Category: Public Goods
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Housing, Pensions, and Jobs: Win-Win-Win
Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university degrees are all essential to securing … Keep reading »
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Rethinking the ‘Indian International Student Crisis’
In downtown Toronto, whether it’s the chime of an app alert or the hum of two wheels weaving through rush-hour traffic, the faces you see delivering food, stocking shelves, and … Keep reading »
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Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague
The horrors of fascism have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical amnesia, infiltrating schools, universities, and the public sphere through state violence, … Keep reading »
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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 »