Authors

Alex Cosh

Alex Cosh is the news editor of The Maple.

Adam D.K. King

Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Davide Mastracci

Davide Mastracci is the opinion editor at The Maple. He was previously the managing editor at Passage.

Nora Loreto

Nora Loreto is the author of 'Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

Robert Hiltz

Robert Hiltz is a columnist at Passage based in Ottawa.

Jeremy Appel

Jeremy Appel is an independent Edmonton-based journalist and the author of Kenneyism: Jason Kenney’s Pursuit of Power.

Taylor C. Noakes

Taylor C. Noakes is an independent journalist and public historian from Montreal.

V.S. Wells

V. S. Wells is a writer and journalist originally from the U.K. They currently live on unceded Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh territory in Vancouver, B.C.

Taylor Scollon

Taylor Scollon is a writer based in Toronto.

Nur Dogan

Nur Dogan is a Turkish-Canadian freelance journalist and photojournalist.

Emma Paling

Mila Ghorayeb

Mila Ghorayeb is a law student and a columnist at The Maple. Mila’s work focuses on antiwar politics, ideology and critique of media.

Em Thompson

Em Thompson is a writer, occasional radio producer and researcher based in Toronto.

Cass Kislenko

Cassandra Kislenko is a non-binary settler journalist working and writing on Treaty 13 territory in Tkaronto.

James Wilt

James Wilt is a freelance journalist and graduate student based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Paris Marx

Paris Marx is a tech critic and host of Tech Won’t Save Us. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.

Cole Webber

Cole Webber is a legal clinic worker in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto.

Sam Smart

Sam Smart is a freelance writer based in Vancouver.

Abram Lutes

Abram is a M.A. student at the Institute of Political Economy, at Carleton University where he studies underdevelopment and right-wing populism.

Christo Aivalis

Christo Aivalis is a political writer and commentator with a PhD in History. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and Canadian Dimension.

Tara Alami

Tara is a Palestinian organizer and writer from occupied Jerusalem and occupied Yafa.

Terra Loire Gillespie

Terra Loire Gillespie is a human, digital strategist, and recovering political staffer residing in Toronto.

Kelly Jarman

Kelly Jarman works in Seoul where he teaches business English and standardized tests.

Rob Rousseau

Rob Rousseau is a writer and podcaster. He lives with his family in Montreal.

Dustin Godfrey

Dustin is a freelance journalist and writer based out of the Vancouver, B.C. area. Their writing interests includes issues around justice, including housing, drug policy and policing.

Gabrielle Peters

Gabrielle Peters is a disabled writer and policy analyst living in social housing. She is a commissioner on the Vancouver City Planning Commission.

Jasmyne Eastmond

Jasmyne Eastmond is a freelance writer currently based in Toronto. She has degrees from UBC and the University of Cambridge.

Emma Arkell

Emma Arkell (she/her) is a multimedia journalist based in Vancouver. Her work focuses on labour, social movements and cities, and can be found in PressProgress, Briarpatch and elsewhere.

Scott Martin

Scott Martin is an independent journalist and podcaster. He hosts The Bend of History podcast and The Catch, a newsletter that analyzes Canadian news media from an anti-capitalist perspective.

Joël Laforest

Joël Laforest studies urban geography and inequality in Calgary, Alberta, and produces the Alberta Advantage Podcast.

Michael Bueckert

Michael Bueckert is Vice President of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME). He has a PhD in Sociology and Political Economy from Carleton University.

Karen Geier

Karen Geier is a writer based in Toronto who has been published in The Guardian, Vice, NY Magazine's The Cut, and more.

Aaron Giovannone

Aaron Giovannone is a writer and professor based in Calgary. He is the host and producer of Sweater Weather, a podcast about Canadian culture, politics and economics from a socialist perspective.

Jon Greenaway

Jon Greenaway is a writer, researcher and academic from the North of England. He writes on horror, popular culture and the realities of life under contemporary capitalism.

Dalya Al Masri

Dalya Al Masri is a writer and journalist based in Vancouver.

