The myth of the immigrant threat
Rising anti-immigrant sentiment is less about numbers and more about deflecting responsibility for inequality, writes Eric Wilkinson. Photo from Flickr. Anti-immigration sentiment has reached an...
Eric Wilkinson
Air Canada and the erosion of collective bargaining
Air Canada flight attendants during a demonstration at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo courtesy CUPE. On August 16, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job. Three day...
Forget free trade
A Ford Motor Company employee at the Oakville Assembly Plant. Photo by Sam VarnHagen/Flickr. From the outset of the trade war, the United States has imposed tariffs in order to…
Rebuilding Canadian post-secondary education
University of Toronto. Photo by Bill Badzo/Flickr. In the United States, the Trump administration has launched an assault on colleges and universities. In addition to cutting billions in federal...
Shoring up Canada’s economic sovereignty
Port of Vancouver. Photo by Roy Luck/Flickr. The ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States has conditioned many people to conceive of tariffs as inherently punitive. This obscures…
How Canadian conservatism lost sight of the national community
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Photo courtesy Pierre Poilievre/X. How did the Conservative Party lose an election defined by nationalism? Traditionally, it is conservative parties t...