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- Holiday Gift Offer! –It’s that time of year again, when malls become clogged with garish holiday décor and frenzied shoppers. If you’re like us, you might wish you could just skip the mayhem entirely, but still manage to find thoughtful, practical gifts for friends and family.
- Special holiday offer! –{image_1} This holiday season we’ve paired up with our friends from Certain Days for a gift package that keeps giving all year long: Give a 1-year gift subscription to Briarpatch PLUS a Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar for only $35! (The $35 offer is also valid if you…
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- Walchuk, Brad –Brad Walchuk lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and works as a staff representative for CUPE Local 3906, representing roughly 3,000 precariously employed academic workers at McMaster University. He holds an MA in political science from Brock University, where he still occasionally teaches in the department of labour studies.
- Letter from the editor –If the trend toward casualized labour is not vigorously fought by labour activists, we can expect the working conditions of all workers to further deteriorate.
- Trespassers on their own land? –Economic development based on resource extraction and other high- impact activities continues at the expense of traditional Indigenous land-based economies. While military, oil and gas, and uranium industry development in traditional Dene, Cree, and Métis territories offers some wage labour, it displaces traditional labour such as hunting, trapping, fishing, and…
- Interns unite! –If decent, full-time work is getting harder to come by, the same can’t be said for internships, whether unpaid or barely paid. From street protests to online campaigns, the emerging intern activism is one part of the wider effort by fresh actors to reformat labour politics for precarious times.
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- Disconsolatus –Amita Bhatia, of Vahana Films, is an independent filmmaker. _Briarpatch_ contributor Fathima Cader caught up with Bhatia to talk about _Disconsolatus,_ a full-length science-fiction psychodrama that she wrote and directed.
- A crisis in migrant health –In an era of cutbacks – particularly under austerity reforms like reducing migrant wages to 15 per cent below median regional incomes – a long-simmering migrant health crisis is exploding.
- Women take on the trades –Newfoundland is trying to encourage women to enter the professional trades. It can be a daunting challenge for a field in which women account for only 6.4 per cent of the workforce.
- Sichel, Ben –Ben Sichel is a high-school teacher and member of the Dartmouth local of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
- Stevens, Andrew –Andrew Stevens is the co-host of Rank and File Radio rankandfile.ca on CFRC 101.9 FM in Kingston and an assistant professor at the University of Regina.