Pouyan Tabasinejad

Pouyan Tabasinejad is an Iranian Canadian political activist. Currently, he is the Vice President of the Iranian Canadian Congress, a non-profit and non-partisan organization.

The Maple Staff

Tristan Wheeler

Tristan Wheeler is a freelance writer based in Toronto. His work has been featured in The Capital Daily, Passage, POV Magazine and more.

Ashlynn Chand

Ashlynn Chand is a freelance writer based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan/Edmonton. She has written for Ricochet, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, Jacobin, This Magazine, and more.

Simon Rolston

Simon Rolston lives in Vancouver and writes about criminal justice issues.

Cam Cannon

Cam Cannon is an Anishinaabe writer based in Winnipeg where they serve as news editor for the Manitoban.

Nazanin Zarepour

Nazanin Zarepour is a writer and researcher based in Toronto. Her research focuses on political philosophy, the intersections of ideology, alternative post-colonial modernity and resistance movements

Stavroula Pabst

Stavroula Pabst is a writer, comedian and PhD student in Communications and Mass Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece.

Matthew Alexandris

Matthew Alexandris is a freelance writer based in Markham.

Matthew Amha

Matthew Amha is a Toronto-based journalist with the CBC who has reported on politics, international affairs, race, arts and more for the public broadcaster.

Matthew McCreadie

Matthew McCreadie is a freelance writer based in Ontario.

Alexis Zhou

Alexis Zhou is a freelance writer based in Montreal.

Matt Korda

Matt Korda is a Senior Research Associate and Project Manager for the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists.

Kate Korte

Kate is a fourth-year Political Science student at the University of Victoria and a Senior Staff Writer for the university's independent student newspaper, the Martlet.

Jon Milton

Jon Milton is a journalist and freelancer's union member based in Montreal. His writing has appeared in Ricochet, Briarpatch, Rank and File, the Montreal Gazette, the Globe and Mail, and The Link.

Liam Meisner

Liam Meisner is a freelance writer based in British Columbia with an interest in political movements in Latin America and the Middle East. He helps run the polling aggregator America Elects.

Abdul Malik

Abdul Malik is a Toronto-born screenwriter and journalist who worked on the front lines of Canada's labour movement for years before co-writing Peace By Chocolate.

Seth Klein

Seth Klein is an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program and the former BC director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Kieran Delamont

Kieran Delamont is a freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Maisonneuve, Broadview, TVO and others. He is based in Ottawa, until such time as he can move to the middle of nowhere

Owen Schalk

Owen Schalk is a writer from rural Manitoba. He is the author of Canada in Afghanistan: A story of military, diplomatic, political and media failure, 2003-2023.

Aidan Simardone

Aidan Simardone is an immigration lawyer and writer. His work is featured in Jacobin, CounterPunch and Canadian Dimension.

Tyler Shipley

Tyler Shipley is a Professor of Society, Culture and Commerce in the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

José Luis Granados Ceja

Spencer Nafekh-Blanchette

Spencer Nafekh's work explores the intersection of arts, culture and politics. He has an undergraduate degree from Concordia University, and is currently finalizing a journalism master's at Carleton.

Aaron Lakoff

Aaron Lakoff is an award-winning independent journalist, media-maker, and anarchist community organizer based in Montreal, Canada.

Shaun Shepherd

Shaun Shepherd is a health researcher and activist. He is currently studying law at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law in Toronto.

Jordan Foisy

Jordan Foisy is a writer, comedian, and hardened bus traveler from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

Kevin Metcalf

Kevin Metcalf is a landscaper, activist and polemicist based in Toronto. He writes at the intersection of national security, extremism and free expression issues.

Hannan Mohamud

Hannan Mohamud is a law student and organizer interested in policy research.

Syed Hussan

Syed Hussan is the executive director of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, and co-founder of #RememberJan29 project to mark the Quebec Mosque shootings.

Sophie Birks

Sophie Birks is a researcher, organizer and writer based in rural Quebec.

Emma Jackson

Emma Jackson is an organizer with Climate Justice Edmonton and 350 Canada. She lives and works on Treaty 6 territory.

