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Editorial — Spring 2025
Amid this nationalist fervour is a desire to protect Canadian institutions such as public healthcare – a profoundly distinct and equalizing system that has insulated the Canadian working-class from the affordability experiences of Americans.
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The Monopoly Problem at the Heart of Canada’s Food System
While the ongoing cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians has been provoked by recent global events, the consolidation of the Canadian food system has been a long-running and strenuous process.
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Institutional Design of Price Controls in Canada
Market concentration in key sectors, including groceries, transportation, and commodity production renders Canada particularly vulnerable to the threat of sellers’ inflation. As a result, Canada should seize the opportunity before the next major supply shock to implement a Weber-inspired policy playbook.
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Constraints on Democracy: Capital Mobility and Political Inequality
Regardless of one’s governing model, control over interjurisdictional capital flows is a necessary condition for genuinely democratic policy-making.
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This Time It Is Worse: Political Economy of the Current International Debt Crisis
Volatile, short term and footloose private capital is supplanting stable, long-term public financing which is crucial for long-term economic and social development, and for climate investments.
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Designing a Rights-Based National Child Care Strategy: Lessons from Europe
Although economic uncertainty through the present crisis makes it challenging to envision a more ambitious national child care system, we should not be deterred in this goal to decommodify care.
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From Public Power to Public Grocers in Canada: ‘Zoning Out’ for Economic Democracy
Progressives should consider creating and developing their own “zones” for building democratic power, putting into practice social democratic values. Through these islands of social democracy, the diffusion of democratic power could be incubated and seeded to propagate widely as neoliberal systems wither and fail.
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Class & Climate: Green Industrial Policy with Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood define what green industrial policy is and explain why it’s having a renaissance in the middle of the Trump trade war.
