Category: Canada

Featured artist: Zola (MTL)

In 2019, I happened to meet Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, a graphic designer, educator, and community organizer, who was working at the annual Montreal Anarchist Book Fair. He had a bunch of stickers for sale by him and by another artist, Zola, also from Montreal. He gave me Zola’s contact info for an interview via email, which is featured in this post. Zola is a new member of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and her bio from the Justseeds website is listed below: “Zola is an anarchist, queer, settler of french-canadian descent based in so-called Montréal, occupied Kanien’kehá:ka and Anishinabe territories. She…

Montreal Anarchist Bookfair 2017

I went to the 2017 Montreal Anarchist Bookfair last May to look for stickers after having gone to fairs there for that purpose every year from 2012 to 2015 (but missing the one in 2016). The fairs feature book publishers, primarily, but some of the vendors also sell or give away stickers (or offer them as PWYW – pay what you will). Others participating in the fair usually include such groups as the Beehive Design Collective, Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, and the Quebec Public Interest Research Group at Concordia. Several presentations, hands-on workshops, and an art exhibition are also part of…

Ottawa sticker in time for the holidays

Political stickers are fairly rare in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, but I found this one today in the downtown Byward Market about a minute after stepping onto the street.  The Web site listed on the sticker leads to a pretty well-researched Top Ten list of [Prime Minister Stephen] Harper’s Crimes Against Humanity, including: Blocking Progress in the Fight Against Climate Change, Promoting Endless War, Helping Canadian Mining Companies Destroy the Earth, Lying about the War in Afghanistan, and others.  There is plenty to write about Stephen Harper and his party’s conservative policies, but some that are most discouraging are…