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.
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.
‘May Our Joy Endure’ is a timely cultural intervention — a scathing yet beautifully crafted critique of Québec’s elite and the forces of gentrification.
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.
Regardless of one’s governing model, control over interjurisdictional capital flows is a necessary condition for genuinely democratic policy-making.
Volatile, short term and footloose private capital is supplanting stable, long-term public financing which is crucial for long-term economic and social development, and for climate investments.
Progressives should consider creating and developing their own “zones” for building democratic power, putting into practice social democratic values. Through these islands of social democracy, the diffusion of democratic power could be incubated and seeded to propagate widely as neoliberal systems wither and fail.
Canadians are right to be concerned about corporate control of data, algorithmically worsening inequality, and the role of tech companies in disempowering workers.
For decades, social democrats have championed industrial policy, prioritizing the governance of the economy and market regulation as a way to build a more just and democratic society.
Two important books from Lorimer Press highlight the insidious impact of neoliberalism on Canada’s political, social, and economic landscape, detailing its roots, devastating results, and the urgent need for democratic renewal and progressive reform.