PRAXIS: Unifying Canadian Left Fronts

This month, we'll be digging into what comes next —both on and off Parliament Hill— for rebuilding the Green Party and the NDP.

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This post is a follow-up to 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now.

The mainstream narrative loves to invoke figures like Albert Einstein, MLK Jr, and Nelson Mandela, yet it always ends up whitewashing their radical beliefs. ...

Reckoning with journalism’s role and responsibility in trans genocides past and present

An excerpt adapted from chapter one of Red Flags: A Reckoning With Communism for the Future of the Left

Four years after two incarcerated men sought ways to help their peers face mental health issues, Los Angeles County is expanding their successful efforts.

Canadian media is already letting us down and it's only the early days of this Mark Carney Liberal government. I discuss a recent interview on CTV conducted ...

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The election is over, but the fight isn’t. Here’s what’s at stake now—and why our work together matters more than ever.

OTTAWA — While the recent federal election turned into a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives that left other parties trailing far behind, a new poll suggests most Canadians don't want the country end up with a two-party system.

AI replacing workers, ICE detaining protesters, libraries defunded for being “woke”—and a banker becomes Canada’s new PM. This is what collapse looks like wh...

U.S. President Trump’s imposition of 25% tariffs on most imports from Canada will cause severe economic dislocation across Canada. Hopefully, a combination of negotiations backed by counter-measures announced by Canada will succeed in removing the tariffs in coming months. However, Trump’s actions have permanently damaged the credibility of any Canadian economic strategy based on continental free trade. In this commentary, originally published in the Toronto Star, Centre for Future Work Director Jim Stanford argues Canada needs to develop a new ‘National Policy’: one focused first and foremost on developing Canadian industries and capacities....

The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Isabella Weber, demonstrating how economic shocks and corporate profits have affected our affordability crisis. From gas to groceries, this lecture provides valuable context and a policy toolkit for helping ordinary Canadians through economic crisis.

As workers and as citizens, we have the right to demand better. We urge you to read this report, share it widely, and join us in the fight for an electricity system that serves the public interest.

Fraser has argued that much scholarship in political science and democratic theory on these issues is hampered by “politicism”: an inclination to view the political in separation from other social spheres, which fails to appreciate the structural nature of contemporary crises. Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised, however it needs to be situated within a broader understanding of the social totality to understand how it is affected by crisis dynamics in other spheres and how it might contribute to attenuating, or resolving, these.

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While DEI programs may on the surface seem focused on certain groups, in fact they benefit people from all walks of life.

Kurt Gray believes that by shifting our thinking from right and wrong to “harm,” we can feel less outrage and understand each other better.

For International Women's Day, we gathered articles that aim to help women take care of themselves and each other, make a living, raise children, and work for equality.

When racism revealed itself in her seemingly "safe" community, Christine Koh found a different way to respond.

In light of attacks on DEI, we gathered articles that lay out the evidence in favor of fostering racially diverse and equitable schools, workplaces, cities, and societies.

Researchers explain how Ontario's Basic Income Pilot affected people's mental health—and what happened when it was cancelled early.

The rebels, dissenters, "reactionaries," and "deviants" of the world may be the ones who help communities and societies become better.