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As forest fires ravage Ontario, displacing several First Nations, Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to invest in pipeline projects in Alberta, signs more military contracts, and makes cuts to Natural Resources Canada.

In addition to Indigenous co

🚨 We are relaunching our website.

Our website is currently under maintenance. Our web developer is working to get everything back up and running but it will be a couple of months before our website is fully restored.

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Our 2025 Writing in the Margins Hometown Entry winner.

Carla Harris’ poem, “The Windsor-Essex Lakes are the Victim of This Party” talks about harmful algal bloom as a consequence of climate change compounded by the inaction of the

Brit Sippola’s piece “Dog on the Roof” tackles longing, loss, and the complexity of loving a family member navigating their mental health.

✍️The honourable mention in the Creative non-fiction category as part of our 2025 Writing in

This July, Briarpatch is launching a special issue on housing justice. This issue is a massive undertaking for us, involving more work to outreach, research, edit, fact-check, and proofread.

That’s why we need your help. In April, we launched

Every year, Briarpatch publishes an issue devoted to reporting stories about the labour movement in Canada.

This year, we are looking for articles, investigative reporting, historical analysis, photo essays, timelines, personal essays, reviews, pro

Christina Hajjar’s photo essay “In the Valley of Memory” on the importance of land and the collective struggle for liberation and justice against Zionist occupation and government neglect.

“I use photography in other parts o

anaum sajanlal's poem "he shares my brother’s name."

✍️ Honourable mention in the Poetry category of our 2025 Writing in the Margins contest.

Art by Saiyare Refaei w/@justseeds.

Read the complete piece at the link in our bio.

We are excited to share that Madeline Berger’s piece “How to build a mobile free store” has been nominated for a National Magazine Award as a finalist for One-of-a-Kind Storytelling.

BIG Congratulations to @fungalmatters for their

Organizing can be empowering but it isn’t always easy to be involved in collective spaces, especially when working multiple jobs or balancing family responsibilities.

@rushmew offers ways to balance collective action while tending to other pa

The use of NDAs and reliance on precarious work enable sexual violence and rape culture.

As Connor Lea Spencer writes, “Both uphold an important pillar of academic culture that enables sexual violence to proliferate on campuses across the coun

The alienation and isolation of workers is a key function of capitalism. But, the South Island Workers’ Cultural and Education League are working to combat this.

As Brett Nelson writes, the League is building a solidarity beyond the workplace,

Our 2025 Writing in the Margins creative non-fiction winner, rielle castro writes about the beauty of the community and collective in an individualistic unequal world.

“There’s a kind of love in that waiting. The kind that doesn’t

ivan beck’s photo essay beautifully documents the authenticity of claiming your body for yourself while navigating hostile and isolating medical systems.

“Medical intervention declares it has solved my dysphoria. If only they could solve

Our 2025 Writing in the Margins poetry winner, @cass.myers.poetry writes viscerally about living with chronic pain, in a piece that poetry judge @smokiisumac described as having him “both inside and outside.”

Art by @cass.myers.poetry. R

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