Canada’s official poverty rate misses widespread hardship. Adding a material deprivation index would improve policy design and evaluation.

The Shopify founder’s endorsement of a bad idea suggests there is far more work to do to protect democracy from a surge of anti-democratic thinking.

Shift Storm newsletter—June 2026 edition

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Some notes toward a theory of Trumpism

There will be no new federal funding for pharmacare. Provinces and territories will have to go it alone to continue the program.

An increasing number of health-care workers, observers and critics worry that the growing financialization of health care is inserting corporate values into treatment, raising questions about the corp...

She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll never stop speaking truth to power

Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years More than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at least half their childhood, a direct legacy of the welfare benefit cuts imposed by Conservative governments in recent years, research reveals. The proportion of children born after 2013 who spent at least six of their first 11 years of life in hardship surged after ministers froze working age benefits levels and imposed policies such as the two-child limit, it found. Continue reading...

It is clear that supply and demand curves are not sufficient for understanding the housing crisis. We can build all we want, but if we are building houses as financial assets prices are going to stay ...

From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent

This is the second of a two-part analysis of Canada’s GDP per capita. The first part can be found here. Some business and political commentators cite a growing gap between the per capita GDP of Canada...

Parties are a necessary tool for connecting individuals and transforming shared interests into collective power. The left will not win by simply electing better politicians, but by forging a political...

At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...

At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...

To re-establish power, defend sovereignty, and strengthen democratic values, Canada and its allies must do more than challenge the American state. We must also confront the influence of US corporate p...

Governments keep chasing the market while community housing providers quietly deliver stable, affordable homes that won’t disappear when profits rise

Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First

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As Mark Carney’s government prepares a sweeping austerity agenda—gutting public services, fuelling militarism, and expanding fossil fuel projects—John Clarke argues that a new wave of resistance is em...

Too little attention is being paid to the inequities of our economic system.

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The Ontario city’s so-called ‘state of emergency’ is a manufactured crisis built on cruelty, not care

In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.

Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher

How easily they crumbled.

For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.

For decades, Liberal and Conservative governments alike have incentivized corporations and wealthy individuals to shift profits overseas.

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing ...

‘If it comes to a U.S. invasion, no amount of military spending on our part is going to defend us from that’

Analysis: Studies show public healthcare is more likely to lead to better health outcomes, and diverting public funds to private healthcare erodes the quality of public care.