Wellness and the Working-Class: The Artifice of Benefits under Capitalism
Wellness Spending Accounts (WSAs) first-and-foremost enhance the “bottom line” at the expense of the working-class.
Decommodification
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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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Femininity, Hyper-Commodified: Consumerism, Social Media, and Beauty Standards
Profits become supreme despite the enabling of a destructive culture of consumption around physical appearance, the erosion of the gains of feminist movements where looks are made more valuable than liberation, and where youth conceptualise ageing as an aesthetic problem rather than a wonderful part of life’s journey.
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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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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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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies
NDP members voted to withdraw support for the Liberal Confidence and Supply Agreement in Parliament if Pharmacare is not implemented. After the vote, what’s next?
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Community land trusts: enabling Black-led housing solutions
From affordable home-ownership programs and housing for intergenerational households, to culturally informed supportive housing for Black people leaving homelessness and the gentrification antidote that community land trusts can be, People of African descent in Canada must be afforded the opportunities and resources to participate in the decisions that impact our lives and to build the…
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Falling short on the National Housing Strategy
The success of any policy initiative, particularly one as important and complex as a national strategy, lies in the details of how promises and programmes are delivered.
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The case against privatization and P3s
At this moment of deep political convulsion throughout the West, the fight against privatization is part of a broader struggle against the economic logic that has led to corrosive inequality and underpinned the bankrupt neoliberal economic paradigm.
