The Power of Public Ownership with Angella MacEwen
CUPE’s Senior Economist explains how public ownership and public investment are necessary for a productive economy.
Decommodification
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Back to the Future: Razing the Welfare State’s Third Pillar in the United States
The second Trump administration’s attacks on the welfare state go beyond deregulation: the goal is to obliterate it.
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The Temptations of Trite: How Policymakers Avoid Addressing Homelessness as a Structural Challenge
Where governments deny homelessness exists, researchers and advocates need to guide the changes and make the right to adequate housing a reality.
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Tenant Rights and Union Power with Sharlene Henry
This Toronto-based organizer connects labour and tenant struggles, and explains why union solidarity is central to winning affordable housing.
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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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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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Public Education at the Tipping Point
Hear from frontline educators at the 2025 Progress Summit on what’s driving the crisis and how we can defend democracy by fighting for strong, inclusive, and well-funded schools.
