Category: Public Goods
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Start Early, Stay Late: Planning for Care /w Pat and Hugh Armstrong
The lines between for-profit and not have become increasingly blurred by various neoliberal strategies. One of these involves non-profit and state-owned homes contracting out services to for-profit firms as – … Watch video »
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Laurentian University Insolvency Reflects a Structural Crisis in Ontario’s Neoliberal University System
Ontario governments have reduced their public grants for university operating revenues from a level at about 80% in 1980 to around 50% in 2004, and to only 38% in 2017. Keep reading »
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Anti-Privatization Movements in the Global South: P3s and Women's Human Rights
On March 29, 2021, we caught up with Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, researchers with Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) “a network of feminist … Keep reading »
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Doug Ford and the PCs Plan Another Decade of Austerity
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases … Keep reading »
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Shifting Gears: Labour Strategies for Low-Cost Public Transit Mobility
Writing in the 2021 Socialist Register, Sean Sweeney and John Treat call for a major shift in transport policy: a break from the model of development centered on private personal … Watch video »
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Why Big Pharma’s Arguments Against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up
While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits. Keep reading »
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The Geopolitics of Vaccine Apartheid
On 22 April, Earth Day, US President Joe Biden convened a summit on the climate crisis with the heads of several important countries. While this was an attempt to bring … Keep reading »
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TRIPS Waiver & Libertarian Brain Rot
TSS digs through a libertarian Financial Post article opposing a TRIPS waiver for COVID vaccines, discuss the public research origin of COVID vaccines, and dissect Biden’s puzzling tentative support for a patent waiver. Listen to audio »
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Subjects of the New Corporate University: The Sabotage of Laurentian University
At about 10:28 p.m. on Sunday May 3rd, the other shoe dropped. Insolvency Court Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz gave Laurentian University’s president what he had wished for: a ruling in … Keep reading »
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The Care Economy Statement
If COVID-19 has taught us nothing else, it is that we need a new approach to caring for each other in this country. And there is no better time to … Keep reading »
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A People’s Public Transport Policy
Public transport is a vital service relied upon by millions of people all over the world. It is strategically important in the economic and social life of cities. Public transport … Keep reading »
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A Complete Turnaround of the Transport Sector is Absolutely Imperative
In order to fight climate change the whole system of transportation has to be reversed and reconstructed as it is currently responsible for one fifth (in some countries up to … Keep reading »