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Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse  is a Canadian Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Nursing Journal.

We currently publish twice a year

We are a collective of registered nurses whose practice, research, teaching and way of being is rooted in social justice.

We embrace the open access movement and seek to further dismantle multiple systemic barriers to knowledge dissemination.

We invite critical nursing discourse rooted in Social Justice, Advocacy, Power, Justice, Intersectionality, and Critical Social Theory.

We welcome & embrace plurality in criticality.

The Editorial Collective welcomes submissions that are language-based and/or arts-informed.

And we welcome undergraduate nursing students to consider submitting works they are engaged in concerning social justice and advocacy and to do so working with a faculty member who will serve as co-author.

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Current Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): CRITICAL NURSING FOR HEALTH EQUITY- OPEN CALL
View Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): CRITICAL NURSING FOR HEALTH EQUITY- OPEN CALL

Witness readers, editors, reviewers, supporters and contributors form a collective of critical nurses in Canada and beyond who strive to ameliorate inequities in the health and quality of life of all. By virtue of nursing’s privileged societal position, we witness a wide array of inequities that require us to take action. Our tag line represents the ethos of the journal: “See* it .... Speak it .... Write it .... Change it ....”

Periodically we issue an OPEN Call for Papers that reflects the ethos and intent of the journal - loosely titled " Critical Nursing for Health Equity."

Submission examples may include but are not limited to:

  • Nurse Activism- examples, barriers, facilitators
  • Whistle Blowing in Nursing and health care
  • Rebel Nurses then and now
  • Critical Research Methodologies
  • Examples of/Calls for Resistance in Nursing
    • Anti-Oppression Nursing Efforts: Past or Present
  • Policy Advocacy by Nursing
  • Disruptive Innovations in Nursing Research, Practice or Education
  • Critical Pedagogy/Education for Social Change
  • Intersectional Analyses of Health or Quality of Life
  • Critical Analyses of Power in the context of Health, Quality of Life, or Nursing
  • Health (In)Equity
  • Social Justice Nursing
  • Decolonizing Nursing
  • Linguistic Hegemony and Resistance
  • Critical Community Health Nursing
  • Critical Disability lenses and practices in nursing
  • other? - Feel free to contact the editor in advance of the deadline to discuss a potential piece, and include a proposed abstract
Published: 2026-07-13

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