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2020 & later Publications
2023
- 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.
- Crokinole
The mysterious origins and enduring popularity of Canada's favourite parlour game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
- 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.
2022
- 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.
- A future for the past?
Diemer, Ulli
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- How are the Germans keeping warm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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").
- 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.
- 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.
- Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
- Jobs, Homes, and the Right to Exist
Neighbourhood Activism in Deindustrializing Toronto and Montreal, 1963 - 1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
- 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.
- 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.
- Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
Resource Type: Article
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.
- A Runner's Journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
2020
- Assam's excluded non-citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- 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.
- Copenhagen, cycle city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- 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.
- 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.
- In the name of rose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Johl Whiteduck Ringuette interviewed by Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2020
- 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.
- Naomi Binder Wall Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2020
Three interviews with Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020.
- Nonconforming
AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- 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.
- 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
- Walmart's planned economy
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2020
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