I’ve been thinking, this week, about how we, as Canadians, should be doing whatever we can to support grassroots struggles in the US. Contrary to what you might think based on the tide of popular sentiment at the moment, the bad things that ordinary people in so-called Canada are facing are, first and foremost, brought …
Month: March 2025
This week, I’ve been thinking about Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction by Maia Szalavitz, published by Hachette Go in 2021. It’s a history of the harm reduction movement. The author is herself a former injection drug user and she’s been covering harm reduction and related issues as …
As a federal election looms here in Canada, I have been thinking lately about how voting for liberals – small ‘l’ or large – is never going to save us. Mainstream political life in lots of countries in the 21st century takes the shape of an electoral choice between the hard right or the far …
(Originally published at The Media Co-op.) Florence Stratton has been involved in social justice struggles since the 1960s. She lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, and in the last decade, her work has been particularly focused on efforts to end homelessness. She is also active with many different groups focused on peace, ending poverty, public transit, Palestine …