What is “affordability” to Ontario’s Housing Affordability Task Force?
At minimum a standard definition of affordability ought to be developed to determine how to best rectify Ontario’s housing crisis.
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Undermining collective bargaining rights hurts Ontario’s economy
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.
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Does “green capitalism” set the right price on planetary survival?
Why are mainstream economists so keen on costing out the value of nature, climate-induced disasters, and planetary survival? These are central questions Adrienne Buller asks in a well-argued and highly relevant critique of “green capitalism” and its attempts at putting a price on planetary survival.
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The end of right-wing economic credibility? Lessons of the 2022 UK economic crisis
Within the context of capitalist orthodoxy, there are no good options; only bad choices which will lead to a recession, rising unemployment and deepening poverty and inequality.
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Why the Cambie case should concern us all
The Cambie Case is an important policy decision with massive impact on our cherished public healthcare systems that many Canadians are not familiar with. Adjudicated in British Columbia, this four-year-long trial began in 2016 and ended in 2020. Fortunately, the Provincial Court of BC recently made the decision to rule against privatizing health care financing.
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The price of labour and the price of everything else
Without redistributive policies, monetary policy alone can be detrimental to employment and wages. In addition to tackling profits through windfall and wealth taxes to fight price inflation everywhere else, we need to increase the price of labour. Governments must raise minimum wages to keep up with inflation, invest in decommodified housing, empower unions to defend…
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No mental health care without pharmacare
When thinking about mental health care, one would expect medication coverage to be included. While mental health and pharmacare are parts of universal health care for many countries, Canada lags behind as the exception.
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Two new reports you should read on Just Transition
While droughts and high temperatures grab headlines, truly implementing FPIC should not be seen as a roadblock to climate action, but instead be seen as an integral part to build trust and smooth relations to reduce transaction costs for a Just Transition.
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Dystopia is not inevitable, but institutions need radical transformation
In his new book, Escaping Dystopia: Rebuilding a Public Domain, McMaster University Professor Stephen McBride argues that we can escape dystopia by pointing to the contemporary relevance of democratic socialism, embedded in a close analysis of the multiple overlapping crises of neoliberalism.
