With extreme heat, storms, forest fires, and floods Canadians should now expect their buildings to protect them from such weather extremes and to not add to the climate problem.
The 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Armine Yalnizyan—a leading voice on Canada’s economic scene.
As these brave public workers undertake one of the largest strike actions in Canadian history, we progressives need to have their backs.
Steering markets towards achieving societally relevant goals is the reason to have an industrial policy in the first place. While policymakers must monitor international changes and adapt accordingly, an effective green industrial policy must be more than a short-term response to American policy actions.
La politique industrielle devrait être conçue de manière à favoriser l’atteinte des objectifs sociétaux pertinents du Canada et non de manière défensive face aux événements qui se déroulent aux États-Unis.
Poilievre won’t do anything to fix these problems, of course. It is one thing to know the issues, but it is quite another to solve them.
SaskTel — a publicly-owned telecommunications company — already enjoys significant market share in Saskatchewan, forcing the big guys to lower their prices to compete.
At minimum a standard definition of affordability ought to be developed to determine how to best rectify Ontario’s housing crisis.
In mature, world-class economies, workers are properly understood as the foundation of economic success and unions are seen as critical partners in that success. Doug Ford has proven that Ontario, at least, has some growing up to do. Executive Director Jennifer Hassum on CUPE’s fight for labour rights, originally published in the Ottawa Citizen.
