Construction site in Vancouver. Photo by Ted McGrath/Flickr. Housing advocacy groups have expressed varying degrees of optimism about the $13 billion the federal government allocated to Build Ca...
Photo courtesy the Bank of Canada/X Mark Carney’s long-anticipated investment-austerity budget has finally been tabled before Parliament and it’s set to raise the deficit to $78 billion. While t...
Federal CCF Caucus, 1942. Left to right, Tommy Douglas, George Castleden, Angus MacInnis, Clarie Gillis, Joe Noseworthy, Sandy Nicholoson, and Percy Wright. Photo courtesy Library and Archives Canada. ...
Photo by Ian Muttoo/Flickr This article has been updated and republished to correct and clarify aspects of the original analysis, ensuring a more accurate reflection of the underlying da...
Photo by ginza_line/Flickr This year, Canada’s household debt climbed to $3.07 trillion, topping the G7 for the 15th consecutive year. With debt—including mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards...
Financial District, Toronto. Photo by Sean X Liu/Flickr. Lagging productivity has plagued the Canadian economy for generations. Over the last 50 years, Canada has slipped from being the sixth-mo...
Workers complete a wartime home in Vancouver in May 1944. Photo by Harry Rowed/NFB. Mark Carney has consistently drawn parallels between his government’s $25 billion housing program and the wart...
Toronto’s St. James Town, the largest high-rise community in Canada. Photo by Ashton Emanuel/Flickr. In his fourth-century memoir Saint Augustine recalls his youthful struggle to become a ...
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash Housing costs are high because there are not enough homes. We must do everything in our power to add as many residences to the nation’s stockpile…
Photo by Viktoria Chemberlidi/Unsplash Sovereignty and international relations have rightfully dominated the news cycle since the federal election was called earlier this year, but around the di...
Photo by Daniel Lobo/Flickr Economists agree, rent control doesn’t work. It makes housing less profitable and disincentivizes both the construction of new builds and the maintenance of existing ...
Apartment block on Queen Street East, Toronto. Photo by Can Pac Swire/Flickr. Sonia is a social worker in Alberta. Her sister Elizabeth is a registered nurse. As licensed professionals they…
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, speaks during a news conference in London, August 13, 2014. Photo courtesy the Bank of England/Flickr. Sovereignty has become the single mo...
Photo by Alan Harder/Flickr Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis Carolyn Whitzman UBC Press, 2024 Carolyn Whitzman has all the answers. She has a plan to fix ...
View over Toronto toward downtown. Photo by Michael Monastyrskyj. A garden once thrived at the corner of 89th Street and 92nd Avenue in Edmonton. Every spring residents of the city’s…
Rally to end the war on drugs, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy Drug Policy Alliance/Flickr. British Columbia began a three-year experiment with drug decriminalization at the beginning of 202...
Cubicles at a supervised injection site in Strasbourg. Photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia Commons. Across the street from a ceramics studio on Dundas Street in London, Ontario there’s...
Homeless man resting on a sidewalk. Vancouver, Canada. Photo by Jay Black/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons. If a person is using drugs, should the government force them to accept treatment? The recentl...
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland joins officials in Vancouver to announce funding for a 10-storey, 231-unit development slated for the city’s Downtown Eastside. Photo courtesy Chrystia Freeland/X. ...
Toronto’s Regent Park in 1968, Canada’s oldest social-housing project. Photo by Graham Bezant/Toronto Star. A government report on the national “housing price spiral” expre...
