Stephen Dale is the author of four previous non-fiction books exploring issues ranging from the rise of the media-based environmental politics of Greenpeace; the impacts of suburban culture on politics in Canada and the United States; and the role of youth-focused propaganda in creating support for the bloodbath that was the First World War. He’s been a freelance contributor to leading Canadian and international publications, was Canadian correspondent for InterPress Service news agency, and has created numerous radio documentaries for the CBC. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Jacqueline M. Davies teaches in the Philosophy and Women’s Studies departments at Queen’s University, Kingston. She is the co-author of Good Reasons for Better Arguments, a textbook in critical thinking.
Libby Davies is a Canadian activist and politician from British Columbia. She moved to Vancouver in 1968 and served as a city councillor from 1982 to 1993, then represented the federal riding of Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015 under the New Democratic Party banner. She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2016 and is Canada’s first openly lesbian MP.
James Davis is an Irish documentary filmmaker in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Michael Dawson is Professor of History at St. Thomas University where he teaches courses on Canadian History, the global history of sport and tourism, and the comparative history of national identity and popular culture in Canada, New Zealand and Australia.In 2014 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Richard Day is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston. He is a founder of the Critical U. community education project in Vancouver and had participated in food, housing, and financial co-operatives. He is also active in the anti-globalization movement and in defending the university as a public space for critical thought.
Adrienne De Francesco is a creative home cook who knows FoodShare inside out. She delights in exploring and sharing all things food: where it comes from and how to grow it, to the many ways in which it feeds us all, body and soul.
Artist, author, and illustrator, Clément de Gaulejac has lived in Montreal since the early 2000s. His most recent exhibition is entitled Les Maitres du monde sont des gens (Galerie UQO, 2019; Écart, 2021; Plein sud, 2022; Musée régional de Rimouski, 2023). He is also the creator of the fountain called Bottes de pluie, installed in front of the Maisonneuve Library in Montreal. With Le Quartanier editions, he has published Les artistes (2017), Grande école (2012) as well as Le livre noir de l’art conceptuel (2011). In 2021, he was the recipient of the Grantham Foundation Research Fellowship. In 2022, he published in the collection Terrains vague des PUM the theoretical essay Tu vois ce que je veux dire ? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent, recipient of the Spirale Eva-Legrand prize. In 2023, he published Petites différences, les anciennes les modernes et toutes les autres with Éditions du Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. As an illustrator, he regularly collaborates with various newspapers, magazines and publishing houses. You can see all the posters he has produced in support of various social or political movements on the site: www.eau-tiede.org.
Martine Delvaux is a professor of literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in feminist theory, and is the author of four novels, including The Last Bullet is for You.
Alain Deneault is a writer, philosopher, and academic known for his exposés of off-shore tax havens and mining giants. But now, he delves in to our present-day struggle against a global regime that seeks to extinguish critical thought. He is a Director of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris and is a professor of sociology at the Université de Québec à Montréal. Médiocracy has sold over 50,000 copies in French.
Richard Denniss is chief economist of the Australia Institute and the author of Econobabble. He writes for the Monthly, the Canberra Times, and the Australian Financial Review.
Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson has been elected chief of his Westbank First Nation six times and is one of the most successful First Nations business people in Canada. He was made a Grand Chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs in recognition of a lifetime of political and economic leadership.
Dr. Dale Dewar is associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, an active member of the International Committee of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada, a two-term member of the Canadian Friends Service Committee, and former Executive Director of Physicians for Global Survival.
Mira Dineen is entering her final year of study at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where she is completing her Honours B.A. in Global Development Studies.