Briarpatch - May/June 2018

In this issue

Could Saskatchewan resurrect the idea of a Crown-owned oil company to tackle the twin crises of climate change and ongoing colonialism? Surviving the Sixties Scoop on the Prairies. Remembering the 1919 Drumheller strike. A new form of legal intimidation of Winnipeg land defenders. The radical history and victories of the National Farmers Union, two book reviews, and more.

Remembering The Drumheller Strike

“Hell’s Hole,” “the Devil’s Row,” and “the Western Front” – these were the nicknames for the coal mines of the Drumheller valley. In 1919, around 6,500 Drumheller coal miners walked off the job after voting to join the radical and militant One Big Union. Nearly a hundred years later, the 1919 Drumheller strike remains one of the most famous examples of workers’ power on the Prairies.

9 mins

Colonial Courts & Settler Justice

Colten Boushie, Haven Dubois, and the two-tiered justice system

9 mins

Uprooted

Through the '60s, '70s, and '80s, the Canadian government took thousands of First Nations children from their families and placed them in white foster homes. I was one of them. Alienated from my language, culture, and community, I was taught to hate my people.Decades later, I am still learning to heal.

7 mins

Fighting For Space

How A Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction

4 mins

Oil's Deep State

How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming – in Alberta, and in Ottawa.

3 mins

Tori Ball

Tori Ball moved to Vancouver a year and a half ago from Kjipuktuk/ Halifax.

1 min

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Briarpatch Magazine Description:

Briarpatch is an award-winning magazine of politics and culture. Fiercely independent and proudly polemical, Briarpatch offers original reporting, insight, and analysis from a grassroots perspective. As a reader-supported publication, Briarpatch is not just devoted to reporting on social movements — it’s committed to building them.