Canada needs to learn from U.S. Federal Reserve’s mistakes
The next financial crisis is coming, sooner more likely than later. And Canada has no reason to be complacent, given its own vulnerabilities.
Empowering Workers
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Poverty strategy requires more resources and more ambitious goals
We should be very careful to recognize that poverty has many dimensions that can only be understood through multiple indicators, and that political commitments must extend to resources and not just targets.
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Talk of “the end of jobs” hides real labour market issues
The problem with the “end of jobs” narrative is that it disarms us by suggesting that massive technological forces out of our control are most to blame for our problems. That is not the case.
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Christy Clark’s inaction on housing affordability speaks volumes
With families struggling to afford increasing rents, more and more children are growing up in poverty.
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Towards a new Canadian trade strategy
Development of a new trade agenda should certainly be on the agenda of labour and the left.
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Reflections on the labour movement and social democracy
For workers, trade unions and social democrats, the answer to achieving greater social justice is in imagining a closer relationship between social democracy, trade unions and the state.
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Why the Nordic social democratic model can’t be implemented from Ottawa
Creating the social partnership that is the core of social democracy—in the Nordic model, anyway—is a provincial undertaking which can greatly benefit from a strong federal ally.
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Ordinary Canadians should support closing private corporation tax loophole
The top 1% of individual taxpayers receive almost all of the benefit of the stock options deduction and 87.4% of the benefit of the capital gains deduction.
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The case for raising the minimum wage
What we need is higher productivity in low wage industries, and a higher minimum wage floor will help to do the job.
