Category: Public Goods
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Alberta is Privatizing Healthcare: Threatening Public Healthcare Across Canada
Alberta’s government, led by Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, passed a new law, Bill 11: The Health Statutes Amendment Act, last week. With its passage the existential threat … Keep reading »
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Ontario Government is Privatizing Surgeries While Pushing Public Hospitals into Deficit
Ontario’s public hospitals have been pushed into deficit and ordered to find cuts, while the government of Doug Ford shunts hundreds of millions of public dollars away from them to … Keep reading »
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Patients Demand Government Reimburse Wrongful Charges at Ford’s Private Clinics
Patients who have been wrongfully charged for surgeries and diagnostic tests at private clinics were joined by more than 160 supporters at the Ontario Legislature on October 29 for a … Keep reading »
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The Crisis at Canada Post
With its recent announcement to ‘modernize’ Canada Post, the Mark Carney government has, for all intents and purposes, dusted off the Harper-era “Five Point Action Plan” aimed at gutting the … Keep reading »
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Mobility as a Project for a Dignified Life
“What best defines public transport today is exhaustion.” This is the opening quote of the documentary short film Tarifa Zero: cidade em disputa (Fare-Free Public Transport: An Urban Battle), summing … Keep reading »
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Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration … Keep reading »
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SR 2025: Openings and Closures. Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads
Since the 2016 upsurge in enthusiasm for electoral organizing and party-building, the terrain has shifted. It was not so long ago that a new wave of democratic socialist organizing exploded … Watch video »
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Nurse-Patient Ratios: Saving Lives and Rebuilding Nurses’ Morale
“I have anxiety and feelings of guilt that I should have done more, but I can’t. I can only do so much.” A new academic study is proposing a bold … Keep reading »
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Health Inequalities and Capitalism in Canada
Excerpted and adapted from Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective (Chapter 6), Fernwood Publishing, 2025. See video of booklaunch in Toronto. Drawing inspiration from Engels (1845), … Keep reading »
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Booklaunch: Health and Health Care Inequities
The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host the Toronto launch of Health and Health Care Inequities by author and healthcare worker Arnel Borras. The book provides … Watch video »
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Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Education
Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history. Keep reading »
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The Ontario Healthcare Crisis
This article is based on a chapter in the upcoming new book Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario edited by Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli. The book … Keep reading »