Doug Ford remains relentless in his fight for privatization. The Ontario government has announced changes to post-secondary education that, on the surface, may appear measured: the end of a long-standing tuition freeze, new funding for colleges and universities, a restructuring of student financial aid. But when taken together, these decisions continue a neoliberal policy direction that has been unfolding since 2019; one that shifts the cost of higher education away from the

What follows is drawn from published scholarship and documented records, not oral history. It cannot by any means replace the knowledge held by the communities whose ancestors shaped this land long before it was bordered or claimed. Roughly 10,000–12,000 years ago , after glacial ice carved out the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence basin, humans occupied the river corridor now known as the Niagara River. This narrow channel binding Lake Erie to Lake Ontario functioned as a geographic

When we trace the holiday season back far enough—not through shopping flyers or Victorian nostalgia, but through language—we find something that illuminates beyond the fluorescence of red-and-green LEDs. Christmas is actually a late addition to the human calendar, a medieval English blending of Cristes mæsse , “the mass of Christ.” Yet the season it names is far older than the word, older than the faith it represents, older than the societies that eventually wrapped it in st