Editorial — Spring 2024
This initial release of the Perspectives Journal sets up the arena for debate among the progressive left of ideas and their applications for a more equal and just Canada.
All Articles
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Indigenous Citizenship and Civil Society: An Intervention
There is no pan-Indigenous legal order and no pan-Indigenous response to questions of Indigenous citizenship. The determination of these questions must always be according to a specific legal order, laws, and legal process.
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Bank of Canada Independence Vs. Accountability
The origin of the concept of central bank independence is a critique of social democratic ideas prevalent during the middle part of Friedman’s career.
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Basic Income for a New Model of Canadian Social Democracy
Now is the time for the democratic left in Canada to develop a workable and comprehensive version of basic income as a key policy instrument, and not a sideline consideration.
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Addressing the Rise of Investor Ownership of Housing, Part 1: Assessing the Scale and Impacts across Canada
Ownership of housing is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of wealthy Canadians, fostering a worsening status quo for everyone else.
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Social Democracy from the Golden Age to the Great Recession
The Golden Age was marked by very strong economic growth and by close to full employment, resulting in steadily rising real wages and the expansion of the fiscal base needed to finance the growing welfare state.
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Trad-Wives and Hustle-Bros: Contemporary Rejections of Late-Stage Capitalism
The “trad-wife” and “hustle-bro” subcultures are a phenomena of the social media age, and a symptom of late-stage capitalism.
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Social Democracy from the Gilded Age to the Golden Age
By the inter-war period, social democracy had emerged in Canada as a more or less coherent ideological and political force.
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A Common Platform for a Green Industrial Transformation
Across Canada, public investments totalling $188 billion over five years in these key priorities are urgently needed to drive a prosperous green transformation.
