Building health: Canada’s opportunity to improve housing affordability
Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes. Adequate financial investments and ambition are required to achieve this.
Rights and Democracy
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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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Globalization, democracy and Robert Kuttner
By decommodifying health services, pensions, the right to unions, and other social services, they showed that with political will in these aspects of life the power of the market could be and should be broken if real democracy is to be achieved.
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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.
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Securitization and the Muslim community in Canada
A closer look at how securitization is constructed is necessary if we are to contextualize how national security policy has specially targeted Canadian Muslims.
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What we can learn from the Oshawa General Motors announcement
Canadians—and people of all nations—must ask themselves at what point does the concentration of economic power threaten, not just a couple thousand jobs in Oshawa, but the very basis of our sovereignty and democracy?
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Capitalism’s continued crisis
The global economy has to be seen, not so much as a set of discrete national economies trading with each other, but as a vast “macro financial” web of corporate balance sheets and financial flows.
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Implementing a Disability Justice Framework: an interview with Sarah Jama
Our mission is to build a just and accessible Ontario — where people with disabilities have personal and political agency.
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Doug Ford’s decision to slash Toronto City Council is a call to action for progressives
We can’t give up the fight to define our own political rules, that is why every procedural, legal and organizing strategy is being deployed to challenge the Conservative takeover of Toronto’s elections.
