Social democracy versus “populism”
What we urgently need is a recreation of the effective politics of post-War social democracy. But we can’t just return to the past.
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Canada-China trade agreement no deal for Canadian workers
Given the huge imbalance, this would likely require more managed trade plus more proactive Canadian industrial policies. As a planned economy, China might be open to sectoral managed trade arrangements.
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Fighting the ills of corporate concentration
In this new age of corporate concentration, we certainly need a much broader response than competition policy alone.
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Ed Broadbent: It’s time to change the game
It’s not right for us to think that we Canadians are immune to a radical right wing fanning intolerance and hate. We cannot be complacent. We need to change the game.
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Public investment and the innovation agenda
The innovation agenda marks another incremental turn away from “framework” economic development policies. But the shift is unlikely to be transformational unless it is scaled up and accompanied by a greater role for long-term public investment.
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For future gender budgets, we need good data at the intersections
Without that information, how do we answer the central question – are we making the right choices that will help us live up to our vision of greater equality?
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Internal documents challenge government’s funding claims for Indigenous children
The government’s refusal to meet the terms of the Human Rights Tribunal ruling reminds us that Canada’s economy systematically devalues Indigenous life.
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Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?
A necessary prerequisite for restoring Western democratic capitalism, and even more so social democracy or democratic socialism, is to force the genie of finance back into its bottle.
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Affordable housing increasingly illusory in Vancouver, Toronto
These data point to stark and growing disparity between incomes and housing prices since 2005, far outstretching a related but less pronounced trend in the rest of the country.
