Completing the promise of Medicare
As the federal government thinks about how to fill the holes in our social safety net that the pandemic has revealed, the creation of universal Pharmacare should be top of the priority list.
Opinion
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One lesson from the pandemic: Canada needs to rebuild manufacturing
Canadian governments will have to maximize industrial job creation here in Canada, and they will have to perhaps stand strong in the face of WTO or European protests in order to do so.
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COVID-19 is not the great leveller, it’s the great revealer
Now that we are collectively facing a health risk that is spreading across space, we’ve been given the opportunity for empathy with many people who individually confront risks that repeat over and over again during the course of their lives.
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Financing the war against COVID-19
There should be no fiscal restraints on the needed response to the pandemic crisis, and we need to also ensure that we avoid another round of austerity when the economy recovers.
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Let’s shore up workers today while thinking of the future in light of COVID-19
We must come to terms with the crisis before the crisis— the steady rise in very insecure and low paid work which leaves far too many individuals and families one pay cheque away from disaster.
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Reflecting on Ocasio-Cortez and a bold opportunity for democratic socialist organizing in Canada
People want to be given something to fight for, something that inspires them, that makes them go out and vote, that makes them believe in the political system again.
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When income tax cuts leave you worse off
The real fiscal choice in the election is between tax cuts which deliver small benefits to many, or ambitious investments in public services which deliver a much bigger and fairer bang for the fiscal buck.
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A Green New Deal, trade and investment deals, and Canadian jobs
A Green New Deal in Canada will be a much more powerful tool for good job creation if twinned to an industrial strategy. But this will require a government prepared to push the limits and challenge the current rules of the game.
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Shifting to the centre is no way to fight right-wing populism
The problem with this narrative that elections are won by appealing to the mushy centre is that it fails to come to grips with the electoral appeal of Donald Trump and other right-wing populist.
