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📢 Our labour issue is out now and ready to order!
Featuring: pushing against harmful drug policy, rural unionism, garment worker wins, a reading list, and more
Cover art by Amanda Priebe
Featuring: pushing against harmful drug policy, rural unionism, garment worker wins, a reading list, and more
Cover art by Amanda Priebe
November/December 2025: The labour issue
Workplace drug policy is hurting workers and unions can do more. Plus: lessons from a harm reduction union, solidarity with incarcerated workers, sewing solidarity in Winnipeg, rural unionism, and more. Cover art by Amanda Priebe.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
📢 Our labour issue is out now and ready to order!
Featuring: pushing against harmful drug policy, rural unionism, garment worker wins, a reading list, and more
Cover art by Amanda Priebe
Featuring: pushing against harmful drug policy, rural unionism, garment worker wins, a reading list, and more
Cover art by Amanda Priebe
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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We are SUPER EXCITED to welcome IndigiNews to the UNRIGGED journalism community joining @independentnl.bsky.social @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @pivot.quebec + 27 other independent publishers across the (so-called) country!
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Our AGM is coming up on Monday October 20!
4:30 p.m. PST/5:30 p.m. CST/MDT and 7:30p.m. EST
Come find out what we've been up to and/or put yourself up for a position on our board! Registration is required to receive the link for the meeting. briarpatchmagazine.com/agm Hope to see you soon!
4:30 p.m. PST/5:30 p.m. CST/MDT and 7:30p.m. EST
Come find out what we've been up to and/or put yourself up for a position on our board! Registration is required to receive the link for the meeting. briarpatchmagazine.com/agm Hope to see you soon!
Briarpatch’s Annual General Meeting
Interested in being on the Briarpatch board of directors, or peeking behind the scenes of our beloved magazine? Come to Briarpatch’s Annual General Meeting!
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October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our AGM is coming up on Monday October 20!
4:30 p.m. PST/5:30 p.m. CST/MDT and 7:30p.m. EST
Come find out what we've been up to and/or put yourself up for a position on our board! Registration is required to receive the link for the meeting. briarpatchmagazine.com/agm Hope to see you soon!
4:30 p.m. PST/5:30 p.m. CST/MDT and 7:30p.m. EST
Come find out what we've been up to and/or put yourself up for a position on our board! Registration is required to receive the link for the meeting. briarpatchmagazine.com/agm Hope to see you soon!
Writing in the Margins is back! Submit your creative non-fiction, poetry, and photography that on social and environmental justice for a chance to win $500 and publication in Briarpatch.
Contest ends November 28th 2025. Learn more about the contest here: briarpatchmagazine.c...
Contest ends November 28th 2025. Learn more about the contest here: briarpatchmagazine.c...
October 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Writing in the Margins is back! Submit your creative non-fiction, poetry, and photography that on social and environmental justice for a chance to win $500 and publication in Briarpatch.
Contest ends November 28th 2025. Learn more about the contest here: briarpatchmagazine.c...
Contest ends November 28th 2025. Learn more about the contest here: briarpatchmagazine.c...
📢 Our September/October issue is out!
Featuring: the psychological toll of war reporting in Gaza. Plus: university interference in Nova Scotia, degrowth debate, and more.
🎨 cover illustration by Ibrahim Abusitta
Link below to order your copy!
Featuring: the psychological toll of war reporting in Gaza. Plus: university interference in Nova Scotia, degrowth debate, and more.
🎨 cover illustration by Ibrahim Abusitta
Link below to order your copy!
September/October 2025: “We are not made of steel”
Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📢 Our September/October issue is out!
Featuring: the psychological toll of war reporting in Gaza. Plus: university interference in Nova Scotia, degrowth debate, and more.
🎨 cover illustration by Ibrahim Abusitta
Link below to order your copy!
Featuring: the psychological toll of war reporting in Gaza. Plus: university interference in Nova Scotia, degrowth debate, and more.
🎨 cover illustration by Ibrahim Abusitta
Link below to order your copy!
In our Jul/Aug 2025 cover story, Aliya Pabani and Jody Chan reflect on the lessons they've learned through organizing with No Arms in the Arts for over a year and the importance of continuing to organize within the cultural sector for a free Palestine.
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Lessons from the cultural front
No Arms in the Arts organizers look back on over a year of confronting cultural institutions complicit in Palestinian genocide
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August 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In our Jul/Aug 2025 cover story, Aliya Pabani and Jody Chan reflect on the lessons they've learned through organizing with No Arms in the Arts for over a year and the importance of continuing to organize within the cultural sector for a free Palestine.
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Zohran Mamdani is promising to bring public grocery stores to New York City. To combat the grocery oligopoly in Canada, @nolore.bsky.social contends, we need the same.
