No victory in defeat
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath speaking during the party’s campaign kick-off event in Hamilton, April 2018. She announced her pending resignation as ONDP leader on June 2, 2022. Photo by…
David Moscrop
The hopeless malaise of the Ontario election
Progressive Conservative Party leader Doug Ford. Photo courtesy QP Briefing. Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives spent the election in Ontario hiding from protestors, the press, and the public. Ahead…
Moving beyond the centrist consensus in Election 44
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole pose with TVA moderator Pierre Bruneau before the French language election…
Canada’s in a prolonged housing crisis. There’s one trick to getting out of it: Build more (non-market) housing
Each of the major national parties have housing plans that purport to address the housing crisis through a mix of supply and demand side measures. Photo by Scott Webb/Unsplash. The…
Skipping to the apocalypse
A family pose outside of a prefabricated fallout shelter, 1962. Today, survival shelters are back in vogue, particularly among the billionaire class, to stave off the ramifications of new threats…
The billionaire space race is an exploitative, wasteful farce
Hoping for material good to come from a private space race is a long and risky bet being made by the self-interest of billionaires driven by ego and the profit…
Fixing the housing crisis will mean treating shelter as a right—not a commodity
The housing affordability crisis is not just a crisis of home ownership, affordable rent, and access to permanent shelter; it’s also a crisis of community and well-being, writes David Moscrop.…
Tear down that statue!
On the night of June 6, demonstrators tore down the statue of Egerton Ryerson that stands outside the Toronto university named after him. Watching the statue fall, writes David Moscrop,…
With Greyhound gone, let’s replace it with a national public intercity operator
A national public intercity service, especially if supported by regional public services, would make for a welcome system dedicated to the public interest rather than the profit motive. Image by…
Writing politics during the pandemic
Neon installation by British multimedia artist Tim Etchells, displayed on the side of the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece from November 7, 2016 to July 31, 2017. Photo from…