Canada's Environmental Voice
This article is part of A\J’s web series Night School. In celebration of back-to-school time and our Night issue, the A\J web team brought you a series of quick lessons, posted between September 16 to October 11, 2013, covering everything from activism tactics and canning tips to how factory farms breed disease.
“What hath night to do with sleep?” proclaimed John Milton in Paradise Lost. Environmental activists, I think, would agree that sleep has very little to do with it because night is not a time for rest but for action. It provides a cloak of invisibility under which they can enact […]
This article is part of A\J’s web series Night School.
Jennifer has recently completed her Master of Arts in Communication and Social Justice, and previously her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Communication Studies, both at the University of Windsor. She resides in Toronto, Ontario and spends her free time pursuing her craft of acting and producing for TV and film.
Driven by curiosity, artist and filmmaker Shinpei Takeda travelled with a friend along the west coast of Canada, the US and Mexico to visit immigrant survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and document their gripping, lingering stories of pain, suffering and loss. His documentary begins with a stark […]
Canada has had its share of massive, global-scale industrial development, including the Alberta oil sands and the James Bay Hydroelectric Project. The construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958 was one of the biggest industrial projects of its time. The US$470-million project, meant to open the Great Lakes to […]
A celebration of cooperative action in the face of corporate power and control, Growing Resistance is a must-read for academics engaged in the debate over genetically modified (GM) crops in Canada. Emily Eaton, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Regina, provides a detailed account of the successful resistance […]
Wesley Tourangeau is a PhD candidate in Social and Ecological Sustainability at uWaterloo. His areas of interest include Canadian agriculture, genetically modified foods, food policy and green criminology.
Nate Prier is a PhD candidate in Geography at York University. He researches and organizes with decolonization and migrant justice movements in Europe and on Turtle Island.
