Christian Nationalism and the Remaking of Canada’s Political Right
Faith and progressive politics are not inherently incompatible. But the rise of Christian nationalism is putting public policy at odds with religion.
Alexandra Ages
Alexandra Ages is an advocate against gender-based violence based in Edmonton, Alberta. She attended McGill’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, and is passionate about progressive social policy.
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Economic Liberation: A Gender-Based Case for Basic Income
Gender-based violence traps hundreds of thousands of Canadian women in dangerous situations and economic precarity. A Basic Income Guarantee could transform our response from crisis management to prevention.
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The Stories We Tell: How Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Can Perpetuate Harm
May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month, yet victims of sexual and gender-based violence still cannot find justice in their stories told by the Canadian media.
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The Digital Oligarchy: Surveillance, Tech Giants, and the Future of Human Rights
Canadians are right to be concerned about corporate control of data, algorithmically worsening inequality, and the role of tech companies in disempowering workers.
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Why all Canadians Need Decommodified Reproductive Healthcare
In Canada, reproductive healthcare is deeply commodified, affecting access to resources from contraception to fertility treatments. Canadians tend to pride themselves on being “better” than their southern neighbours, but in this instance, being better is not good enough.
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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Femininity, Hyper-Commodified: Consumerism, Social Media, and Beauty Standards
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
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Trad-Wives and Hustle-Bros: Contemporary Rejections of Late-Stage Capitalism
The “trad-wife” and “hustle-bro” subcultures are a phenomena of the social media age, and a symptom of late-stage capitalism.
