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Envisioning a well-being economy: inspiration and hard questions
Another world is possible—let’s imagine what it looks like
Insights into a well-being economy
How could we reorganize Alberta’s economy to serve the needs to the people and the land?
After neoliberalism, a progressive globalization?
The institutions of global economic governance can be retooled to advance social and environmental justice
Electrifying North American trade
The Biden administration wants to continentalize America’s green industrial renewal. There are risks and potential rewards for Canada.
Hate the high cost of rent? Blame the 1990s.
Bewildered by the high cost of housing? Wondering how we got to this place in Canada? To understand why we’re here now, we need to look back thirty years to policy decisions being made in the early 1990s.
The devil’s crowbar: how the right weaponizes inflation
The brand of turbo-charged capitalism that we call “neoliberalism” arrived in North America on a rising tide of inflation.
The politics of inflation: The good, bad and the ugly
It has been a long, long time since Canadians had to worry about high inflation
Power, profit, and the politics of inflation
The Consumer Price Index (the major measure of inflation) rose 8.1 per cent in June compared to last year—the biggest jump in almost 40 years.
The great unaffordable North
Inflation is coupled with wildfires and loss of infrastructure to create an affordability problem unlike anywhere else in Canada
Inflation and the general ineffectiveness of monetary policy
There is no denying that inflation has become a major economic and political problem, reaching almost double digits in many industrialized countries. Canadians hear about it, and we certainly see it at the pumps and in the grocery stores, with many increasingly struggling to meet their weekly and monthly expenses. The fundamental question that we must ask now is what can our institutions do to bring inflation back down?
The financialization of rental housing in Canada
Canada is experiencing a permanent rental housing affordability crisis, which has only intensified since the COVID-19 pandemic began. At the same time, we’re seeing a greater consolidation of rental housing apartments by financial firms, accelerating the “financialization of rental housing,” a trend underway in Canada since the 1990s.
Cost of food at a crisis level
As we grapple with yet another wave of COVID, the parallel poverty crisis in Toronto has been exacerbated past its breaking point and will have enduring societal impacts.
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