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I can’t with This noise: Islamophobia and Anti-Palestinian Racism in Unions
Last week, Charlottetown MP Sean Casey voted in favour of an NDP motion to stop arms sales to Israel. In response, the Liberal Party demoted him. He lost his role as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs. But he kept his seat in Parliament. He kept his $217,700 salary. He lost a $20,900… Read more
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The Rot in Academia: On Jason Arday and the Crises We Refuse to Name
Reflections from a Canadian Context I have been sitting with the news of Jason Arday’s death, and I cannot shake the feeling that we are all complicit. Not in the sense of direct responsibility, but in the way we have normalized a system that consumes its own, especially when those consumed are Black, Brown, Indigenous,… Read more
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The Postal Code of Violence: How Safety is Defined by Whiteness
We often talk about safety as a universal human right, a baseline expectation for a dignified life. But if we’re honest with ourselves, we have to acknowledge that safety is not a universal experience. It is a privilege, meticulously guarded and unevenly distributed along the lines of race, geography, and power. I was recently watching… Read more
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What I learned from the last 5000 Years
I just finished reading India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent by Audrey Truschke. The blurb on the page describes it as follows: Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas… Read more
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Treaty Day 2025
What non-Indigenous folks need to know Today, October 1st, is Treaty Day. As a child of Muslim immigrants from the Global South, I live, work, and play on Epek’wtik, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples. We are governed by the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1725. I recognize my duty to honour… Read more
