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Brazil’s Workers Party (PT) government, led by former Marxist guerilla, Dilma Rouseff, is in the midst of a political crisis that it may not weather. Embroiled in a corruption scandal involving [...]

When Marx and Engels penned the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Europe was in the midst of revolutionary change. The opening line of the Manifesto is “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of [...]

The gloves are off in what could be one of the most watched labour fights in recent years. The Canadian Hockey League is an umbrella organization administering three hockey leagues with 60 teams [...]

In my latest sports column for Canadian Dimension, I deconstruct the rebranding of the Toronto Raptors–with a big shout out to  Gamel Abdel-Shehid. The Raptors are hot. Toronto’s [...]

In my latest column for Canadian Dimension, I reflect on the summer protests in Brazil and the upcoming World Cup of soccer. During its coverage of the summer demonstrations in Brazil, the New [...]

I recently had the pleasure of guest editing a special sports issue of Canadian Dimension, the first of its kind in the magazine’s fifty year history. Below is my introduction to the issue. [...]

On April 15th 1989, Liverpool Football Club and Nottingham Forest met at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, in the semi-final of English soccer’s oldest and most prestigious competition, the FA [...]

With so much going on at the crossroads of politics and sports, I’ve decided to name my sporting heroes and villains for the year to date: Heroes Caster Semenya Persevering through some of the [...]

Jeremy Lin is an overnight NBA superstar. Back in spring, Lin led the New York Knicks to nine wins in 12 games in his first 12 starts, creating a media firestorm—dubbed “Linsanity”—that quickly [...]

In my latest sports column for Canadian Dimension, I address the Penn State affair and the culture of male violence which afflicts US college sports. I have an uneasy relationship with US college [...]