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• The Shipbuilder, Dog River and other roadside delights –Along with the Roughriders and the “greatest Canadian,” Tommy Douglas, Saskatchewanians should also boast about their unique tourist gems which always take on a Saskatchewan flavour: intriguing, charming, unexpected.
• Little footprint on the Prairie –As Saskatchewan celebrates a period of economic growth and prosperity not seen since the first three decades of the 20th century, it does so at a precarious time for the planet.
• December 2008 –In our special focus on Canada’s most red hot (and easiest to draw) province, “Saskatchewan Rising: Dispatches from Canada’s Crucible,” Briarpatch sails a prairie schooner through a city of charlatans, assesses the folly of bargain-basement resource royalty rates, speaks with Naomi Klein about what the Left can and should do…
• A SLAPP in the face for free speech –There’s something particularly disheartening when a media corporation abandons free speech principles. Journalists are supposed to be the good guys when it comes to freedom of expression, right? Shouldn’t media managers, of all people, support these principles?
• Haiti and the Canadian labour movement –Trade union activists in Canada have initiated a project to deepen ties of solidarity with the people of Haiti and popular Haitian organizations. The Haiti Union Solidarity Fund was launched in January of this year by union members in the Canada Haiti Action Network.
• Northern exclusion –Nunavut, “our land” in Inuktitut, was the result of more than 30 years of negotiations and planning by the Inuit of the Eastern and Central Arctic. So why are these original inhabitants, the overwhelming majority of people in the territory, not the principal beneficiaries of their land’s economic development?
• Canada does Colombia –Canada is very close to jumping into bed with one of the worst human rights violators in the hemisphere, and almost no one seems to have noticed.
• Union organizing 2.0 –The shift in people’s media habits away from top-down broadcast media like television towards more interactive network media opens up interesting possibilities for grassroots democracy and political organizing. Labour unions are increasingly taking notice, and beginning to adapt the technologies to their own uses.
• Adventures in coordinated bargaining –There are no prepared documents. There’s no agenda. Your job, along with the other hundred front-line members of the Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee (OUWCC), is to set priorities for the sector for the next three years, to tackle obstacles to that work, and to look for concrete ways to…
• Too little too late? –Canadian labour leaders and activists will need to be proactive and creative in the coming months and years if they hope to avoid the fate of those Oshawa auto workers.
• Liliany Obando –Liliany Obando was arrested—in front of her two children and elderly mother at their Bogota apartment—on August 8, 2008 by the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the Colombian National Police.
• The butterfly in the classroom –At last fall’s University of Toronto conference on academic freedom, _Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach,_ James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, offered some useful reminders about the intersection of schools with free expression.
• Economics for everyone –Book review of Jim Stanford’s _Economics for everyone: A short guide to the economics of capitalism._
• November 2008 –In this special focus on workplace activism, Briarpatch looks at unions’ increasing use of social networking tools, assesses the prospects for the Canadian labour movement heading into a recession, travels with solidarity activists to Colombia and Haiti, asks why CanWest can’t take a joke, and more.
• Letter from the editor –A celebration of Briarpatch’s jade anniversary.
• Peace begins at home –The U.S. imperial project in Afghanistan has faltered. The government created by the United States lacks credibility and legitimacy. The vast majority of the people remain poor. The drug economy is dominant. Despite an increase in NATO military forces, the armed resistance led by the Taliban is increasing in strength.…
• Mock justice –An examination of the Omar Khadr case and why he should walk free.
• Not wanted after the voyage –It’s a Tuesday evening in Paris, and in the predominantly immigrant neighbourhood of Belleville, people from all corners of the world are crowding into the metro station. Tension is high tonight; for many, this ride home could be their last in France.
• Damned if you do, damned if you don’t –Once Hydro-Québec completes work, now started, to divert most of the kilometre-wide Rupert River into reservoirs along the Eastmain and La Grande River systems further north, the impact on the traditional hunting, fishing and trapping grounds—and on the culture they sustain—will be devastating. Seeking to stop the development, the province’s…
• September/October 2008 –In this, our 35th anniversary issue, Briarpatch tackles stories ranging from an in-depth look at the outrages of the Omar Khadr case to the politics of immigration in France & Canada, from an assessment of the alternatives for Canada in Afghanistan to an exploration of the culture of youth gun…