by Erin Morton

The romance of a white woman’s settler childhood seems innocuous enough when sung in a Taylor Swift lyric. After all, who could fault her for a memory of swinging in the trees over a creek at age seven, “too scared to jump in”? “Please picture me in the trees // with Pennsylvania under me,” sings Swift, as she laments lost loves and childhood friendships of rural U.S. America.

by Anne Pasek

Edmonton is the industrial and policy base for much of the oil sands development in the north of the province—spectacularized through the tar sands campaign, and now the subject of bitter political and cultural divides within the province.

by Mél Hogan

There are six rulers of the global consumer technology industry: Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Google. Together, these companies – known as the “Silicon Six” or, simply, “Big Tech” – have come to dominate our global social infrastructure, from operating systems, social media, web searches, and advertising, to the cloud infrastructures from which they operate.