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.
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.
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.
Regardless of one’s governing model, control over interjurisdictional capital flows is a necessary condition for genuinely democratic policy-making.
Developing countries are facing the worst international debt crisis since the end of World War II. However, there have been four successive waves of debt since the 1970s, all of
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.
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.
