Posts by Am Johal

About Am Johal

Am Johal is Director of Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. He is the co-founder of the Vancouver Institute for Social Research and the University of BC’s Humanities 101 program. He is the author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene (2015, Atropos Press) and co-author with Matt Hern of the forthcoming Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (2018, The MIT Press).

Glacial pace of governments out of sync with fentanyl crisis

Dec 20, 2017

By Am Johal

British Columbia is experiencing the worst opioid overdose crisis in its history. By October 31st, the BC Coroners Service reported that 1208 people had died from overdose: higher than the next three causes of unnatural deaths combined—suicides, motor vehicle incidents and homicides. The numbers for November and December will be released early next year and… View Article

Housing crisis worse: Former UN special rapporteur Miloon Kothari revisits Vancouver

Dec 1, 2017

By Am Johal

As the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2000 to 2008, Miloon Kothari observed the failure of market-based approaches to addressing housing crises. His 2007 report on Canada called for “a national strategy [for the] large scale building of social housing, and much better tenant protection laws, coordinated strategy on… View Article