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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.
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Special holiday offer!
{image_1} We’re sold out of the Certain Days calendars! Check back next year for our 2021 calendar offer. You can still buy the 2020 calendar at certaindays.org. And you can still get a great deal on one, three, or ten Briarpatch gift subscriptions. This holiday season we’ve paired up with…
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Order #1474
Order #1474
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Order #1473
Order #1473
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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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Order #1467
Order #1467
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sichel, Ben
Ben Sichel is a high-school teacher and member of the Dartmouth local of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
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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.
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Prier, Nate
Nate Prier is a student, writer, researcher, and educator living, loving, and working in Toronto. He organizes with migrant justice, labour, and Indigenous solidarity struggles.
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Order #1458
Order #1458
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Hussan, Syed
Syed Hussan is a Toronto based activist. You can follow him on Twitter at @hussansk.
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Cohen, Nicole
Nicole Cohen is an assistant professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture and Information Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
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de Peuter, Greig
Greig de Peuter teaches in the department of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Cuffe, Sandra
Sandra Cuffe is a freelance journalist reporting on Indigenous, environmental, and human rights issues in Canada and Central America.
