Category: Poverty
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UBI Without Public Services is a Neoliberal’s Paradise
From tech-billionaires to socialist leaders, Universal Basic Income (UBI) has caught the imagination of many across the political spectrum. This mechanism, which would give everyone regular cash payments that are … Keep reading »
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Struggles in the Shadow of the Pandemic
It is a principle of historical materialism that social consciousness reflects social being and it is, therefore, inevitable that the former will tend to lag behind the latter. At a … Keep reading »
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The Pandemic Kills the Poor: Inequality Will Kill Them Even More
In just over four months, COVID-19 has become the fastest-growing known global health crisis to date. Various systemic biological, political and public health factors have converged to make this happen: … Keep reading »
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Existential Despair
Decades ago, Edward Said remarked that contemporary life is characterized by a “generalized condition of homelessness.” Decades earlier, Martin Heidegger had written that “Homelessness is coming to be the destiny … Keep reading »
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Disabled People Under Attack
In December, Ontario’s Auditor-General, Bonnie Lysyk, issued a report that offers the province’s right wing Tory government an opportunity to attack disabled people living in poverty. Her report paints a … Keep reading »
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If Housing is a Right We Should Take It
In Toronto and across Canada, homelessness has reached proportions that no rational and just society would tolerate and it constitutes an emergency situation. The Trump Administration, seeing levels of destitution … Keep reading »
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Holding Pens for the Homeless
Homelessness is spinning out of control in many places, not least right here in Toronto. However, in California, the situation is now generating an acute political crisis. So great is … Keep reading »
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A Knapsack Full of Dreams /w Cathy Crowe
Cathy Crowe discusses her book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse and Canada’s 21st century homelessness crisis. Over the past three decades, a series of federal … Watch video »
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A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams
Cathy Crowe’s book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto … Keep reading »
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Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy
It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the “unemployables” have … Keep reading »
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A Tale of Two Austerities
The UK’s brutal austerity regime is acting as a template for similar programmes across the Atlantic in Canada, reports John Clarke. Keep reading »
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A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities famously opens with the lines “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, … Keep reading »