Category: Public Goods
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Paris in Transit: A Few Snapshots
In early December 2016, the Paris region suffered from the most intense bout of small particle pollution in a decade. Anticyclonic weather (cold air under a cover of hotter air … Keep reading »
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Referendums and Social Movements in Italy and Europe
Matteo Renzi’s recent attempt to constitutionally embed neoliberalism and simultaneously legitimize and secure his tenure as Prime Minister via a referendum on proposed changes to Italy’s postwar constitution failed spectacularly … Keep reading »
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The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Theft by Deception
Both the Liberal government and its Advisory Council on Economic Growth are head-over-heels for the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), announcing with fresh-faced enthusiasm that it will be an innovative route … Keep reading »
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Protesting the Capitalist University
The University of Manitoba is on strike. Since 1st November, more than 1,200 faculty members took to the picket line to protest the lack of funding for education, a need … Keep reading »
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Violence Against Healthcare Workers: A Canadian Experience
According to healthcare workers interviewed this past year by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the health and wellbeing of the individuals devoted to … Keep reading »
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The Traffic Hierarchy
One is not born a motorist, one becomes one. Mobility and class are deeply entangled. Not only because one’s potential for mobility often has to do with one’s economic position, but … Keep reading »
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Free Public Transit
Video is now private. Public transit lies at the intersection of several critical social struggles today. Affordable (or free) public transit is an important mechanism for redistribution, and particularly targets … Watch video »
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How Not To Fund Infrastructure
Recycling is supposed to be a good thing, so when the federal Liberals quietly announced that “asset recycling” would be part of their strategy for meeting their much-ballyhooed infrastructure promises, … Keep reading »
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Whose Right to the City?
Toronto — 18 March 2016. Earlier this year, the journal Alternate Routes organized a conference on the theme “Sub/Urbanizing Austerity: Impacts and Alternatives.” The following presentation is from panel four … Watch video »
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Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto
City Manager Peter Wallace recently released a report on The City of Toronto’s Long-term Financial Direction. The analysis is the latest to reinforce what many earlier studies have long been … Keep reading »
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Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
João Tonucci and André Veloso interviewed by Stefan Kipfer The current conflagration of the Dilma Rousseff government notwithstanding, Brazil has been an inspiring source of debate for the global left over … Keep reading »
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Ontario Government Program Spending is far Lower than the Rest of Canada
The Ontario government spent 1.6 per cent less of provincial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to the other provinces in 2010-11. With sharp cutbacks in Ontario, that gap had increased … Keep reading »