2024

1. CBC Radio badly off track with
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   First Published: 2023
3. On military vs political support
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   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
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   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)
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   First Published: 2023
6. South Korea: the 'Land of Morning Calm' is working itself to death
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   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
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   First Published: 2022
3. A future for the past?
   Diemer, Ulli
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   First Published: 2022
4. How are the Germans keeping warm?
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   First Published: 2022
5. Pakistan's coercive sweatshop capitalism
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   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
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   First Published: 2022
   Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
7. Rest in Power, Frank
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   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
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   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"
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   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
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   First Published: 2021
6. Indiana University and South African Divestment
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   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
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   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
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   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. All The Craziest Things About America Are Being Highlighted By This Virus
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   First Published: 2020
   “Corona is a black light and America is a cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan Amram colorfully tweeted a couple of weeks ago. Her observation has only grown more accurate since. The corporate cronyism of America’s political system has been highlighted with a massive kleptocratic multitrillion-dollar corporate bailout of which actual Americans are only receiving a tiny fraction.…
2. Anti-Racist Engagement in the Kansas Free State Struggle, 1854-64: Horace Greeley, German 48-ers, and the Civil War Journalism of Karl Marx, 1861-62
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   First Published: 2020
3. Assam's excluded non-citizens
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   First Published: 2020
4. The Attack On Civil Liberties In The Age Of COVID-19
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   First Published: 2020
   You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured.
   
   This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
5. Austerity Has Weakened Our Ability To Fight The COVID-19 Pandemic
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   First Published: 2020
   I have delivered food parcels to four families this morning,” says Paula Spencer, who runs the community centre in Thanington, a deprived district on the outskirts of Canterbury. Two of the families had called for help because they had symptoms of the coronavirus, and two simply needed food to eat.
6. Bashing Probe Of US War Crimes, Pompeo Threatens Familty Of ICC Staff With Consequences
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   First Published: 2020
   Amnesty International on Wednesday rebuked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over new comments bashing the International Criminal Court and threatening court staff--and their family members--investigating alleged war crimes committed by United States forces in Afghanistan.
   
   "Threats against family members of ICC staff who are seeking justice is a new low, even for this administration," said Daniel Balson, Amnesty International USA's advocacy director.
7. Cage of Gold
   The corrupt business of deportation
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   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.
8. Copenhagen, cycle city
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   First Published: 2020
9. Elder Abuse
   Nursing homes, the coronovirus, and the bottom line
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   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.
10. Election Bias
    The new playbook for voter suppression
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    First Published: 2020
    On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
11. From Occupation To "Occupy": The Israelification Of American Domestic Security
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    First Published: 2020
    One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials.
12. History Buff Shares Love Of City's Past In Old Toronto Series
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    First Published: 2020
    Morgan Cameron Ross discovered his love for learning about Toronto's past simply by going for walks.
    
    "You're walking your dog, looking around, wondering, 'What's that and why's it there?'" Ross said.
    
    "You go home and google it, and it's a rabbit hole."
13. How "Just-In-Time" Capitalism Spread COVID-19
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    First Published: 2020
    Capitalism has accelerated the transmission of diseases. Historically, most epidemics have spread geographically through two common forms of human long-distance movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism.
14. How To Change The Meaning Of Monuments Without Removing Them
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    First Published: 2020
    On Sunday protesters toppled a bronze statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England. It was thrown into a river. Some had tried for years to get rid of the monument but others had rejected that as Colston had also donated a lot for various local social purposes. Some of the institutions he had supported still exist.
15. In the name of rose
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    First Published: 2020
16. Making The Case That Green Politics Must Be Ecosocialist
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    First Published: 2020
    I have recently been reading The Emergence of Ecosocialism, a collection of essays written by the now sadly departed Joel Kovel. Edited by Quincy Saul, and published in 2018, the essays have all been published previously, albeit in subscription journals, mainly Capitalism Nature Socialism, which Kovel edited. One of the main themes that runs through much of the collection is for the need for green politics to fully embrace ecosocialism as its central philosophy, if it is to be effective in tackling the ecological crisis.
17. Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba'
    A case study of corporate media disinformation
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    First Published: 2020
    Some alternative media have exposed the US government and its corporate media fake news reporting on Russian “election interference,” on Venezuela, the war on Syria, China’s Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Nicaragua and Palestine, among others. But one of the longest running media disinformation campaigns has been directed at Cuba. It is well covered in Keith Bolender’s Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba.
18. Mel Watkins: Engagement For The Common Good
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    First Published: 2020
    My dear friend and close associate Melville (Mel) Henry Watkins (1932-2020), the celebrated Canadian political economist, passed away in Ottawa on April 2, 2020, with his beloved wife Kelly Crichton by his side.
19. Miriam Garfinkle Lane
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    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.
20. The Names and Knowledge Initiative
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    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]
21. Nonconforming
    AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
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    First Published: 2020
22. The Prognosis
    Looking the consequences in the eye
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    First Published: 2020
    What has impressed me about the coronavirus is the extent to which its fearsome reputation has eclipsed and occasionally exceeded its actual effects. This is not to deny that some of these effects have been, in places, quite terrible. It is only to point out that the myth of the pandemic -- the story that already clothed it upon arrival -- has sometimes had more influence on policy than the facts of the matter, which are more difficult to ascertain.
23. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
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    First Published: 2020
24. Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
    Connexipedia article
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    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.
25. Vicious Cycles
    Theses on a philosophy of news
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    First Published: 2020
    On the transformation of news media content and consumption in conjunction with democracy and ideology
26. Walmart's planned economy
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    First Published: 2020
    The mighty global chain operates according to highly efficient, constantly reactive, yet long-term plans, which leftwing government can only envy.
27. Why The US Empire Works So Hard To Control The International Narrative About Russia
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    First Published: 2020
    On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom Watch, John Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications, and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up. “Now I want to make the case for secrecy in government when it comes to the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for…
28. Workers have A Birthright To Tell Our Own Stories
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    First Published: 2020
    A conversation with activist and oral historian Candace Wolf about her self-published book of interviews with workers all over the world