Politics
It’s elbows up — but also shut the fuck up
October 4, 2026Political canvassing is not for the faint of heart. When some fellow leftist organizers I work with asked me to go doorknocking, I almost said no. But, what the heck, I thought. Carney’s inaction on literally everything is so, plainfully obvious. So I thought. I ended up being so scared I could only knock on one house a day. First house (day 1) Plush, neatly mown lawn. Hopefully these residents weren’t ignoring water restrictions. With those new AI data centres, they might have to get used to it . . . Me: Carney is proposing a pipeline to “deliver oil…
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Political reads: The Last Honest Man by James Risen
June 7, 2026Pulitzer prize-winning journalist James Risen captures the consequential life of Senator Frank Church in his aptly-titled book: The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and the Kennedys — and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy. Church, who…
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Fascism across borders: the Canadian companies collaborating with ICE
March 9, 2026Content warning: mentions of gun violence. The United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has enacted detentions and mass deportations against undocumented immigrants for over two decades — this has surged in frequency since President Donald Trump’s second term began.…
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“Science lost to fear”: BC’s halted drug decriminalization program
February 16, 2026In January 2026, the BC government announced their drug decriminalization policy “has not delivered the results we hoped for” and that the province would not seek renewal from the federal government. The three-year pilot program, an exemption to the Controlled…
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Three films that challenge our perception of war
July 16, 2025Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov’s film tells the story of a boy named Flyora living in what is now Belarus. Located in a small village, the boy discovers a rifle which propels his eagerness to join his town’s resistance…
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Pride, politics, and the pause on performative allyship
July 1, 2025Taking a stand on certain issues is a useful tactic for businesses to connect with their consumers. For example, the recent Canada-US trade war has motivated Canadian companies to advertise using the “Buy Canadian” trend. Unsurprisingly, companies capitalize on their…
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From capitalism to colonialism, how do structures of power control the way we think?
June 18, 2025The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi Rashid Khalidi’s account of the oppression faced by Palestinians is the perfect place to start for those who have limited knowledge of Palestinian history. Khalidi covers the Israeli occupation of Palestine…
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Trudeau’s ingenuine approach to being deemed progressive
March 27, 2025In a recent speech, ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau firmly declared he is a Zionist. There was no hesitation, just offensive, misinformed statements spewing from his mouth. He began his atrocious speech with a completely botched definition of Zionism — he…
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Non-violent and non-physical forms of protests
March 20, 2025Gwangju, Tiananmen, Sidi Bouzid, Yangon, Bangkok, and Kyiv — these are just some places that have exemplified the efforts of ordinary people in their fight against authoritarian governments. In protests like these, citizens face off squarely against armed and equipped…
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Myanmar, four years into the military dictatorship
March 20, 2025Content warning: Mentions of murder, massacres, conflict, and brief mention of mutilation. It was the last day of January, coup rumours from the previous days were dying down and I went to bed, hoping for a normal school day the…
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