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Summer 2024

Creating community care

London, Ontario's chapter of Food Not Bombs reawakens amidst rising homelessness and food insecurity

Kendra Seguin

Allyson Proulx wants people to know that she and Andy Cadotte do not speak for all of the volunteers in Forest City Food Not Bombs. They are just two people in a collective looking to create change in London, Ontario. Forest City Food Not Bombs is a volunteer collective addressing food insecurity, poverty, and homelessness […] More »
Summer 2024

Save the children

What progressive Albertans can do in the face of the province's proposed gender policies

Natasha Chiam

On a cloudy February day in Edmonton, Alberta, a giant trans pride flag flies over Dr. Wilbert McIntyre Park, marking the meeting place for a rally in support of the trans community. It’s days after Premier Danielle Smith, in a seven-minute video posted online, announced the most restrictive gender policies in Canada under the guise […] More »
Fall 2024

Night moves

Marginalized people are key to nocturnal scenes, but new Montreal policy misses the memo

Leina Gabra

The graffiti-covered Van Horne skatepark on the edge of Montreal’s Mile End is usually dotted with boys in beanies and sneakers, launching themselves into the rink with the cracking sound of skateboard wheels hitting concrete. But, every Thursday night for a brief stint during the summer of 2021, they were replaced with a different crowd: […] More »
Summer 2024

Breaking barriers

A landmark move to combat caste discrimination in Canadian academia

Shilpashree Jagannathan

In the heart of the city, while more than 385,000 South Asians go about their lives, the University of Toronto (U of T) has quietly set a precedent. Amid the clamour for social justice and equality, U of T’s teaching assistants have negotiated with their union to include caste as a discriminatory practice—a move that […] More »
Spring 2025

On motherhood and activism through a genocide

A new mother reflects on connecting with Palestinians through faith

Zehra Kamani

On October 7, 2023, I was just about three months pregnant. As a genocide unfolded before our eyes in the weeks that followed, I reflected a lot on the parallel lives mothers live on both sides of this dystopian world. Like many others, my social media feed exposed me to countless images of the Israeli […] More »
Spring 2025

Changing the narrative

Consulting firm supports Indigenous sovereignty

Alisha Mughal

For Somia Sadiq, a registered professional planner and founder of Winnipeg-based impact assessment consulting firm Narratives Inc., we don’t tell ourselves stories in order to live. Rather, we live in order to carry them. To pass them along. The government of Canada’s website defines impact assessment as a tool used by those spearheading major projects, […] More »
Spring 2025

Vagina dialogues

Has the internet killed feminist health activism?

Jac D.B.

When I learned I had precancerous lesions on my cervix and that my doctor was recommending I remove them surgically, my reaction went as follows: One, muted panic. Two, I’m definitely going to die. Three, Wait, what does that even mean? So I did what anyone in possession of an Internet connection in 2021 would […] More »
Winter 2024

Housing handcuffs

As rent becomes less affordable, a would-be mom searches for solutions

Rachel Cairns

  “This is not a scam,” I read the email aloud to my partner. “We are seniors looking to move to Nova Scotia and have a 2-bedroom plus den.” The sender had reached out after reading an opinion piece I wrote for Family Day, responding to headlines about Canada’s declining birth rate. In the article, I […] More »
Winter 2024

From the river to the street

In small Canadian cities, street art fuels Palestinian resistance

Saffina Jinnah

Yara Jamal rarely heard anyone mention Palestine in Halifax, and it made her feel lonely. “Being Palestinian is such a controversial thing,” she says. “I felt like there was genuinely no representation of Palestine or presence of Palestine in the Maritimes at all.” Jamal was born and raised in Kuwait and is a first-generation Canadian […] More »
Winter 2024

Move us out and we’ll move on over you

Toronto needs housing for Black artists

Adebe DeRango-Adem

I am a professional writer and spoken word artist. I’ve been sharing my work—and making space for other artists to create and share their work—in Toronto for nearly 20 years. I am of East African descent, with a heritage and history rooted in oral traditions. Toronto is where I was born, and it’s where I […] More »
Winter 2024

Serving liberation

How food is feeding the Palestinian cause

Shanai Tanwar

When Samer Alghosain first immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1999, a tradition was born that paved his way to becoming a restaurateur. Every Friday, he and his family would pile dishes on the table that smelled, tasted, and felt like home, crafted with love from recipes that were handed down generation after […] More »