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Tag: City Politics

  • Magazine

    The theft of the present

    by Emily Leedham   Dec 27, 2018   4 min read

    Winnipeg has been shaped by settler city planners and capitalists who sidelined Indigenous plans for decolonized urban development. Emily Leedham reviews Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews.

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    Where is the unions’ inspiration in the fight against Doug Ford?

    by John Clarke   Oct 29, 2018   3 min read

    Unions are some of the only progressive organizations with the power to bring production to a halt and to stop the flow of goods and services – and they need to use their power to fight Ford.

  • Magazine

    Politics in Suburbia

    by Rohan Quinby   Aug 16, 2016   8 min read

    How does suburban sprawl alter geographies of protest and dissent?

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    The Rise of Philanthrocapitalism

    by Ivan Drury   Sep 1, 2014   11 min read

    Why have our cities become increasingly stratified places, where farmers’ markets flourish amid escalating inequality and skyrocketing housing costs?

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