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.
Empowering Workers
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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.
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A Green New Deal to Fight Trump’s Trade War
The fight against Trump’s tariffs is a chance for Canada to lead by aligning clean energy with strong communities, empowered workers, and a high-road industrial strategy that delivers for working people.
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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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Genuine Democracy in an Age of Hyper-Individualism – 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture
The 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by Grace Blakeley, illustrating why neoliberal capitalism has overruled democracy and why we must organize to take back democratic power for the working-class.
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A New Deal for Progressive Trade
Beth Baltzan lays out the original vision for progressive international trade and demonstrates why today’s trade regime enables Trump’s tariffs.
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Class & Climate: Union Power with Brandon Dyck, IBEW
The energy transition runs on union power. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is one of the labour unions that will generate the electricity needed to seize the potential and jobs of a just transition.
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Class & Climate: Building a Green Workforce with Lindsay Amundsen
Lindsay Amundsen of Canada’s Building Trades Unions explains what a just transition really means for workers—and how union-led training programs are preparing the workforce for the green economy.
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The Monopoly Problem at the Heart of Canada’s Food System
While the ongoing cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians has been provoked by recent global events, the consolidation of the Canadian food system has been a long-running and strenuous process.
