Critical Mass
The “embers of the mass party” may still smolder, and this policy debate shows that there is a desire to reignite those flames.
Organizing Strategy and Tactics
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Québec’s Pragmatic Utopians
Under its new leadership, Québec solidaire may be able to capture the imaginations of progressive Quebecers ahead of the 2026 general election.
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Closing the Gap: Grassroots Organizing and Policy Making for Housing in Canada
The housing crisis in Canada is too large, entrenched, and politically complex to solve with siloed strategies.
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Activists Make History: Campaigning for Progress with Alexa Gilmour
The first-time candidate for Parkdale–High Park says progressive campaigning can be the antidote for despair.
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From Marketing to Movement-Building: Ground Game and Community Organizing in Party Politics
It’s been said that “the ground game can only take you so far”. But what if the right kind of ground game can count for more than we realize?
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Activists Make History: Organizing the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada with Angela Drew Kimelman
The Mississauga warehouse union drive has shown to be a catalyst for labour organizing in warehouses across the country, with momentum swinging towards the working-class.
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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan
‘Care Activism’ challenges the stereotype of a downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational imagined community of care workers and their families.
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Everyday Care Activism
Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists go beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures.
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Reflecting on Ocasio-Cortez and a bold opportunity for democratic socialist organizing in Canada
People want to be given something to fight for, something that inspires them, that makes them go out and vote, that makes them believe in the political system again.
