Donald Gutstein
Donald is an author and adjunct professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He has studied the media and right-wing think tanks for several decades. His concern is to understand how and why the Right is winning the war of ideas. This is documented in his most recent book, Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada.
Stories by Donald Gutstein
Big Oil’s Man in the Senate
7 min. readAlberta Conservative Senator Doug Black worries that Canadians are illiterate when it comes to energy...
Purchasing Credibility: Industry and Academy Align Forces Through The Calgary School of Public Policy
During her recent election campaign, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley pledged to raise Alberta’s minimum...
Resource Works: Two Cheers for Natural Resources?
“Without natural resources we’d be naked” claims a message stencilled on the chests of four...
How Stephen Harper Used God and Neoliberalism to Construct the Radical Environmentalist Frame
Stephen Harper’s efforts to frame environmentalists as radicals who deserve to be investigated by the...
Shooting the Messenger: Tracing Canada’s Anti-Enviro Movement
When former environment minister Jim Prentice held his introductory lunch with U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson...
Tracing the ‘Endless War’ on Environmentalists Back to the War in the Woods
No one admits to recording Richard Berman’s address to a room full of energy executives...
