Analysis
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December 29, 2021 
What is going on with inflation?
Anyone who has gone to the grocery store this year has noticed the prices of basic food items are going up. For many people in…
economy
Feature
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December 3, 2021
The right click: NFTs and capitalism’s speculative frenzy
While NFTs are new, they represent something that is not. This commodification of our digital life is more than just a fad: it is a speculative frenzy that has its roots in capitalism’s contradictory economic recovery.
Analysis
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November 18, 2021
Running on fumes: The Canadian economy, speculation and debt.
Near the beginning of the pandemic, the Canadian economy — and the workers on which it depends — experienced a quiet crisis. For decades, mountains…
Review
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June 9, 2021
Stagnating capitalism and the automation myth
Automation and the Future of Work by Aaron Benanav (Verso, 2020) Over the last month, service sector employers in the United States have been gripped…
Feature
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September 16, 2020
BIPOC and work in the time of COVID
COVID-19 began with the slogan that “we’re all in this together” but the virus and economic crisis have instead worsened pre-existing inequalities. For months, communities…
Analysis
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September 8, 2020
We need an economy that works for workers
Just before Labour Day, Statistics Canada released its monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS) for August 2020. In normal times, the reported rise in employment of…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Imperialism and COVID-19
We are not in this together. The divisions that run through our society going into the COVID-19 crisis have only been heightened. Racialized workers are…
Feature
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April 29, 2020
COVID-19: How should the economy be reopened?
With some indications that COVID-19 numbers are peaking across Canada, the debate is shifting from how to stop the pandemic to how to restart the…
Analysis
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April 17, 2020
Don’t subsidize corporations, democratize the economy
On Easter weekend Sid Hynes, the Executive Chairman of Oceanex, a Canadian shipping company, announced they would be cutting back their shipping service to Newfoundland….
Op-ed
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April 7, 2020
Lessons from the crisis last time
The speed and severity of the economic crash occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has outstripped anyone’s wildest predictions. Large parts of the…
Analysis
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March 17, 2020
The viral crash
Oh there goes gravity. In short order the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented global economic downturn, whose full force we have not even begun…