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Lori Lee Oates

Lori Lee Oates is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University. Her research interests include the political economy of Newfoundland and Labrador, climate change, and colonial theory. Lori Lee is also the project lead for the SSHRC funded project “Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador.”

Lori Lee's Latest Articles

N.L. long-term care needs more nurses, who need more time with residents

Only the NDP and PCs are committed to improving nurse-to-patient ratios

Revolving Door: The problematic relationship between politics and business in N.L.

The merchants are very much still here, and they’re making terrible decisions for the rest of us

We’re heading toward another Churchill Falls disaster, and we’ve been warned

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are being bombarded with contradictory messaging around MOU with Québec; but the latest person to speak out was an insider tasked with independent oversight

It’s time for a reckoning on public university education in our province

Successive Liberal governments have presided over the destruction of Memorial University

Right wing populism in Canada is not to be underestimated

With Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary mimicking some of Donald Trump’s campaign tactics, nothing should be taken for granted.