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• 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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• In mourning –Do we use our mourning to install cops in our holy places? Or do we use it to galvanize us to rise up against occupation, against land theft, against the corporations that would profit from our destitution and death?
• FOR THE DREAMERS –“In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.” Creative non-fiction winner of…
• If only they knew what we know now –I often wondered how many other young folks of Japanese ancestry had their history torn from them because of Canada’s history of Japanese internment – a pondering that eventually turned into this photography series, _The Suitcase Project._ Photography winner of of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• Saving Akikodjiwan –Developers are building condos on top of sacred Algonquin Anishinabeg islands. Why are Indigenous sacred sites not given the same legal protections as settler ones?
• Bodies on the Line –Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline replacement slices through the southern half of Saskatchewan, but there’s little Indigenous opposition in the province. To mount our own fight, we’ll have to learn from other Indigenous resistance efforts along the pipeline’s route.
• How can farmers fight back against the new NAFTA? –NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at hard-won policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union is fighting back – at the level of both grassroots and policy.
• “Pacifying the unruly city” –Official laws and social norms are wielded as tools of control to preserve urban parks as spaces for middle-class white settlers. Jessica DeWitt reviews _On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land_ by Matt Hern, Selena Couture, Daisy Couture, and Sadie Couture.
• wepâhokiw –“there is a scene in smoke signals where the sad native boy cries as he pours his father over bridge into / roaring angry always been there river / and i could not help but picture myself entangling in the meander.” Poetry winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• March/April 2019 –Inside Indian-occupied Kashmir’s deadliest year in a decade. The fight to protect an Algonquin sacred site from a condo development. The resurgence of the Jewish left in Canada. Saving Canada’s supply management system. Tracking the Indigenous opposition to Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement along the proposed route of the pipeline. A…
• Our Hair Story –“She doesn’t understand that she was born into a white supremacist society that devalues and underestimates Black women. Instead, she only knows that she doesn’t have ‘good hair.’” Photography runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• dis place –“I joke that I’ve been playing hide-and-seek with U.S. immigration since 2003. With the announcement of DACA in 2012, the game has shifted to legal limbo, purgatory, how low can you go?” Creative non-fiction runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• johnnie walker walks –“my father can’t kill us because respectable brown man / because i’m his name / because service worker / because why kill me when he can / make me / kill myself?” Poetry runner-up of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• A nursery tale of the sea –“There is a Sunday quietness / to the sea with just one diseased whale with sad, ulcerous eye / and her dead calf swirling around the tepid / teacup of brown water.” Best of Regina winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
• Yogarajah, Mirusha –Mirusha Yogarajah is a Tamil kid who writes to heal. She likes Bananagrams, cheese plates, and her friends.
• Sutjipto, Angel –Angel Sutjipto (she/they) was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. They’ve been playing limbo with U.S. immigration authorities since 2003 and are over it.
• Cain, Solana –Solana Cain is a freelance photojournalist and facilitator based in Toronto (www.solanacain.com).  She is passionate about capturing empowering and authentic images of Black women and girls.
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