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Food too expensive? It’s time for public grocery stores
City-run stores could be an affordable alternative to large, corporate grocery chains
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August 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Zohran Mamdani is promising to bring public grocery stores to New York City. To combat the grocery oligopoly in Canada, @nolore.bsky.social contends, we need the same.
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At this stage in Israel's genocide of Palestinians, Anna Lippman questions the need to lend legitimacy to Palestinian resistance on the basis of anti-Zionist Jewish identity.
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No two sides to genocide – Briarpatch Magazine
As Israel’s genocide of Palestine continues, is it necessary to legitimize Palestinian resistance from a place of anti-Zionist Jewish identity?
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August 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
At this stage in Israel's genocide of Palestinians, Anna Lippman questions the need to lend legitimacy to Palestinian resistance on the basis of anti-Zionist Jewish identity.
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I have an article in this issue of Briarpatch arguing for public grocery stores.
I wrote it months ago, back before I had even heard of Zohran Mamdani, but I did try to get an interview with him for the piece!
I wrote it months ago, back before I had even heard of Zohran Mamdani, but I did try to get an interview with him for the piece!
📢 Our July/August issue is out now!
Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
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Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
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July/August 2025: Lessons from the cultural front
Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.
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July 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I have an article in this issue of Briarpatch arguing for public grocery stores.
I wrote it months ago, back before I had even heard of Zohran Mamdani, but I did try to get an interview with him for the piece!
I wrote it months ago, back before I had even heard of Zohran Mamdani, but I did try to get an interview with him for the piece!
Farmers in Wilmot Township are facing land expropriation and no one is willing to tell them why. Ally Krueger-Kischak writes about their fight and the intricacies of rural agricultural expropriation.
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Fighting for prime farmland in Wilmot
Wilmot Township’s farmers are resisting land expropriation and corporate power
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July 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Farmers in Wilmot Township are facing land expropriation and no one is willing to tell them why. Ally Krueger-Kischak writes about their fight and the intricacies of rural agricultural expropriation.
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Jenan Afaneh's photo essay consolidates the relationship between people, memory, and place, resisting the erasure of Ein Samiya.
This piece was the honourable mention for the photography category (judged by Annie Sakkab) of our 2024 WITM contest.
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This piece was the honourable mention for the photography category (judged by Annie Sakkab) of our 2024 WITM contest.
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No longer exists, Ein Samiya (2021)
Writing in the Margins 2024 poetry honourable mention
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July 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Jenan Afaneh's photo essay consolidates the relationship between people, memory, and place, resisting the erasure of Ein Samiya.
This piece was the honourable mention for the photography category (judged by Annie Sakkab) of our 2024 WITM contest.
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This piece was the honourable mention for the photography category (judged by Annie Sakkab) of our 2024 WITM contest.
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Ambihai Akilan explores the politics of mourning, the precarity of state legitimization, and the need for settler solidarity with Indigenous communities.
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To remember is to look around
Tamil-Canadian settlerhood and the politics of remembrance – When our grief is framed as proof of the West’s benevolence, we must ask: what does it mean to derive our legitimacy from the very systems that displaced us?
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July 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ambihai Akilan explores the politics of mourning, the precarity of state legitimization, and the need for settler solidarity with Indigenous communities.
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📢 Our July/August issue is out now!
Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
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Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
briarpatchmagazine.c...
July/August 2025: Lessons from the cultural front
Since 1973, Briarpatch has been serving up regular doses of news and analysis from its home in Regina, Saskatchewan. Believing that a truly free press is essential to the creation of a truly democratic society, Briarpatch provides a thoughtful, principled, and irreverent alternative to the false consensus of the corporate media.
briarpatchmagazine.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📢 Our July/August issue is out now!
Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
briarpatchmagazine.c...
Featuring reflections from No Arms in the Arts campaign, a case for public grocers, rethinking free trade and more.
🎨 cover design by Gudrun Wai-Gunnarsson; photos by Yuula Benivolski
Link below to order your copy!
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Last day to submit your pitches!
📢 Briarpatch is now accepting pitches for our annual Labour Issue. Find a list of suggested pitches (non-exhaustive), guidelines on how to pitch us, and more details at the link below! Pitch deadline is July 7, 2025.
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Call for pitches: 2025 Labour Issue
Every year, for our November/December issue, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement. This year, we’re looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, profiles, recommendations, lists, humour, comics, and art for the issue.
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July 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Last day to submit your pitches!
If you're in Ottawa this weekend, come find us at the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair!
June 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
If you're in Ottawa this weekend, come find us at the Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair!
Madeline Berger has been involved with Distro Disco since 2021. They put together a practical guide to neighbourhood redistribution for others who want to start a distro in their community.
