Mobilizing Canada for economic battle?
A woman operates heavy equipment along a long production line while men install the mechanical equipment of a ram tank, 1942. Photo courtesy Toronto Public Library. “It is distressing to…
Canadian Politics, Economic Crisis, Housing,
Why is Canada subsidizing landlords during a housing crisis?
Photo by wyliepoon/Flickr Canada is in the depths of a severe housing crisis. Nationally, rents have increased 21 percent in just two years. While some large landlords are reporting huge…
Why the National Housing Strategy failed
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. ...
Why Housing First failed in Canada
A tower crane seen from the marina of Port Credit, Mississauga, Ontario. Photo by Jarrett E. Hather/Flickr. Every day more Canadians are being pressed into homelessness. Shelters are overflowing...
Why the housing crisis is not an immigration problem
Condominium towers in Toronto. Photo by Skycandy/Urban Toronto/Flickr. I work with a woman named Amarpreet. Amarpreet is a jovial, hardworking mother of one. Twice a week she brings boondi ladoo…
Vancouver’s go-slow multiplex policy could blow a hole in provincial housing projections
High-rise housing in Vancouver. Photo by Darren Kirby/Wikimedia Commons. The long reign of exclusionary single-family zoning is being challenged in British Columbia—and none too soon amid a severe housing shortage.…
The apocalyptic doublethink of Poilievre’s economics
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre appears in front of Sudbury’s iconic Big Nickel to talk about inflation. Image courtesy of Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel. “There are parts of his “Debtonation”…
Debunking Poilievre’s housing ‘documentary’
Still from Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s mini-documentary, “Housing hell: How we got here and how we get out.” Image from YouTube. “Housing Hell,” Pierre Poilievre’s mini-documentary on the housing…