only three-quarters of what it was in 2007-08. As wildfires become more frequent and serious, what is our government going to do about it?
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Magazine
Fund the media you want to see in the world
The right, in general, understands the effectiveness of media manipulation. But does the left understand the importance of funding media? And do we put money into the media we want to see exist?
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
How do we close the renewable energy gap for low-income people?
Low-income people spend more money on energy costs. Regina’s Wascana Solar Co-op is thinking about how to make renewable energy accessible for low-income people.
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Student strike!
On March 15, Regina students gathered in front of the Saskatchewan legislature building as part of a global youth action to push for concrete measures to be taken to address climate change.
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Magazine
Just transition: a vision and a plan
Around us, we see fear and uncertainty about the world that is coming into being. This issue of Briarpatch came from a desire to articulate a hopeful vision of the future, and a plan for how to get there by addressing interwoven social and environmental crises.
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Magazine
How will we pay for a just transition?
Should we rely on governments to provide money for the just transition, or can we build our own non-extractive economies?
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
University of Regina refuses to name funders of fossil fuel research
Professor Emily Eaton is taking the University of Regina to court to force the University to release details of funding for research related to oil, gas, coal, petroleum, carbon capture, climate change, and alternative energy.
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Geothermal power plant to be built with $25.6 million from feds
A major geothermal power generation facility is set to be built in Estevan, SK, Treaty 4 territory.
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Sask Dispatch
4,000 households cut off of housing supplement before application process closed
The Ministry of Social Services says that “approximately 4,000 cases were closed between December 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018.” Unless those 4,000 people who had been cut off appealed the decision before July 1, they would never be eligible to receive the supplement again.
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Sask Dispatch
Saskatoon Co-op strike continues
Workers on strike at Co-op locations in and around Saskatoon have been braving sub-zero temperatures and snow on the picket lines.
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Sask Dispatch
The Fight for $15 in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan has the second-lowest minimum wage in the country – but there’s hope in a fledgling fight for a living wage.