Class & Climate: Moving Canada for Climate Action with Blandine Sebileau
Equiterre’s Sustainable Mobility Analyst shows how clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.
Decommodification
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Designing a Rights-Based National Child Care Strategy: Lessons from Europe
Although economic uncertainty through the present crisis makes it challenging to envision a more ambitious national child care system, we should not be deterred in this goal to decommodify care.
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Home Truths: A Practical Policy Toolkit for Fixing the Housing Crisis
In ‘Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis’ Carolyn Whitzman finds opportunities for hope in outlining a path towards housing for all across Canada.
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Power for the Public with Edgardo Sepulveda
Regulatory economist and consultant Edgardo Sepulveda joins the Perspectives Journal Podcast to explain what it will take to bring power back into the public interest in Alberta.
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Why Canadians are Stuck Waiting for the Bus with Nate Wallace
Investment in public transit has weakened, ridership has stalled as commuters are forced to drive, and the economy loses billions in lost productivity.
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Why all Canadians Need Decommodified Reproductive Healthcare
In Canada, reproductive healthcare is deeply commodified, affecting access to resources from contraception to fertility treatments. Canadians tend to pride themselves on being “better” than their southern neighbours, but in this instance, being better is not good enough.
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Activists Make History: Winning Renters’ Rights with Chiara Padovani
Chiara Padovani details her political journey in organizing renters and defending tenant rights against the encroachment of for-profit interests in housing.
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Opening the Black Box: Nursing Agencies in Canada with Joan Almost
Private nursing agencies are but a band-aid solution to health care staffing shortages, while costs balloon for our public health care systems.
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Corporate Tax Breaks, Housing Heartbreaks with Silas Xuereb
Silas Xuereb offers a rundown on how the Canadian government is deepening the housing crisis through poorly designed tax systems and unchecked regulation of real estate investment.
