Why the Program Cuts at York University Are Bad for Democracy
Recent cuts sent a chill through Ontario’s academic community, and signalled a deeply disturbing devaluation of higher education and scholarship.
Opinion
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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Wellness and the Working-Class: The Artifice of Benefits under Capitalism
Wellness Spending Accounts (WSAs) first-and-foremost enhance the “bottom line” at the expense of the working-class.
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A Common Platform for a Green Industrial Transformation
Across Canada, public investments totalling $188 billion over five years in these key priorities are urgently needed to drive a prosperous green transformation.
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We Need to Talk about Workers’ Ownership
As prospects for the broadly shared prosperity that Canadians rightly expect are fading in a system in which too many of the gains go to the top, thinking about how worker ownership can play a vital role in creating a more equal, democratic economy has become an important task.
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Embers of the Mass Party: Membership and Democracy
What if the CCF-NDP’s history as a mass party and a democratic, membership-based movement for a better world is in fact its unique strength in Canadian politics?
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News and Analysis for Informing a Progressive Perspective in the Age of Bill C-18
Despite the gloomy outlook for the future of journalism, it is still quite possible to access news and opinion independent of social media.
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Housing and the Contradictions of Conventional Economics
Ordinary Canadians will certainly feel the heat from the price of housing when monetary policy adds fuel to the fire while their pay cheques freeze.
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Is Pierre Poilievre Really Who He Says He Is On Housing?
It is unclear exactly how further financialization and profit maximisation of Canada’s housing market is supposed to lead to affordable housing.
