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February 24, 2026 
Past Lives: A show about what it means to be free
The show starts with something a lot of us can relate to: back pain. The back belongs to a woman named Nanaya, who was kidnapped…
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January 20, 2026
Review: Rogers v. Rogers
Rogers v. Rogers is a play about oligarchs and oligopolies. In its sold out world premier run at Crow’s Theatre in Toronto (and soon coming…
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December 29, 2025
2025 in radical arts: A Spring roundup
2025 has been a devastating year in many ways. From the emboldening of the far-right, Trump’s tariffs plunging the global economy into crisis, the threat…
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December 19, 2025
What Bugonia gets wrong about the human species
Contains spoilers (as it should). Yorgos Lanthimos is among the latest string of Hollywood auteurs—Paul Thomas Anderson, Ari Aster, to name a few—who are waking…
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December 8, 2025
On the front lines of austerity: Union and University shows how workers fought back at Queen’s
When I sat down to watch Union and University at the Canadian Labour International Film Festival this year in Toronto, I expected a documentary about…
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November 21, 2025
Striking for Palestine: The future of resistance in labour struggles in America
No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Jeff Schuhrke (2025) In 1973 the United Auto Workers (UAW) purchased over $300,000…
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November 6, 2025
Review: Sadiqa de Meijer’s “In the Field”
One essay in Sadiqa de Meijer’s superb new collection In the Field refers to Agnes Varda’s film The Gleaners and I. “To glean from farms…
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August 9, 2025
Prisoners’ Justice Day at 50: A reading list
The following are locations for selected Prisoners’ Justice Day events happening in Ontario on Sunday, August 10th: Toronto: Grange Park at 1:00 pm ETKingston: Grounds…
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July 30, 2025
Transforming the union movement from the ground-up
We are the Union: How Worker-to-worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University Of California Press, 2025) Eric Blanc’s We are…
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July 29, 2025
Crackdown: A revolutionary testament from the frontlines of the drug war
Crackdown: Surviving and Resisting the War on Drugs by Garth Mullins (Doubleday Canada, 2025) In a political moment when right-wing forces mobilize to dismantle even the…
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July 17, 2025
Red Flags: A necessary reckoning with “Actually Existing Socialism” (AES)
With rising global inequality, climate crisis, and the resurgence of authoritarian movements worldwide, many are questioning whether there is truly a viable alternative to capitalism….
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July 3, 2025
A review of James Cairns’ “In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times”
James Cairns’ collection of essays begins by examining the questions one would expect from an academic book on “crisis”: What is a crisis? Who defines…