From Marketing to Movement-Building: Ground Game and Community Organizing in Party Politics
It’s been said that “the ground game can only take you so far”. But what if the right kind of ground game can count for more than we realize?
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Why all Canadians Need Decommodified Reproductive Healthcare
In Canada, reproductive healthcare is deeply commodified, affecting access to resources from contraception to fertility treatments. Canadians tend to pride themselves on being “better” than their southern neighbours, but in this instance, being better is not good enough.
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Private Equity and Health Care: Should Canadians be concerned?
An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corporate practice of medicine.
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Femininity, Hyper-Commodified: Consumerism, Social Media, and Beauty Standards
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
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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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La réaction canadienne à la loi américaine sur la réduction de l’inflation (Inflation Reduction Act) mettra-t-elle en évidence l’absence de politique industrielle verte du Canada?
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.
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Will the Response to the US Inflation Reduction Act Reveal Canada’s Lack of Green Industrial Policy?
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.
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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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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.
