Austerity and the Decline of the Collective
bold is the new pragmatic
We Need an Antidote to Complacency and Resentment
When life becomes a zero sum game, when competition is seen as the sole basis for organizing society, when targeting social benefits that should be universal shows folk that some gain and some don’t but everybody pays, when austerity tells us that there’s less in the pot so what one gets the other loses, when … Continue reading
We Can’t Make Things Better Without More Tax Revenue
Here’s my latest, in CCPA’s Monitor on reconnecting taxes and the common good. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/reconnecting-taxes-and-common-good
EXPANDING THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION
The other day, CNN ran a focus group on what some American voters were now thinking about their president. The comments were almost universally critical including among Trump voters. But even some of the most critical, it seems, may still be Trump supporters. It was, for me, a valuable reminder that pointing out Trump’s flaws, … Continue reading
The outrage must not dull
What’s going on – the ban on transsexuals, the removal of civil rights protections, the equivocation on nazis and white supremacists, the assault on immigrants, the pardon, and so much more – is not about Bannon or Gorka or Miller but about the man who hired them and all those who excuse, justify or stand … Continue reading
The Beginning of the End of Homelessness
Roy Romanow and I just published this piece making the case that ending homelessness should be a top priority in the government’s promised National Housing Strategy. Shortly after we put our thoughts on paper, two more homeless people died. Tens of thousands of Canadians every day face the perils, loneliness and exclusion that come … Continue reading
Why Proportional Representation Is Likely To Produce Better Public Policy
Here is a piece I wrote for CCPA on the policy benefits of a more proportional electoral system.
Basic Income
The Ontario government has committed to test the idea of a basic income. Over the next week or so Hugh Segal will release a discussion paper intended to guide the experiment and that will be followed by public consultations. The idea of unconditional income has a long history with supporters and detractors from both the … Continue reading
Proportional Representation: Fairness, Representativeness and Accountability
Here are the notes for my introductory comments to the Special Committee on Electoral Reform July 27, 2016 I thank the committee for the opportunity to appear on this important issue. I have been a longtime proponent of electoral reform as a key to democratic renewal. While no electoral system is perfect, the comparative … Continue reading
Le Carnet d’Alexandre- Quels candidats municipaux appuient les Francophones?
- la gouvernance des minorités francophones: de Charlottetown à aujourd’hui
- Élections municipales à Toronto: les enjeux francophones
- Budget et stratégie électorale en Ontario
- L’immigration francophone à Toronto: succès et défis
- Le dilemme d’Andrea Horwath
- Trudeau et la stratégie de l’ambigüité
- Forum de la Francophonie torontoise: le vendredi 22 mars
- Augmenter l’immigration d’expression française à Toronto
- Le défi autochtone: comment aborder un problème social complexe
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