Read it here:
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How to build a mobile free store
A guide to neighbourhood redistribution
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June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Madeline Berger has been involved with Distro Disco since 2021. They put together a practical guide to neighbourhood redistribution for others who want to start a distro in their community.
Read it here:
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Read it here:
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📢 Briarpatch is now accepting pitches for our annual Labour Issue. Find a list of suggested pitches (non-exhaustive), guidelines on how to pitch us, and more details at the link below! Pitch deadline is July 7, 2025.
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Call for pitches: 2025 Labour Issue
Every year, for our November/December issue, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement. This year, we’re looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, profiles, recommendations, lists, humour, comics, and art for the issue.
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June 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
📢 Briarpatch is now accepting pitches for our annual Labour Issue. Find a list of suggested pitches (non-exhaustive), guidelines on how to pitch us, and more details at the link below! Pitch deadline is July 7, 2025.
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As we see the rise in fascism globally, @harshawalia.bsky.social 's reading list helps us make sense of how fascism operates as a consistent feature of capitalist liberal nation-states.
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Understanding fascism: a reading list
A reading list on understanding fascism as a key feature of capitalist liberal nation-states
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June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As we see the rise in fascism globally, @harshawalia.bsky.social 's reading list helps us make sense of how fascism operates as a consistent feature of capitalist liberal nation-states.
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Catch us in Calgary this weekend!
Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary!
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In response to tariff threats by the U.S., there has been a resurgence of Canadian nationalism. However, Jasmine Veark writes, this renewed nationalism gives cover to punitive im/migration and drug policies.
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Nationalism will not save us
In response to tariff threats by the U.S., the resurgence of Canadian nationalism gives cover for punitive im/migration and drug policies
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June 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In response to tariff threats by the U.S., there has been a resurgence of Canadian nationalism. However, Jasmine Veark writes, this renewed nationalism gives cover to punitive im/migration and drug policies.
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Savannah Kosteniuk honours the ways in which the Hampton Hub (2022-2025) drew on Black anti-fascist traditions and cultivated coalitional networks of care, modelling an ethics of abundance on the Prairies.
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Becoming boundless: The Hampton Hub and the legacy of Black Prairie resistance
Drawing on Black anti-fascist traditions and cultivating coalitional networks of care, the Hampton Hub modelled an ethics of abundance on the Prairies
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June 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Savannah Kosteniuk honours the ways in which the Hampton Hub (2022-2025) drew on Black anti-fascist traditions and cultivated coalitional networks of care, modelling an ethics of abundance on the Prairies.
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Toronto Palestinian Families and Toronto Jewish Families are trying to combat anti-Palestinian racism from the Toronto District School Board, Marlee Wasser writes.
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Co-Resisting Anti-Palestinian Racism in Toronto Schools
Jewish and Palestinian families are combatting polarizing policies together
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May 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Toronto Palestinian Families and Toronto Jewish Families are trying to combat anti-Palestinian racism from the Toronto District School Board, Marlee Wasser writes.
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"For Palestinians, Zionism cannot be leftward or rightward. Zionism means we die."
From the author who wrote an exceptional piece on contextualizing Palestinian resistance for our Sept/Oct 2024 issue, this piece breaks down the fallibility of empire.
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From the author who wrote an exceptional piece on contextualizing Palestinian resistance for our Sept/Oct 2024 issue, this piece breaks down the fallibility of empire.
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Understanding Zionism’s fissures
Internal implosions within the Zionist state are leading to its fractures
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May 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"For Palestinians, Zionism cannot be leftward or rightward. Zionism means we die."
From the author who wrote an exceptional piece on contextualizing Palestinian resistance for our Sept/Oct 2024 issue, this piece breaks down the fallibility of empire.
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From the author who wrote an exceptional piece on contextualizing Palestinian resistance for our Sept/Oct 2024 issue, this piece breaks down the fallibility of empire.
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Longtime Briarpatch contributor David Camfield has published a sharp anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian examination of the history of actually existing socialist societies through Fernwood Publishing.
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The ‘Communist’ world is not communist and the ‘Free’ world is not free
An excerpt adapted from chapter one of Red Flags: A Reckoning With Communism for the Future of the Left
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May 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Longtime Briarpatch contributor David Camfield has published a sharp anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian examination of the history of actually existing socialist societies through Fernwood Publishing.
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@celeste.lgbt and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social reckon with journalism's role in trans genocides past and present.
Art by Cee Lavery.
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Writing our community’s wrongs
Reckoning with journalism’s role and responsibility in trans genocides past and present
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May 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@celeste.lgbt and @shewhoserenades.bsky.social reckon with journalism's role in trans genocides past and present.
Art by Cee Lavery.
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Art by Cee Lavery.
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