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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
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.
Black life and the myth of Sisyphus
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The meaning of the third of November to the Negro
Photo credit: Lorie Shall, Flickr Creative Commons I started writing this column on September 18 as my social media feed filled with posts about National…
A litany of reports, but little accountability for police violence against Black Canadians
When it comes to anti-Black racism in Canadian policing, we don’t have an information gap, we have a police accountability gap. I’m reminded of this…
What kind of normal do we want? A response.
In a column published on the IRIS blog and translated for the CCPA’s Behind The Numbers blog, Guillaume Hébert says that the COVID-19 crisis marks…
The house that debt built
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Ford’s “value-for-money” audit a political trick with predictable outcome
Paul Martin, David Cameron, Kathleen Wynne and Doug Ford all sought external legitimation for austerity.
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