The Hands that Feed, Part 1: Faces of the Grocery Frontlines
Despite the fanfare for their service, food retail employees themselves are not convinced they're 'recognized' in ways that actually improve their lives. Keep Reading
In Newfoundland and Labrador, Black Lives Matter
“We just started last week. I feel like this is the beginning of something.” Keep Reading
Notes From the Rafters: 8 June 2020
Come for the updates on garage-top hotels and greenlighting deck roofs in a heritage zone. Stay for the rare photo documentation of Cllr Wally Collins. Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
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 the food supply. Keep Reading
My Skin Colour is Not a Threat
It’s easy for white people to deny that racism exists in Newfoundland & Labrador. Black people in this province can’t afford to think like that. Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
Notes From the Rafters: Pandora’s Big Yellow Box
Get your most outraged social media warrior face on: you have TWO WEEKS to ALL CAPS your way into Council inboxes to explain why you are pro or con the BYB. Keep Reading
Why NL Fishers are Protesting in a Pandemic: An Explainer
The fight over the 2020 fishing season has exposed many deeply rooted problems in a crucial but troubled industry in Newfoundland and Labrador. Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
How We’re Leading a Climate Justice Movement in NL
As we organize and educate, we must also stand with those who are putting their bodies on the line to struggle against colonialism and capitalism. Keep Reading
Indy Inks (30 April 2020)
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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. Keep Reading
Notes From the Rafters: 27 April 2020
Getting as much grinding done as possible before patching turns out to be the most financially efficient—unless referring to household strut-fixing budgets. Keep Reading
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 Holocene delusion. Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
Report: FLR Complied with Disclosure Rules in Salmon Die-off
A mass die-off of salmon in fish pens on the south coast of Newfoundland made waves in news headlines last October. But yesterday, a report into public disclosure of information by the Department of Fisheries and Land Resources released by the province’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner clearing the Department of any wrong-doing, scarcely created a ripple. Gerry Byrne, the Minister of Fisheries and Land Resources summarized the report’s main finding yesterday in a series of tweets. “Appreciate having an Independent Officer of the Legislature confirm no basis for mandatory disclosure due to no evidence of health or environmental risk,” the Minister posted. He added: “In my own history as a parliamentarian, I have never experienced an oversight Office conclude an investigation by saying ‘no recommendations’ to offer or required as the situation was well handled.” Commissioner Michael Harvey’s report concludes “I do not have any recommendations to make… Keep Reading
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. Keep Reading
In memory of James G. Learning (1938-2020)
Labrador flags are flying at half-mast all across the Big Land to mark the passing of Jim Learning, which is only right for a man who did so much to have those flags flying high in the first place. To the people of Labrador, Jim was something like a folk hero. To the people of Newfoundland, he was an enigma, calling for the independence of a territory that few imagined could be other than an appendage of the island. To the province’s politicians, he was a subversive, a source of constant irritation, a man of the people calling out injustice with a crystal-clear voice and putting them to shame. To the province’s activists and progressives, he had a stature and “cred” that few can aspire to. It was as an activist I first knew Jim. He played no small part in activating me. In 2011 and 2012, as the Muskrat… Keep Reading