March/April 2022

How do we avoid a world in which human creativity and knowledge becomes just another occasion for commerce?

If you’re like me, your path out of this prison will follow the path of grief: denial, anger, negotiation, depression. But only acceptance and behavioural modification open the Big Locked Door. The staff say you are here to get better, but you are here to mourn your illusion of sanity.

Three years after leaving my family’s home and leaving the double life I was living as a closeted queer Muslim teen, I moved back. With this series, I explore how my relationship with religion, family, and my own queer identity has grown and has manifested in the atmosphere of our home.

An interview with Chris Dixon on doing research with social movements.

The archives of Canada’s security state are being strangled by secrecy, censorship, and years of delays.

Canada’s predatory lending crisis is no accident.

An interview with Chantelle Spicer and Tashia Kootenayoo on rooting our movements in consent.

Nearly two years after the summer of 2020, donations and public support for Black police abolitionists on the Prairies have dried up. Meanwhile, police budgets keep growing.

Future worlds and survival in a changing present gripped by the Anthropocene are on everyone’s minds, and now is the time to dream and lean into what’s coming.

nowhere is a prison / is a psych ward / is a suicide / is a death / from ‘natural causes’ is a mass grave