Immigration posed a difficult question for interwar Canadian socialists. One the one hand, they promoted a universalist vision of a Cooperative Commonwealth; on the other, they wished to protect Canadian workers from foreign competition. This lecture explores how social democrats like J.S. Woodsworth, Agnes Macphail and A.A. Heaps navigated these turbulent waters. Speaker: Edward Dunsworth

[HYBRID EVENT – Author in attendance (in-person)!] Join us online and in-person for the launch of Paul Kellogg’s new book Austerity and Resistance: The Ontario Days of Action, 1995–1998. Published 30 years after the Toronto general strike of October 1996, Austerity and Resistance aims to tell its story of the social movement and lessons that […]

The Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and York University are proud to be hosting the Fifth Annual Alchemy Lecture, ScALE. The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal, multi-modal, model that annually brings together a constellation of thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies […]