One Day Longer? The Vale-Inco Strike Comes to a Close
(Published at Z-Net on July 23, 2010.) On July 7 and 8, 2010, striking members of United Steel Workers Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, voted 75% in favor of a contract that ended a bitter strike...
View ArticleReview: Men and Feminism
(Published at XYOnline on August 14, 2010.) [Shira Tarrant. Men and Feminism. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2009.] I sometimes find it hard to properly evaluate political books that are intended as...
View ArticleChallenging Masculinity is About Much More Than ‘Unloading This Junk’
(Published at XYOnline on August 14, 2010.) A recent article called “5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men” by Greta Christina raises the important questions of how “sexism hurts men” and...
View ArticleStriking in a Time of Austerity: The NOSM Strike in Northern Ontario
(Published in The Bullet: Socialist Project E-bulletin on October 3, 2010.) The 150 members of Unit 2 of Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) Local 677 have been on strike since August 16....
View ArticleNeliberalism and Home Care
(Published in Linchpin in December 2010.) “If your Mom didn’t take care of you [when you were a child], would you be able to go to work?” Those are the words of trade union activist, graduate student,...
View ArticleFeelings About Masculinity
(Published at XYOnline on January 7, 2011.) I was recently puzzling over why I was having such difficulty doing a particular piece of writing. Everything I tried felt a little off key, a little false,...
View ArticleResisting Austerity: Don’t (Just) Show Me the Money
(Published at New Socialist Webzine on April 18, 2011.) We hear a lot these days about the need for cuts to public spending, for saving money. The use of this rhetoric to cover massive changes in how...
View ArticleImperialist Canada: A Review
(Published at Left Eye On Books on May 20, 2011.) Few features of the political culture here in Canada are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and center but of...
View ArticleNew Book Explores the Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization for Native...
(Published at Left Eye On Books on September 27, 2011.) The best part of “Earth Into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism,” the second and final entry in Globalization Studies...
View ArticleEli Clare’s Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation — A...
(Published at Rabble.ca on March 29, 2012.) Exile and Pride (Classics Edition): Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (South End Press, 2009; $19.99) I often feel that describing the...
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