The NDP’s Oil Problem
Despite activist pressure, Canada's New Democratic Party is still wedded to fossil fuel development.
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What Canada’s Social Democrats Can Do Now
Despite a disappointing result in Monday’s elections, the NDP has embraced its most socialist program in a generation. To recover and to win, it must continue to offer Canadians an alternative to neoliberalism.
The Canada Infrastructure Bank Is a Subsidy Scheme for Big Business
Justin Trudeau’s government claims that the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) can solve Canada’s infrastructure problems. In reality, the CIB is a vehicle for private interests to get their hands on public assets and revenue streams. It should be excluded from coronavirus recovery plans.
Decriminalizing Hard Drugs Isn’t Nearly Enough to End the War on Drugs
British Columbia’s decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of hard drugs is a good first step in our fight against the opioid crisis. But it does not go far enough — we need universal decriminalization, high possession thresholds, and safe supply.
Canada Is Cheerleading New NATO Expansion
Justin Trudeau's Canadian government has eagerly embraced NATO’s new "strategic concept": expansion. The strategy is a return to the Cold War — and a recipe for more frequent military conflict.
An Opportunity for an Alternative in Canada
An interview with Niki Ashton, whose campaign for leadership of Canada's New Democratic Party has been rooted in a bold left-wing vision.
Canada’s Liberal Party Is a Club of Plutocrat Sycophants
Canada’s former finance minister Bill Morneau has recently moved from cabinet to the board of a multinational bank. This business as usual is a reminder that Liberals are totally at home among Canada’s rich and powerful.
Canada’s Response to Israel’s Far-Right Government Is Disgraceful, but It’s Nothing New
Ottawa’s refusal to ruffle feathers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, the most far-right in Israel’s history, is par for the course. Canada remains a staunch ally of Israel’s apartheid state.
Canada’s Incoming Prime Minister Is a Banker
Mark Carney, Canada’s incoming prime minister, is a former banker with no political experience. His technocratic centrism is ill-suited for an era of populism and political upheaval, making a Liberal victory in the looming election far from certain.
How Canada Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dysfunction
Canada's democracy is in crisis but Canadians don't seem to care. What looks like complacency, however, may actually be the result of decades of institutional drift and managed inertia.
Canada’s National Energy Program Showed What a Public Energy Policy Can Achieve
In 1980, Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau introduced the National Energy Program. Though flawed, the policy showed how state intervention in the energy sector could overcome the boom-and-bust of the business cycle.
Ed Broadbent on Why We Must Move Beyond the Welfare State
Canadian socialist Ed Broadbent died earlier this month. On the weekend of his funeral, we republish his impactful first speech in the Canadian House of Commons, in which he argued for the need to deepen democracy and move beyond the welfare state.
The NDP Has a Chance to Radically Reshape the Coming Canadian Election
With an election formally called, all signs point to another dismal exercise in fake Conservative culture war pandering and equally fake Liberal gestures toward social democracy. The social-democratic NDP now has a chance to shake up the race with its ambitious populist plans to tax billionaires and excess corporate profits.
Hysteria About Chinese Political Interference Has Arrived in Canada
Canadian news media is in a panic about alleged Chinese influence in Canadian politics. Their coverage is promoting anti-Chinese sentiment and creating farcical levels of paranoia about foreign interference.
Canada’s Housing Crisis Demands Action, Not Words
As Canadians struggle with impossible housing costs, political rhetoric must align with concrete actions. This entails moving beyond vague appeals for “affordable housing” and focusing on the fundamental goal: securing housing for everyone.
The NDP Has Compromised Canada’s Shot at Pharmacare
New legislation seeks to end Canada’s status as the only country with public health care that excludes medication coverage. But the NDP’s incrementalism and willingness to play ball with the Liberals may have compromised the program before it gets started.
Canada’s Leftists to the NDP: “Turn Down the Suck, Turn Up the Good”
In the last few decades, Canada’s New Democratic Party has moved away from socialist politics and grassroots democracy. The party is now languishing. But turning back to its socialist roots could help revive the NDP.
Canada’s New Just Transition Bill Can Support Green Jobs or Greenwash — It Can’t Do Both
Justin Trudeau’s Sustainable Jobs Act, hailed by unions, is a good step toward a just transition. But if the Liberals cave to Conservative opposition, it will be yet another party policy failure and will achieve nothing but greenwashing for the oil sector.
By Honoring a Nazi, Canada’s Parliament Has Unearthed a Troubling History
When Canada’s parliament unwittingly paid homage to a Nazi veteran, it opened the door to questions about its postwar past. The incident highlights broader issues of historical distortion and the country’s history of harboring Nazi war criminals.
Questions for the Canadian Left
The Canadian left must rally opposition to the Trudeau government and chart an independent course.