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December 18, 2020

Beyond COVID

Thinking Outside the Crisis: A Great Big Bag of Hammers
The events triggered by Covid-19 are diagnostic of fragile social arrangements that we have lacked the ability to discuss for decades.
June 7, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Out of What Exists
It's not too late for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to write a new, original story—our story, our future—from the ruins of the present moment.
June 4, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Throwing Off Our (Food) Chains
The supply chain is not a series of equal links dependent on the ‘weakest link’ to operate. Rather, the middle is a choke point over…
June 3, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Housing as Healthcare in the North
Housing is more than a matter of shelter—housing is healthcare. It's time for a northern housing strategy that recognizes this critical connection.
May 29, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Inequity and Triage
Far from being a "great equalizer," Covid-19 is exposing the deeper inequities in our healthcare systems and the populations they serve.
May 11, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Where We Go & How We Get There
Hard though it is, we have to shift our economies away from fossil fuels. We are perilously near collapse.
April 30, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: A Tutorial Level in Apocalypse(s)
If the pandemic has done anything, it has forced us to think about how societies face a crisis of collapse. We need to escape the…
April 24, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: The Pandemic & Social Unrest
Even before the pandemic, we were living in a revolutionary age. Now, long-standing injustices and inequalities are amplified by COVID-19.
April 23, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Imagining Communities Through Data
The way digital information is mobilized during this pandemic highlights the politics of data—even if we often couldn’t see the data itself.
April 22, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Decarbonized or Destitute?
We can *heart* oil and gas all we want—it doesn’t *heart* us back.
April 17, 2020
Thinking Outside the Crisis: Introducing a New Series
This column introduces a series of commentaries that create space for positive futures by thinking against the grain of the pandemic.
Robin Whitaker
April 17, 2020