Alberta’s Electricity Deregulation and Data Centre Gamble
New U.S. evidence demonstrates that data centres raise retail electricity prices in deregulated markets. This is bad news for Alberta’s data centre ambitions.
Economics for the Working-Class
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The Price of a Promise
Since money always enables a claim on real resources, it provides power in the real world. How it does so, however, is a complicated story mediated by legal and political institutions.
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Unpaid Work Won’t Fly: How Air Canada Flight Attendants Organized
Flight attendants forced their employers back to the bargaining table to end unpaid work and negotiate for fair wages.
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Editorial – Summer 2026
The Canadian left needs confidence, a feeling of trust and certainty in self and in others, to restart from scratch and learn to use this hyperpolitical moment.
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Why Does Canada Develop Megaprojects Instead of Innovation Systems?
Canada’s political economy is characterized by the “staple trap” — a longstanding struggle to develop systems of complementary technology and industries against the pull of resource extraction lock-in.
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George Hara Williams: CCF Architect
Learn about the the oft-forgotten architect of the Saskatchewan CCF, who laid the organizational groundwork that brought the first social democratic government in North America to power.
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Market Socialism Against Capitalism – 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture
The 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by Bhaskar Sunkara, who demonstrated a new vision for building economic democracy, removed from market dependence or centralized planning.
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École Sociale Populaire: Quebec’s Social Democratic Tradition
Learn about the unique Catholic roots of Quebec’s social democratic tradition.
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Ernest Winch & Harold Winch: BC’s Radical Father-Son Duo
Meet the radical father-son duo who became two of British Columbia’s left-wing pioneers.
