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COVID-19: It’s a different story for high-income earners
There is a lot of money in this country, much of it in Ontario. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has redistributed it upwards. With the Ontario budget just…
Why the next Ontario budget must redistribute wealth
These days it’s a trite observation to say that COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on just how unequal life in Ontario is. Some people have…
The Monitor, March/April 2021
One year later Download 5.4 MB “More than an infectious pathogen,” writes Michal Rozworski in his feature analysis for this issue, “the novel coronavirus is…
The decline of collectivity
The glue that holds any society together is faith that institutions, no matter how flawed, will always be committed to serving and protecting people from poverty, unemployment, sickness, and other afflictions. In Canada, that glue is coming unstuck.
Our “right to housing” needs some teeth
While homeless encampments serve as some of the most jarring visual depictions of Canada’s housing crisis, they are not the only manifestation of the problem.
Waiting to count
We know the value of disaggregated data. So why are 2SLGBTQQIA+ experiences still missing from government data collection?
No plan, big problem
The pandemic response is showing that undermining state planning capacity for four decades has resulted in states with low planning capacity. Who could have expected this?
Nothing about us without us
After a year of seeing the racially-lopsided impacts of the pandemic in Canada I think that the framework I proposed in my October 2019 TEDxToronto talk is ripe for reconsideration.
When it mattered most
How Canada’s decades-old digital divide left communities disconnected during COVID-19
Province has fiscal room to stop the suffering and serve the public interest
Austerity during a time of economic crisis is more damaging than previously thought, still, Manitoba continues apace with its privatization agenda.
Building on, and honouring, the Monitor’s past
Introducing the new Editor of the Monitor and celebrating the magazine’s rich history.
COVID-19: Neoliberalism’s Chernobyl
COVID-19 has been called neoliberalism’s Chernobyl with good cause. The capacity of our public system to adapt in the face of a sudden and major threat had been all but undermined by four decades of underfunding, leaving the hollowed out remains scrambling to adjust course.
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