Temitayo Olarewaju, PhD Candidate in the Peter A. Allard School of Law, reflects on the impacts of Canada’s House of Commons’ official recognition of the residential school system as genocide.
Residential school system recognized as genocide in Canada’s House of Commons: A harbinger of change
How ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ video game reinforces antisemitic scapegoating with goblins
UBC Philosophy Postdoctoral fellow, Celia Edell, traces the deep cultural roots of antisemitic tropes using the new “Hogwarts Legacy” video game as an example.
In Danielle Smith’s fantasy Alberta, Indigenous struggle is twisted to suit settlers
Dr. Daniel Heath Justice highlights the way Canadian political rhetoric appropriates Indigenous symbols and identities to perpetuate negative stereotypes and build up false settler-colonial mythologies.