Author: Harry Glasbeek
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Trump’s Threats, Canadian Challenges
Former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau once said that the Canada-US relationship resembled a mouse sleeping with an elephant: “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I … Keep reading »
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Lock-Outs: The newly embedded right to strike turns out to be a retractable privilege
In Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley wrote: “There are more ways to kill a cat than choking it with cream.” What he left unsaid is that, no matter how you do … Keep reading »
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The Two Faces of Government ‘Largesse’
Vulgar political partisanship and crass hand-outs to corporate welfare bums. Keep reading »
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Whose Side is the Law Always On? University of Toronto Palestine Solidarity Encampment
The University of Toronto won an injunction from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (on Tuesday July 2nd) which requires pro-Palestine demonstrators to take down the physical structures they erected … Keep reading »
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Law At Work: Class, Property, Capitalism
This essay is an excerpt from Harry Glasbeek’s new book Law At Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, Between the Lines, 2024. For thousands of years, workers … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: Law at Work, with Harry Glasbeek
Book launch of Harry Glasbeek’s Law at Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, in Toronto, May 2024. Author and renowned legal scholar Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law … Watch video »
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Recent Subsidies: The Deification of Capitalism and the assault on all that Matters
On 6 July, 2023, Canadians watching the news were regaled with pictures of beaming federal and provincial politicians, flanked by some rich people who looked sober and content. The viewers … Keep reading »
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Ford, CUPE, Class Struggle and the Charter: A Primer
Why do workers strike? In Canada, our fundamental political economic premise is that, if all individuals decide for themselves how to deploy their resources and talents, the best use will … Keep reading »
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Striking Down Farm Workers – It Is the Law’s Way
These days we hear and read a lot about essential workers. It is not always clear whether workers ought to be characterized as essential ones, but there can be little … Keep reading »
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Canada’s Eviscerated Democracy: Minority Government and Representative Democracy as Symptoms
On 20 September, 2021, Canadians voted to hold the line. While forty seats changed hands, the number of seats won by each of the parties was so close to the … Keep reading »
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GameStop and Share Markets: Between the Bad and the Ugly, There is No Good
The recent GameStop story coming out of the US pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling … Keep reading »
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Sick and Tired of Virus Banalities
Everyone has seen those cheesy T-shirts which say, “My grandmother went to Tahiti and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.” One of our friends went to Venice and brought … Keep reading »