Internal documents challenge government’s funding claims for Indigenous children
The government’s refusal to meet the terms of the Human Rights Tribunal ruling reminds us that Canada’s economy systematically devalues Indigenous life.
Opinion
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Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?
A necessary prerequisite for restoring Western democratic capitalism, and even more so social democracy or democratic socialism, is to force the genie of finance back into its bottle.
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Trump, Canada and life after NAFTA
Our trade situation was a serious problem long before the election of Donald Trump and new realities will demand a serious re-thinking of the liberal trade and industrial policies of the “free trade” era and not just more of the same.
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The case against privatization and P3s
At this moment of deep political convulsion throughout the West, the fight against privatization is part of a broader struggle against the economic logic that has led to corrosive inequality and underpinned the bankrupt neoliberal economic paradigm.
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The digital economy will not power a recovery
What we need to spark a meaningful recovery is a big boost to the demand side of the economy in the form of higher wages and more public investment.
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Whiteness trouble: the Left’s challenge after Trump
Will white progressives struggle for anti-racism alongside people of colour, and make it a central strategy and analytical tool in organizing change?
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Foreign investment not always a benefit
Acquisitions by foreign corporations of Canadian companies may be in the interests of shareholders and corporate executives, but harmful from the perspective of workers and local communities.
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Government action to curb solitary confinement long overdue
Only a legislated framework will ensure that everyone’s Charter rights are respected once the light cast by the Adam Capay case on this abusive practice dims.
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Private infrastructure bank not in the public interest
History is replete with examples of botched public-private projects which left governments on the hook for high costs and for losses, and public agencies do have the capacity to make good decisions.
