Jeff Rubin: unpacking the impact of globalisation on working people Rubin makes the connection between the anxiety – if not anger – about the hollowing out of the US industrial heartlands, the coastal regions that fuelled England’s Brexit vote and the so-called populist revolts against the political class in France
An overgrown parking lot lies empty in front of the closed Packard Electric complex on October 29, 2012 in Warren, Ohio. Warren, like much of rust belt Ohio, had suffered through long-term economic decline, even before the 2010s recession. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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Cartographic highlights from Canadian Geographic’s 2020 issues
December 30, 2020
Truth be told, quite possibly our most popular map of 2020 isn’t included below. Why? It appeared on this website only, partly owing to its timeliness (at the time) it was a map of COVID-19 cases in Canada per capita in April. (The map, and accompanying blog post by our cartographer Chris Brackley, is the most-read piece on our site this year!) Still, what’s gathered here are other highlight examples of cartographic creations we published in print in 2020. (See our top maps from 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015, too!) Each is equally intriguing in its own right and they’re all definitely worth exploring.
Also on the subject of using your hands was Calgary contributor Greg Williams’ inspiring and spirit-lifting column entitled “Tinkering through self-isolation,” a first-person account of his escape into his garage to resurrect, in his words, “a Triumph rigid-frame machine that is being built the hard way from a pile of parts that weren’t ever originally together.”
The accompanying photo, of Greg sitting in his wheelchair beside one of his old motorcycles, really resonated with me. Not because I didn’t know he was a paraplegic – I’ve known the story about the aftermath of his bike wreck since it happened 15 years ago – but because of his indomitable spirit under COVID-19 restrictions and how his column underscored that working on and fixing old machines is great for the soul.