Christina Turner

Christina Turner grew up in Toronto and spent five years in Halifax, where she earned a BA from the University of King's College. She then picked up and moved to the opposite side of the continent, completing her MA in English at the University of British Columbia in September 2013. She likes to talk about postcolonial literatures, the politics of food and #alt-ac, and gets riled up by cultural appropriation and crotchety columnists who complain about millenials. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and their rabbit, Fred.

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Erin Wunker's debut book a powerful account of feminism in 2016

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

by Erin Wunker

(BookThug,

2016;

23.00)

Today is December 6, the 27th anniversary of the Polytechnique Massacre.

In Notes from a Feminist Killjoy, her new book of essays on moving through the world in a gendered body, Erin Wunker expands on Nicole Brossard's idea that the Massacre was not committed by a "lone wolf." The Massacre -- and its remembrance -- is not just about "M.L. alone, with his anger and his gun," Wunker writes. "This is about the history of misogyny." December 6 is about the particularities of that day -- the murder of 14 women whose names we recite every year -- but it also fits into a much wider, and deeply ingrained, spectrum of violence.

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'The Slow Professor' serves up good advice, but misses the mark on institutional change

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy

by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber

(University of Toronto Press,

2016;

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'We want to be believed': Survivors and allies speak out after Ghomeshi verdict

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On Thursday night in Toronto, allies and survivors gathered on the steps of Old City Hall to support victims of sexual violence.

The rally and march was organized by several Toronto-based groups, including the Centre for Women and Trans People at Ryerson University, the Canadian Federation of Students and Interval House, in response to the verdict in the Jian Ghomeshi trial delivered Thursday morning.

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Here's how you can help your church educate about its role in residential schools

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This holiday season rabble has partnered with Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto to launch a campaign urging Canadians to take up implementing the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation commission as a new year's resolution for 2016. Here's how.

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What does it mean to be a Toronto treaty person?

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Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) delivered its findings in Ottawa last month, the concept of reconciliation is everywhere in the Canadian media. But what does reconciliation mean for Canadian settlers?

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Media: Get the story straight on U of T strike

Since members of CUPE 3902 went on strike last Friday, there has been very little coverage in the mainstream media that accurately conveys the demands of the striking workers.

CUPE 3902 represents 6,000 teaching assistants (TAs) and graduate course instructors at the University of Toronto. I am a Teaching Assistant in the University's English Department and thus a member of 3902. I don't speak for the Union or for all those who are on strike right now. But I do hope to clarify some of the basic issues as I understand them, and as they have been poorly represented across major news outlets.

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'El Niño' draws attention to the issues of migrant labour

El Niño

by Nadia Bozak

(House of Anansi,

2014;

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Nadia Bozak's El Niño begins how it ends: with portents of death under a blazing desert sun.

We first meet Baez, the coyote-dog hybrid creature who, in smelling her own demise, ties together the parallel timelines of Bozak's novel: one in the present day and the second two years before, each playing out against the harsh landscape of the Oro Desert.

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Photos: Defend Our Climate Vancouver rally

Last Saturday May 10, the Defend Our Climate rally happened across Canada. People gathered to protest Big Oil, fracking in Canada, Enbridge's pipelines and to demand that Canadian politicians make climate justice a priority.

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What needs to change in the B.C. fruit and win industry?

Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley are a huge part of the wine and fruit industries in B.C. because it relies on the SAWP. What needs to change?

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Fruits of labour: Migrant farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley

Christina Turner

| May 8, 2014

British Columbia's Okanagan Valley is a breathtaking, 20,000 square kilometre strip of sagebrush-topped hills that slide into narrow lakes, where southwestern desert morphs into mountainous lake country in the space of an hour's drive. It is the hub of fruit growing and winemaking in B.C., industries that have been significantly (if at times invisibly) transformed by the North American Free Trade Agreement. It is also home, for eight months of the year, to 1,500 temporary migrant farmworkers.

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