Toward a Practice of Collectivity
Toward a Practice of Collectivity By El Jones The following essay appears in Abolitionist Intimacies, and is reprinted with the permission of Fernwood Publishing. It is the summer of 2020, …
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Q&A with 2022 New Voices Award Winner Fareh Malik
Fareh Malik is a spoken word poet from Hamilton, Ontario and the winner of the 2022 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. His new book Streams that Lead Somewhere is available from Mawenzi Press. In its citation the New Voices Award jury praised Malik’s “tenderness and throat-grabbing use of imagery” and his “wide range of voices and tones to convey a nuanced spectrum of emotions and a laser sharp critique of Canada’s blatant and covert systemic racism.”
Seeking Justice for Dawit Isaak
Dawit Isaak and his colleagues are the longest detained journalists in the world today. September 23, 2022 will mark 21 years of detention. Their cases and causes are not only heartbreaking and egregiously unjust, but emblematic of the global assault on media freedom by authoritarian regimes, which continues to intensify under the cover of a global pandemic of impunity.
Q&A with Amber Bracken, Canadian photojournalist and 2022 Ken Filkow Prize winner
Amber Bracken is a Canadian photojournalist who has reported extensively on the impacts of colonization, often affecting Indigenous peoples in North America. PEN Canada awarded her the 2022 Ken Filkow Prize for her courageous coverage of the 2021 coastal pipeline protests on Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation territory in British Columbia. Bracken has also won the Contemporary Issues category of the 2017 World Press Photo awards and in 2022 won the overall World Press Photo of the Year.
Q&A with Chris Tenove on Toxic Disinformation
A Q&A with researcher Chris Tenove about the Global Reporting Centre’s study of online disinformation.
Q&A with Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz, 2021 recipient of Humber College Scholarship
Arzu Yildiz is a Turkish journalist who has covered high profile murder cases and the illegal arms trade to Syria. She has worked as an editor and senior reporter in …
Q&A with 2021 New Voices Winner Deepa Rajagopalan
Deepa Rajagopalan is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, and is a graduate of the Creative Writing program from the University of Toronto. She is …
Q&A with Amy Lai, winner of the 2021 Ken Filkow Prize
Amy Lai is a lawyer and author of “The Right to Parody” (Cambridge University Press) and an upcoming book on free speech and higher education (under contract with University of Michigan Press). She is the winner of PEN Canada’s Ken Filkow Prize for freedom of expression.
The gratitude gap: What does Canada owe refugees, and what do they owe us?
The gratitude gap: What does Canada owe refugees, and what do they owe us?
Daniel Ortega and the Crushing of the Nicaraguan Dream
Nicaraguans now find ourselves with no recourse, no law, no police to protect us. Habeas corpus has been replaced by a law that allows the state to imprison people who are under investigation for up to 90 days. Who will they come for next?