Verónica and Oscar Velasco live in a basement apartment in Dartmouth, off a street named after a flower. Like many couples in the HRM, their apartment is littered with toys and books and other remnants of young children. Unlike other couples, however, they may face deportation from Canada. Verónica and Oscar fled Mexico as refugees […]
Angela Day
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Joya and freedom
Six years after Canadian troops were deployed to Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, a former Afghan parliamentarian, speaks from the belly of the so-called beast. Twenty-nine year old Joya, who was born in Afghanistan but grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan, is a women’s rights activist and former member of the Afghan parliament, the […]
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Corporate U
New students flock to the East Coast every September with shiny shoes and rosy outlooks—and then congregate every February with blue placards and empty pockets to demand tuition reductions. Despite increased corporate sponsorship in universities, tuition fees have continued to climb, and student debt is up 126 percent from 10 years ago. Tuition fees are […]
Posted inArts + Music
Digging deeper
We don’t usually see the consequences of Canadian mining companies operating abroad—especially not in intimate portraits. Marlón García Arriaga, a multimedia artist from Guatemala, shares the story of the small Guatemalan town of Panzós, the Q’eqchi’ people and Inco, a large Canadian mining corporation, through his poignant exhibit, Panzós: 25 Years Later, opening July 12 […]