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Trauma and damage placed alongside hope and resistance

Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada 2019 Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware University of Regina Press Review by Helen Kennedy White supremacy and colonialism aim to erase the [...]

Sweeping history of the Métis Nation

The North-West Is Our Mother 2019 Jean Teillet Harper Collins Review by Kimball Cariou The development of nations often takes millennia, or at least centuries, a complicated process of forging a common language, culture, history and [...]

A labour of love from a lover of labour

A Worker’s Friend Peter Marcus 2019 Granville Island Publishing “Poetry is a reflection of the society in which we live and its past and its political future,” writes Peter Marcus in the introduction to his book of poetry, A Worker’s [...]

Film uncovers the dirt on greenwashing, but fails to dig up alternatives

Planet of the Humans (2019) Released on YouTube, April 2020 Written and Directed by Jeff Gibbs Producer Michael Moore April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalist all around the world marked this date in [...]

Roger and Me revisited: Lessons from history, for these difficult times

Michael Moore is an amazing documentary filmmaker whose work, such as Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), has inspired viewers around the world. His first celebrated documentary was Roger and Me, released in 1989 and celebrated [...]

From smallpox to COVID-19 – epidemics and Indigenous peoples

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2013) Author: James Daschuk Publisher: University of Regina Press Review by Kimball Cariou What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]

The political and cultural legacy of the ‘Grand Orange Lodge of British America’

Many progressive folks living in Canada consider the historical legacy of Protestant-based community organizations to be a positive one. As examples of this progressive legacy, they often point to Tommy Douglas, the first social-democratic premier [...]

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