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2020 & later Publications

    2023

    1. Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2023
      A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
    2. Crokinole
      The mysterious origins and enduring popularity of Canada's favourite parlour game

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2023
    3. Rage Against the Noose
      How four Canadian journalists helped to kill capital punishment

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2023
      Focuses on four journalists who fought the death penalty: Betty Lee, Jacques Hebert, J.E. Belliveau, Isabel LeBourdais, and the cases they wrote about: Wilbert Coffin, Steven Truscott, Arthur Lucas, and Ronald Turpin.

    2022

    1. Di-Bayn-Di-Zi-Win: To Own Ourselves
      Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways

      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2022
      A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notion of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.
    2. A future for the past?
      Diemer, Ulli

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
    3. How are the Germans keeping warm?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
    4. PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
    5. Rest in Power, Frank
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
    6. The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
      How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.

    2021

    1. Afghanistan and the "experts"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
    2. The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
    3. Don't expect tech giants to build back better
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
    4. Dreams of Harmony
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Article in the April-May 2021 issue of Canada's History magazine on the Soinula utopian community founded on Malcolm Island in British Columbia around 1900.
    5. Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
    6. Jobs, Homes, and the Right to Exist
      Neighbourhood Activism in Deindustrializing Toronto and Montreal, 1963 - 1989

      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2021
    7. Mighty Moe book review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
    8. Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian public
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Historians express grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association's2021 Canada Day Statement.
    9. Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      The bottom linecknowledge, is that private ownership is associated with overcrowding, failure to invest in modernization, and more deaths. This certainly seems like an argument in favour of ending private ownership of long-term care facilities.
    10. A Runner's Journey
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2021

    2020

    1. Assam's excluded non-citizens
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    2. Cage of Gold
      The corrupt business of deportation

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      On the Bracero Program that perpetuated violence and exploitation against Mexican laborers, and argues for a reckoning with this history in US-Mexico relations.
    3. Copenhagen, cycle city
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    4. Elder Abuse
      Nursing homes, the coronovirus, and the bottom line

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Neglect of the elderly in nursing homes in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability of the US healthcare system (Medicaid) to support the elderly.
    5. Election Bias
      The new playbook for voter suppression

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      On the systemic/bureaucratic voter suppression of People of Color (POC) and working class communties in the United States.
    6. In the name of rose
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    7. Johl Whiteduck Ringuette interviewed by Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2020
    8. Miriam Garfinkle Lane
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
    9. Naomi Binder Wall Interview
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2020
      Three interviews with Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020.
    10. Nonconforming
      AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    11. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    12. Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
      Connexipedia article

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
    13. Vicious Cycles
      Theses on a philosophy of news

      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      On the transformation of news media content and consumption in conjunction with democracy and ideology
    14. Walmart's planned economy
      Resource Type: Unclassified
      First Published: 2020