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Students, not clients
At a time when post-secondary education is a minimal requirement for obtaining an average income, much the same as a high school diploma was for the parents of striking students, demands for free tuition hardly betray inordinate entitlement or fanciful utopianism.
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Pipeline to prison
Canada’s education system, imposed upon Indigenous people for hundreds of years, plays a powerful role in constructing the notion of public enemies in need of discipline and containment.
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From the classroom to the boardroom
With constitutional challenges to the Special Law pending in Quebec courts, the fate of the student movement very much depends on whether the law will be massively defied beginning August 13, when three of 14 CÉGEPs are scheduled to reopen for the completion of the suspended winter semester.
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September/October 2012
For the the past three decades, the neoliberal restructuring of education has sought to implant market logic and coroporate-style management into the classroom, transforming students into clients who shoulder the financial burden of their education. This issue of Briarpatch looks at the university as a critical field of contestation, and…
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Defunding the public interest
Some PIRG supporters fear that adopting controversial positions will provoke attack. Especially after a defunding effort, PIRGs tend to endure a chilling effect during which volunteers and staff can be seduced by “neutrality” and engage in self-censorship.
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Red light on the Red Cross in Haiti?
More than two years after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, there’s little to show for the $200 million in donations pledged to the Canadian Red Cross for reconstruction efforts. After historic outpourings of support, why has there been so little progress on the ground in Haiti?
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Sing, Brother
I reached Edmonton’s High Level Bridge as clusters of snowflakes clouded the sky. It was Friday night, already dark, and I was alone but for a young man in black who passed me from the opposite ledge.
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Hearing Two-Spirits
A combination of both the masculine and feminine, the Two-Spirited are a distinct gender with roles and responsibilities unique to their dual nature.
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Infored
Rappers like InfoRed and Eekwol have great potential to reconnect youth to their culture through Aboriginal storytelling.
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Captain Naphi and the great white mole
The origin of the railsea is unknown. Some say the gods put down the train tracks or that they extruded from the ground like exposed fossils. Others say that the rails were written “in heavenly script, that people unknowingly recited as they travelled.”
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The combustible campus
The neoliberalization of the university has produced its own antagonists, and it is from the ranks of those who stand to lose the most from this transformation – students and academic workers – that the greatest conflicts have emanated.
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SUBSCRIBER ALERT!
It has come to our attention that some subscribers may have received a faulty copy of the September/October 2012 issue, with pages 13-16 absent and pages 9-12 repeated.
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