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Each year around Remembrance Day, I find myself thinking about what it means to live inside a culture that trains endurance as its highest virtue. Across this series, I have…
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Every empire writes its morality through the safety of the bodies of children. Whether on the battlefield or in the classroom.
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Across British Columbia, the launch of Surrey DPAC’s Room Clear Tracker has ignited a storm of debate among parents, educators, and disability advocates. Some view it as a necessary step…
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A reflection on maternal vigilance in a system that demands composure while inflicting harm. This essay follows a mother’s daily act of sending her autistic son into an environment that…
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Data is the scaffolding of democratic accountability. Without shared facts, policy becomes theatre and suffering becomes rumour. That is why regimes that fear transparency always tamper with the census, and…
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When we first shared the launch of Surrey’s Room Clear Tracker, we saw it as a potential step toward long-overdue transparency. For many families, including my own, the absence of…
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An examination of how education absorbs military and capitalist values—discipline, endurance, and efficiency—until joy becomes a threat to order. This piece argues that the rationing of joy for disabled students…
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A critique of austerity as a governing principle. This essay argues that Canada’s education and defence systems share a moral and strategic collapse: both confuse restraint with wisdom and endurance…
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The Canary Collective’s Record. Transcribe. Protect. reminds us that advocacy depends on memory, and memory depends on record-keeping. Their piece describes how recording school meetings transforms fleeting conversation into an accountable…
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An analysis of how bureaucratic obedience erodes conscience. Drawing on moral injury research from military and healthcare contexts, this essay reframes teacher burnout as institutional betrayal. It shows how educators…
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Canary Collective’s piece The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: What’s Said About Parents After They Leave the Room tells what often happens after parents leave a school meeting.…
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A meditation on how institutions train people to ignore suffering—how desensitisation, scarcity, and forced optimism erode empathy and make harm seem ordinary.
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In Surrey, British Columbia, a new parent-led initiative is bringing long-needed visibility to a silent crisis in public education: classroom evacuations when a student experiences distress. The Surrey District Parents…
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Each year when the light thins and the trees surrender their leaves, we are reminded that systems rot slowly, from the inside out, while pretending to stand tall. The fluorescent…
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Lily Allen says, “No one fucks with me and gets away with it.” The line lands like a gavel. Twenty years ago, that kind of declaration would have drawn eye-rolling about bitterness…
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The Ministry paid Deetken Enterprises Inc. $335,400 across four contracts to conduct reviews of: See Ministry of Education and Child Care – Contracts over $10,000 CAD Deetken Insight (the company’s consulting arm)…
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Every few months, another glowing feature appears about a private school that has “redefined education.” This time, the subject is Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School in North Vancouver, described as a…
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Across Alberta this week, hundreds of students left their classrooms, gathered on overpasses, marched to the legislature, and declared in one collective voice: we stand with our educators. CityNews Edmonton+1 In the…
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The Canary Collective has written Systemic grooming and the illusion of care, a piece that captures, with devastating precision, what many educators and parents have felt but could rarely name:…
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In On Student Absences, Race-Based Data, Private Schools and More, education scholar Kelly Gallagher-Mackay reminds us that public schooling in Canada remains one of the few institutions still striving for…
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I have returned to writing after a long silence—one imposed less by choice than by survival. The move was necessary, a matter of financial gravity after years of lost income…
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Updates on policy shifts, school board decisions, and systemic advocacy related to collective punishment and inclusion in BC schools. Follow key developments affecting neurodivergent students, disability rights, and education reform across districts and provinces.
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The reason column in my son’s permanent record is mostly blank. When a reason survives, it’s ParentGuardianExcuse.
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Families and teachers are describing the same failure from two positions inside it. The system survives by keeping them from recognising each other.
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The Canary Collective went upstream this week, and the gloves came off. In “Delay, Distract, and Deny”, Wren takes the old public-health parable about pulling bodies from a river and turns…