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Published in: 50.50Young, indigenous and two-spirit: resisting the backlash against our rights
From colonialism to the rise of the far right, two-spirit people have been under attack in the settler-state of...
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Published in: ourEconomyUpdating unions: Toronto Foodora couriers are at the front of a new labour movement
In the fight for unionization within a precarious gig economy, Toronto Foodora couriers are demanding fairer...
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Published in: 50.50There’s a backlash against sex education in ‘Feminist Canada’
Canada appears progressive on the world stage. But under pressure from the Christian right, Ontario’s premier...
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Published in: HomeOpioid crisis: community and care, not law and order, is the answer
Any response to the crisis must address the underlying conditions of drug addiction.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHow Canada marijuana legalization impacts on Latin American drug policy?
Marijuana in Canada is now legal, and while the change is unlikely to have a significant impact on Latin America’s...
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Published in: HomeIs symbolic politics an impediment to economic equality?
The politics of representation are mostly symbolic. In Canada, we have seen over the past two years such a politics...
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Published in: HomeIn defense of free speech
The “No-platforming” of speakers with whom we fundamentally disagree can suggest that force ought to prevail over...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesMethod in Trump’s madness?
A look at Donald Trump’s 'travel bans' with an eye to the harvesting of personal data, and the EU-US Privacy Shield,...
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Published in: HomeTime for the west to fight for the exiled
Today’s autocrats are displaying a growing audacity in their willingness to pursuing dissenters everywhere,...
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Published in: HomeQuestions of interests: Canada and the puzzle of Fiduciary Obligation
Canada is seeking to move towards a new kind of reconciliation with its First Nations. But what does it mean to...
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Published in: HomePenal populism and the BDS movement after Security Council Res. 2334
Despite a backdrop of symbolic mislabelling, campaigns such as BDS seem to have formulated new horizons of civil and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The crime, the time, and the politics of ICTY justice
Radovan Karadzic is my relative, on my mother’s side. For years, I felt uneasy about that and my vehement public...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"The corollary of the derivative is the border": visions for the democratic control of movement
Democracy is created in the seizing of it: those who are democratizing movement are those who, in their actions, are...
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Published in: HomeCanada's back
The situation called for someone to champion Canada. Justin Trudeau did just that -- he took the highroad and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Paris as a test case for the west
One effective way for western governments to keep their people safe is to press for fundamental reforms in countries...
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Published in: 50.50Sea change for gender equity in Canada: great smoke, how much fire?
Justin Trudeau has pledged to open a national inquiry into the staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women...
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Published in: HomeCanadians, go vote to get your money's worth
As Canada prepares to vote in the longest and possibly costliest election of its modern history, high voter turnout...
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Published in: 50.50Energy democracy: building a solar dream in a tar sands nightmare
Refusing to be victims in this game of fossil fuel roulette, communities like Little Buffalo in Alberta are leading...
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Published in: HomeMay 2015, aka “The month I realized dissent was illegal in Canada”
Bill C-51 and this revision to Canada’s hate laws make it possible for reasonable dissent, formerly protected under...
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Published in: 50.50Awaiting justice: Indigenous resistance in the tar sands of Canada
The Nation of the Lubicon Cree is on the frontlines of environmental destruction, as it challenges the forces behind...