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Review: Disidentifications
My review of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics.
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Québec solidaire struggles to define its space in shifting political landscape
About 400 members of Québec solidaire met here December 9-11 in a delegated convention to debate and adopt positions on major social and cultural questions. The convention capped the third phase in a lengthy process of developing what the left-wing sovereigntist party describes as a program of social transformation
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A diamond is forever
Somewhere, probably about the time we negotiated the treaties, we slipped back into our colonial ways. We not only rammed the Aboriginal canoe, but boarded it, plundered it and, in trying to steer it through their own waters, have all but wrecked it.
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Ethical Oil is Snake Oil
Talking about ethical oil is like saying guns don’t kill people.
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New Colours of Resistance Archive!
This is a post of an email announcement I received the other day about a new online archives of anti-racism/anti-oppression organizing material produced by the Colours of Resistance network from 2000 to 2006. Well worth checking out!
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The Harper Government’s bogus case for a border deal with the US: check out the numbers
Instead of fostering the needed debate, the Harper government is tying us every more tightly aboard the chariot of a declining superpower.
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It’s the economy, Dippers
The NDP leadership race suddenly seems like a very long, drawn out affair. Initially, there was much outrage – especially from Thomas Mulcair – at the suggestion that the party go along with what Jack Layton seemed to want: an earlier leadership convention in January. But now many in the party, lead by Winnipeg MP Pat Martin worry that the party’s performance in the Commons is suffering because many of its strongest MPs are out of their critic roles and pre-occupied with the race.
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Fox News North—your national, pro-war TV Network
While Sun TV is not, thankfully, being piped into every Canadian living room, the prediction that it would mimic Fox News is undeniable. The most recent example is the networks nasty, over-the-top attack on Steven Staples, the man who runs the Rideau Institute and its anti-war project, Ceasefire.ca
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Journalism and the Toronto G20
This post is a critical examination of a piece called “Coverage of G20 poses challenge for journalists” published in the Toronto Star on the first day of last year’s G20 summit in Toronto.
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We can do better: Attawapiskat
The dialogue around the tragedy at Attawapiskat has taken a nasty turn in the last few days. From justifiable shock and outrage that a community in Canada (any community in Canada) can be living in such squalor, to blame and finger-pointing.
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