2024

1. CBC Radio badly off track with
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2024
   I’m not surprised that many of my friends have abandoned CBC Radio. I think traditional listeners are leaving in droves. CBC Radio is fixated on building an audience by providing trivial, entertainment-like. For many managers, numbers are more important than content.
2. World Hijab Day: Unveiling is Strength
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2024
   This year's World Hijab Day’s theme is Veiling is Strength but it doesn’t take strength to do as you are told. The veiling of women is a religious imposition, often via force and compulsion.

2023

1. Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
   A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
2. Crokinole
   The mysterious origins and enduring popularity of Canada's favourite parlour game
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
3. On military vs political support
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
   Why the Bolshevik Tendency favours a Russian military victory over US/NATO and its Ukrainian proxy.
4. Rage Against the Noose
   How four Canadian journalists helped to kill capital punishment
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
   Focuses on four journalists who fought the death penalty: Betty Lee, Jacques Hebert, J.E. Belliveau, Isabel LeBourdais, and the cases they wrote about: Wilbert Coffin, Steven Truscott, Arthur Lucas, and Ronald Turpin.
5. Remembering Reg McQuaid (1935-2023)
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
6. South Korea: the 'Land of Morning Calm' is working itself to death
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2023
   South Korea is often held up as a model of modern technological capitalism. But daily life for many South Koreans is much harsher than the glossy image projected by its popular culture.

2022

1. Di-Bayn-Di-Zi-Win: To Own Ourselves
   Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2022
   A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notion of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.
2. Gentrifying America's school system
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
3. A future for the past?
   Diemer, Ulli
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
4. How are the Germans keeping warm?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
5. Pakistan's coercive sweatshop capitalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
   Pakistan's textile industry is a major supplier for Western discount clothing brands. This means nothing is allowed to disrupt productivity; workers' rights and safety are frequently flouted, and police and private security firms use intimidation and violence to ensure the machines keep running.
6. PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
   Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
7. Rest in Power, Frank
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
   Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
8. Scramble to be Africa's window on the world
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
   Several nations are boosting their presence in Africa in a quest for trade opportunities, status and influence. A key way of pursuing this is through the media, in what's become a propaganda war.
9. The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
   How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2022
   Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.

2021

1. Afghanistan and the "experts"
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
2. The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
3. Don't expect tech giants to build back better
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
4. Dreams of Harmony
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Article in the April-May 2021 issue of Canada's History magazine on the Soinula utopian community founded on Malcolm Island in British Columbia around 1900.
5. Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
6. Indiana University and South African Divestment
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   About the anti-apartheid divestment movement at Indiana University.
7. Jobs, Homes, and the Right to Exist
   Neighbourhood Activism in Deindustrializing Toronto and Montreal, 1963 - 1989
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2021
8. Mighty Moe book review
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
9. Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian public
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   Historians express grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association's2021 Canada Day Statement.
10. Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
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    First Published: 2021
    The bottom linecknowledge, is that private ownership is associated with overcrowding, failure to invest in modernization, and more deaths. This certainly seems like an argument in favour of ending private ownership of long-term care facilities.
11. A Runner's Journey
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021

2020

1. Assam's excluded non-citizens
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
2. Cage of Gold
   The corrupt business of deportation
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   On the Bracero Program that perpetuated violence and exploitation against Mexican laborers, and argues for a reckoning with this history in US-Mexico relations.
3. Copenhagen, cycle city
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
4. Elder Abuse
   Nursing homes, the coronovirus, and the bottom line
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   Neglect of the elderly in nursing homes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of the US healthcare system (Medicaid) to support the elderly.
5. Election Bias
   The new playbook for voter suppression
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
6. In the name of rose
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
7. Miriam Garfinkle Lane
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
8. The Names and Knowledge Initiative
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
   In October 2014 the HBCA established the Names and Knowledge Initiative. The goals of the project are twofold: to name unidentified or misidentified people and places in HBCA records and to make these records accessible to the individuals and communities the records are about. [HBCA = Hudson's Bay Company Archives]
9. Nonconforming
   AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2020
10. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
11. Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
12. Vicious Cycles
    Theses on a philosophy of news
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    On the transformation of news media content and consumption in conjunction with democracy and ideology
13. Walmart's planned economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The mighty global chain operates according to highly efficient, constantly reactive, yet long-term plans, which leftwing government can only envy.