In this new Monitor feature we invite a prominent Canadian to provide a reading list for better understanding a pressing topic.

Canada is no stranger to dynastic ownership of its media companies

A strong fact-checking industry can stop the normalization of lying and advocate for policy changes. But the weaponization of fact-checking can cause irreversible harm.

For decades, the media has been circling the issue of sexual violence, mirroring society’s discomfort.

As it stands right now, political parties in Canada face little oversight or transparency requirements for the data they collect and create about Canadian citizens.

Media concentration in [the U.S. and Brazil] has reached phenomenal levels, and it is compounded by the massive spread of pernicious fake news.

Canadians need to face our history of violence, and we need a mediascape that can help us do this complicated, messy work.

A post-CETA free trade deal with the United Kingdom should facilitate decarbonization and a just transition, not get in the way.

Not everyone is a gruff-but-beloved Vermont socialist... So how do you build a distributed organizing program without a national presidential campaign?

For a 15-minute city to properly serve all people, it needs to be undertaken for all people.

The German experience with sectoral bargaining should remind worker advocates that legislative reform is not a quick fix to the erosion of trade union power.

In praise of unseen networks.

An unethical position that needs to change.

ON JANUARY 4, 2021, workers at Alphabet, the parent company of tech giant Google, announced through an op-ed in the New York Times that they had formed the Alphabet Workers Union, as part of the Communications Workers of America. Here's what happened next.