Challenging Corporate Power to fix Affordability with Jim Stanford
Jim Stanford talks through the shortcomings of Canadian federal policies in easing the cost of living crisis and shows how organized labour is supporting the working-class.
Affordability
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A Progressive Solution to Canada’s “Productivity” Crisis with Angella MacEwen
Highlighting the power of human and social capital, Angella MacEwen offers an alternative path to boosting Canadian productivity.
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Defending Workers from Inflation, AI and the Affordability Crisis with Kaylie Tiessen
Facing the increasing risk presented by AI amid crises, Unifor’s research department has been on the frontlines developing new strategies to defend workers against precarity.
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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers
According to the data, more and more new housing is being purchased without the intention of being the home that the buyer lives in.
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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen
In today’s apparently well-performing capitalist economy, working-class ordinary Canadians aren’t feeling like they live in a “Good Society” and acutely feel these economic pressures.
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Addressing the Rise of Investor Ownership of Housing, Part 1: Assessing the Scale and Impacts across Canada
Ownership of housing is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of wealthy Canadians, fostering a worsening status quo for everyone else.
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Competition and Co-ops: MP Dan Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act
What will this amended piece of legislation do for ordinary, working-class Canadians to make groceries affordable again, and does it go far enough? How has market concentration contributed to higher grocery receipts? Why should incentives for building more co-op housing be included in the final version of the bill?
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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman
Why not talk about housing in terms of industrial strategy and the role of government in building more housing supply, instead of trying to outflank Pierre Poilievre’s inconsistent policy slogans from the right wing?
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Housing and the Contradictions of Conventional Economics
Ordinary Canadians will certainly feel the heat from the price of housing when monetary policy adds fuel to the fire while their pay cheques freeze.
