Living the HyLife
How meat packers are fuelling migration to Manitoba towns
What do these changes mean for these once-stereotypical Prairie towns, and the growing populations of economic migrants who now call them home?
by Sheldon Birnie
Follow the yellowcake road
Nuclear power, tarsands extraction, and the co-option of the University of Saskatchewan
An alarming confluence of industry, government, and university interests has the U of S going nuclear.
by D’Arcy Hande
Awaiting justice
The ceaseless struggle of the Lubicon Cree
Despite years of lobbying against it, oil and gas development continues to devastate traditional Lubicon Cree territory.
by Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Land rush
Speculators stake claim to Prairie farmland
Amid global economic crisis, climate instability, and rising food prices, Saskatchewan has become a hot spot for farmland investment.
by André Magnan & Melanie Sommerville
Flooded and forgotten
Hydro development makes a battleground of northern Manitoba
Around much of northern Manitoba, “hydro” is a dirty word, and for good reason. These projects have reconfigured the landscape of the entire region, drying whole rivers and engorging lakes.
by Peter Kulchyski
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Meeting austerity with creativity
by Jane Kirby
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‘One of the girls’
by Maryam Adrangi
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Decolonizing together
by Harsha Walia
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Stepping up for future generations
by Don Kossick & Briarpatch Staff
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Canadian mining on trial
by Theresa McGee
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The next generation of land defenders
by Briarpatch Staff
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