Category: Public Goods
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The Case For Keeping Our Hydro Utilities Public
Most people don’t pay much attention to electricity, except when the lights are out or when they get their bill. But, they soon will. The most valuable asset in virtually … Keep reading »
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Launch of Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms, Health Under Capitalism
Part 1: A panel discussion with contributing authors: Colin Leys (Health, health care and capitalism), Pat Armstrong (Contradictions at work: struggles for control in Canadian health care), Roddy Loepky (Certain wealth: Accumulation in the health industry). Part 2: Commentators: Dr Andy Coates (Physicians for a National Health Program, Co-Chair, Single Payer New York) and Natalie (Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition). Watch video »
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Morbid Symptoms: Current Healthcare Struggles
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys have just brought out the 2010 annual volume of the Socialist Register, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism, published by Merlin Press in London, Monthly Review … Keep reading »
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What’s Wrong with Ontario’s Health Ministry and How to Fix It
Health Minister David Caplan’s resignation is the right thing in the wake of scathing Provincial Auditor’s reports and repeated exorbitant salary revelations at the Ministry of Health (MOH). Undoubtedly in … Keep reading »
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Demanding the Impossible: Struggles for the Future of Post-Secondary Education
There is growing acknowledgement emerging from student and faculty associations across Canada that there is a crisis in post-secondary education and a need for real change in the structure of … Keep reading »
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After B.C. Health Services: Back to Reality
“As a power countervailing management the trade unions are much more effective than the law has ever been or can ever be.” — Otto Kahn-Freund In the deteriorating economic climate, … Keep reading »
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Labour Turmoil and the Fight for Public Education
Over the last three decades, the post-secondary education sector in Canada has been consistently undermined by a crisis of under-funding. Provincial and federal governments have followed neoliberal policies which seek … Keep reading »
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The Neoliberal University: Looking at the York Strike
Placed neatly in the middle of a global economic maelstrom, it is near impossible to understand or predict what, if any, consequences the strike by 3500 odd teaching and research … Keep reading »
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What Emergency? An Assessment of Toronto’s 2008 Transit Strike
Last weekend’s two-day transit strike in Toronto raises anew and in starker terms two issues of longstanding concern to the labour movement in this city and throughout the province. First, … Keep reading »
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The Poverty of Ontario’s Liberals: The 2008 Budget
The 2008 Ontario budget is a particularly revealing political statement. Until now, the McGuinty Liberals have had a comparatively stable economy to contend with. Year after year since 2003, they … Keep reading »
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Budget 2008: Taxes and the Forward March of Neoliberalism
Budgets are fundamentally political instruments. They reflect clearly who in society is winning, who is losing, and who is left standing still. They are a kind of political scoreboard. Canada’s … Keep reading »
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Ontario and the Funding of Religious Schools
In what might turn to be the defining issue of the Ontario provincial election set for October 10, Conservative leader John Tory proposed that faith-based schools be fully funded. In … Keep reading »