Tag: Politics

Through handshakes behind closed doors, with refugees as commodities and borders as bargaining chips, our migration system is crumbling

Doubling down in the face of harassment allegations isn’t helping anyone.

I know it sounds desperate, but a hallucination or two might open up his mind a bit. Perhaps he’ll realize that he who plays good cop forges his own hand cuffs.

Briarpatch has always been a labour of love, the key to its unlikely success, as past editor Dave Mitchell notes. “It consistently leads with the heart, and so it’s able to produce quality journalism with a tragic fraction of the masthead depth of most publications.”

As Pauline Marois’ Parti Québécois tries to repackage the Charest government’s neoliberal policies, resistance to the massive Plan Nord project is escalating among the northern Innu people and their allies. Even as band councils enter negotiations with the Canadian government, grassroots activists inspired by Idle No More are fighting for Indigenous autonomy and their traditional territories.

Even with the recommended oversight, CSIS has not proven immune to abuses of power and the law.

Rethinking the politics of labour in Canada offers a sombre yet honest analysis of the current situation of labour politics