What Canadians Can Learn from Progressives Across the Americas
Progressive governments in the Global South should show Canadians how to build a vision for a good society, where transformation for the wellbeing of all Canadians is the goal.
Opinion
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Death, Taxes, and Building Canada’s Social Infrastructure
While it may be true that the only certain things in life are death and taxes, it is also true taxes help us live better—and healthier—lives.
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Economic Liberation: A Gender-Based Case for Basic Income
Gender-based violence traps hundreds of thousands of Canadian women in dangerous situations and economic precarity. A Basic Income Guarantee could transform our response from crisis management to prevention.
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A New Kind of Corner Store
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
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Ottawa Should Confront the Failure of Corporate Tax Policy
Mark Carney stands at a crossroads: continue corporate tax breaks, or deliver an industrial strategy that distributes income more equally among Canadians.
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Closing the Gap: Grassroots Organizing and Policy Making for Housing in Canada
The housing crisis in Canada is too large, entrenched, and politically complex to solve with siloed strategies.
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Reclaiming the NDP’s Working-Class Roots Through Public Power
Public ownership of electricity has been one of the great progressive victories in Canadian history—a model that delivered high union density and good jobs for generations.
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How Mis/Disinformation is Driving Alberta to the Right, Part 2: the 2023 Provincial Election
Misinformation and disinformation are polarizing Alberta politics, stoking division and a reactionary shift to the right.
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The Stories We Tell: How Media Coverage of Sexual Violence Can Perpetuate Harm
May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month, yet victims of sexual and gender-based violence still cannot find justice in their stories told by the Canadian media.
