By Rolando Pérez Betancourt They denied it for many years, but the weight of reality ended up tipping the balance. Disney has finally acknowledged on its gigantic streaming platform that there are racist stereotypes and other offensive material [...]
As if 2020 wasn’t challenging enough. At the end of August, Chadwick Boseman passed after privately battling colon cancer for four years. Boseman was an actor, producer and writer who starred in several films highlighting the careers of prominent [...]
The Business of Drugs Netflix series hosted by Amarylis Fox Directed by Erik Osterholm, Jesse Sweet, Nick Carew, Eric Strauss Much of the world is facing a crisis around the use and abuse of various sorts of substances, with different [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
