As the far-right turns faith into a weapon, Canada’s left needs to rediscover the moral vision it once carried. The social gospel called Christians to organize love into policy—to fight inequality, defend the poor, and build a just society. This legacy once shaped the NDP. As Julie McGonegal writes, it’s high time to remember why.

The Art of Solidarity highlights the deep ties between labour and culture, showing how workers’ creativity fuels resistance, solidarity, and visions for justice. Tracing Canada’s labour arts traditions—from theatre to murals and festivals—the book demonstrates that culture is not a luxury but a vital force in shaping collective futures.

Once the embodiment of American wrestling glory, Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea died a month ago, effectively in exile. Once cheered as a patriotic hero, he fell from grace through scandals, backstage politicking, and cultural shifts. His downfall mirrors how America has, in unsettling ways, come to resemble the hero it turned on.

A non-political civil service, diversity, USAID, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Scholarships, federal funding for scientific and medical research—the Washington Post, the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art, Ivy League universities, “big law”—the great institutions of liberal America are falling to Trump like dominoes, one by one.

While concern for mental health and self-care are increasingly prevalent across US society, our extensive conversations with current and former players to support our new book, The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game, reveal that the world of big-time college football is a clear exception.

We cannot afford to treat the role art has in “politics” as some abstract or existential dilemma. In Toronto, the delegitimization of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian speech has taken on many forms, including high-profile firings, acts of censorship, cancellations and arrests. Indigo and the Giller’s assaults on language have had material, and potentially irreversible, consequences.

In addition to his writing and activism, Alareer taught creative writing and literature at the Islamic University of Gaza. Through his work with We Are Not Numbers and the publication of literary anthologies, Alareer aimed to educate the world about the horrendous conditions Palestinians have been forced to endure under Israeli occupation.

The endemic trauma in American society, which is getting worse under the onslaught of the gig economy, pronounced social inequality, the climate crisis and the seizure of the political process and most institutions by corporations and the ruling oligarchs, is our most serious public health crisis. It has grave individual, social and political consequences.

Katsuhiro Otomo’s legendary anime film Akira (1988) celebrated its 35th anniversary on July 15, 2023. As CD film critic Kalden Dhatsenpa writes, we should remember the movie as a towering achievement of cinema, a cultural landmark depicting the turbulent economic and social history of Japan at the peak of “the biggest asset bubble in history.”

The Asianadian was the first publication of its kind in Canada to host national and progressive conversations about the state of anti-Asian racism. Undertaken by a collective of cultural workers who found their way to Canada, the magazine offered dynamic approaches to discussing Canadian history while celebrating pan-Asian Canadian writing, music, and perspectives.