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Flashback Tuesday: “Pipelines and Pipedreams”
January 24, 2012 • In this week’s installment, we take you back to 1982 as Mel Watkins takes a look at the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline. The pipeline was originally planned in the 1970s to run natural gas from Alaska to the American midwest via several thousand kilometres of pristine Canadian wilderness. Although the plan was eventually scaled down... More »
Flashback Tuesday: “Trading Futures”
January 17, 2012 • In honour of our January-February edition, This Magazine waded through hundreds of archived stories on Canada’s complex and often fraught relationship with our neighbours to the south. The result: Twelve favourites that span the period from Trudeau-Nixon to Chrétien-Bush. Together, these stories offer a fascinating cross-section of the events that have helped shaped contemporary American-Canadian... More »
Occupy: a thorn in the side of every presidential hopeful
January 5, 2012 • “Lets see, there was David, Jess, Erin, Frankie, Kevin, Kalen…” It’s just past 2 p.m. on the last day of 2011, and Jessica Mizour, 24, of Des Moines, Iowa, is jotting down the names of the protesters who were moments ago arrested at Michele Bachman’s Iowa campaign headquarters. “…Peter from St. Paul, Brian from New... More »
Occupy: Will splinter groups build the movement or dilute its potency?
December 19, 2011 • Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia was in Los Angeles last week. Here, she chronicles the Occupy I.C.E. march and... More »
Rosemary Sullivan’s new kids’ picture book is anti-fascist fun
November 30, 2011 • This Magazine editor-at-large and longtime friend of the magazine Rosemary Sullivan (she was part of our special 45th anniversary issue) wrote recently to tell us about her latest project, a children’s book, co-authored with Chilean-Canadian author Juan Opitz, with a very unusual pedigree. Molito is the story of a little mole having adventures above ground, but his... More »
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on why Occupy Harvard matters: “Harvard exists to feed the plutocracy”
November 29, 2011 • Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia has been in Boston since Saturday. She listened to journalist Chris Hedges address Occupy Harvard... More »
Following Insite ruling, safe-injection sites planned for Montreal and Quebec City
November 28, 2011 • In September, an eagerly-awaited Supreme Court ruling allowed Vancouver’s Insite injection clinic to remain open indefinitely. And now, Quebec is joining the ranks of Canadian cities with safe-injection sites. Yves Bolduc, Quebec’s Health and Social Services Minister, in October announced his support of an initiative to open injection clinics in Montreal and Quebec City. While... More »
Occupy the Highway: why mobile protest may be the future of Occupy Wall Street
November 25, 2011 • Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia has been with the Washington, D.C. encampment since Monday. Here, she chronicles... More »
Ontario breaks its own laws to search for gold on Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug land
November 24, 2011 • Activist, writer, and professor Judy Rebick has long been a fighter for social justice. Still, when she spoke at Ryerson University in Toronto last Tuesday about the struggles of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI), she muses about how she can still be surprised when the government breaks its own laws. Sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Students, the Council... More »
Here are the winners of the 2011 Great Canadian Literary Hunt
November 22, 2011 • We’re very happy to share with you the winners and finalists of the 15th Annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt, all of which you’ll be able to read on the website starting tomorrow. Third-place finalists will be online on Wednesday, second-place finalists on Thursday, and the winners on Friday. In the poetry category, Frances Boyle won for... More »
Occupy Wall Street’s day of action in New York: how it went down
November 21, 2011 • Lia Grainger is a Canadian journalist. She is currently travelling across the United States interviewing activists from across the political spectrum. To follow her trip, visit Awinterofdiscontent.com. We’ll be cross-posting some of her blog posts on the This blog as she travels. Lia spent November 17 in New York. This is what she saw. November 17... More »
“Obedience is the problem”: Don’t let legal wrangling distract from Occupy’s message
November 17, 2011 • One consequence of efforts to evict Occupy encampments in countless cities across the continent has been the dilution of much of the mainstream debate around the movement to a focus on the extent to which it complies with the law. Organizations like the Canadian Civil Liberties Association have put forth compelling arguments that “Freedom of... More »
January 26, 2012
For decades, the Haudenosaunee have protested a border they didn’t draw
On the second Saturday of every July, the Haudenosaunee people march across the border at Niagara Falls to remind North America of a message: “We are not American. We are not Canadian. We are Haudenosaunee.” Harry Doxtator can remember attending the ceremony as a toddler, and now sits on the Border Crossing Committee as the… More »