Rebecca Hume

Rebecca Hume (she/they) is a settler living on Treaty 1 lands, the homeland of the Métis Nation. She is a freelance researcher and community organizer in so-called Winnipeg.

Kevin Taghabon

Kevin Taghabon is a freelance journalist based in Toronto. His reporting includes on site coverage of political movements in Canada and the US over the past five years.

Tanya Nayler

Tanya Nayler is a writer who lives in Ottawa.

Chuka Ejeckam

Chuka Ejeckam is a writer and researcher living in Toronto.

Ibnul Chowdhury

Ibnul Chowdhury is an editor and a master’s student in international relations.

Brendan Devlin

Brendan Devlin is a Master’s student in Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Ashley Darrow

Ashley Darrow is a writer, film critic and co-host of the podcast Horror Vanguard.

Joshua K. McEvoy

Joshua K. McEvoy is a PhD candidate in political studies. His research focuses on just transition, social movements and the political economy of climate change.

Julie Han

Julie Han is a researcher and writer based in Tkaronto. She is completing her MA in Human Geography at the University of Toronto, focusing on work, debt, tech, logistics and transportation.

Laura Rose O’Connor

Laura Rose O'Connor is a freelance writer covering politics from a gendered and leftist lens. Her writings have appeared in Our Times Magazine, Rewire News, and ACTION Canada.

Anthony Plangger

Anthony Plangger is a law student and climate activist in Ottawa.

Philip Zigman

Philip Zigman is a co-creator of RenovictionsTO.

Geoff Sharpe

Geoff Sharpe is the co-founder of Passage and the People’s Media Platform, a podcast and newsletter about how leftists are building podcasts, publications and other new media.

John Loeppky

John Loeppky is a disabled freelance journalist and theatre artist living in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Bruce Crown

Bruce Crown is an author from Toronto. He holds an HBA from the University of Toronto, and an M.Phil. from the University of Copenhagen.

David Moscrop

David Moscrop is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa and the author of Too Dumb for Democracy?

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira

Phillip Mendonça-Vieira is an immigrant, an urbanist, an entrepreneur, and a software engineer.

Saad Ahmed

Saad Ahmed is a rural physician and lecturer at the University of Toronto. He has worked in many remote and rural settings, in ERs and inpatients wards. Views expressed are his own.

Bashir Mohamed

Bashir Mohamed is a freelance writer and researcher based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Natalie Malatesta

Natalie Malatesta is a sex worker and student living in Montreal. They write under a pseudonym.

Meghan Bell

Meghan Bell’s fiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals across Canada, and her critical essays have previously appeared in The Walrus and The Tyee.

Rob Csernyik

Rob Csernyik has written for Corporate Knights, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail and Vice. He is also the editor of Great Canadian Longform.

Steven Zhou

Steven Zhou is a freelance journalist based in Toronto focusing on discrimination, national security, and foreign policy issues.

Hilary Agro

Hilary Agro is a PhD candidate and anthropologist at the University of British Columbia.

Paula Ethans

Paula Ethans is a writer, organizer, and human rights lawyer from Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg), Canada.

Ali Terrenoire

Ali Terrenoire is an economist based in West Asia.

Sam Khanlari

Sam Khanlari is a Toronto-based writer and editor with a focus on Iranian affairs. His work has been featured by the Toronto Star, CBC News, and VICE.

Michael Petrucelli

Michael Petrucelli is a bartender and writer based in South Carolina. He was once called the Sarah Palin of Marxism and wishes he had her platform.

Eli Fox

Eli Fox is a writer and playwright living in Toronto. He holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature and Cultural Studies from McGill University.

Lana Polansky

Lana Polansky is an art and labour writer residing in Montreal. Her writing focuses mainly on the games industry, with special attention to lesser-known works.

Nashwa Lina Khan

Nashwa Lina Khan is an interdisciplinary community based facilitator, instructor and researcher. She hosts the podcast Habibti Please.

Rayne Fisher-Quann

Rayne Fisher-Quann is a Vancouver-based writer, organizer, and abolitionist.

Alec Stromdahl

Alec Stromdahl is a labour lawyer practicing in Toronto.