Walking With Giants: How Economic Thought and Policy Evolves
Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow on the Future for Workers – Recipient of the 2023 Galbraith Prize in Economics This lecture was delivered on May 31, 2024, at the Canadian Economics…
June 2024
May 30: The Day Justice Prevailed
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. Thirty-four criminal charges and found guilty for every one of them. Thirty four! Of course, I don’t have to tell…
You can’t turn back the clock on genocide
Black smoke rises in Gaza in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images. As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital…
Politics can be civilized
A message that dropped into my in-basket this week provided one of those moments that buoys your hope for humanity. And it was a political message at that. As a…
To those attacking Doug Ford for saying the truth
To pretend that those behind the explosion in antisemitism share our values is to be deeply stupid. They clearly don’t, whoever they are. Shooting up schools and firebombing places of…
Truth in advertising? Forget about it, says the UCP, assailing Bill C-59 ‘gag order’ in overwrought screed
Say what you will about Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, you have to admire their sheer brass. Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay (Photo: Facebook/Charlie Angus). Consider the…