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.
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The Alt-Right’s Co-Optation of Wellness Subculture at the Intersection of Health, Purity, and Ideology
The wellness to alt-right pipeline continues to draw more and more who fall outside of the shrinking net of collective care into movements that threaten democratic institutions and community wellbeing. Governments need to stop the erosion of institutions of community care.
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Private Equity and Health Care: Should Canadians be concerned?
An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corporate practice of medicine.
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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.
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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?
