Drawing the Human Line

Etienne Brisson

Before my life changed on March 20, 2025, I was a business coach with the Student Works Management Program in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, working with sixteen young entrepreneurs, teaching them how to run their first business. We had a really successful year, well on pace to run over $3 million worth of

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5 August 2026

Drawing the Human Line

Etienne Brisson

Before my life changed on March 20, 2025, I was a business coach with the Student Works Management Program in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, working with sixteen young entrepreneurs, teaching them how to run their

Drawing the Human Line

5 August 2026

Tracer la ligne humaine

Etienne Brisson

Avant que ma vie bascule le 20 mars 2025, j'étais coach en affaires pour le programme de gestion Peintres Étudiants à Trois-Rivières, au Québec, où j'accompagnais seize jeunes entrepreneurs

Tracer la ligne humaine

29 July 2026

Canada's Economic Interregnum

Leila Mechoui

Somewhere in Canada today, a retired schoolteacher in her late sixties is watching the value of her condominium tick upward on a real estate app while her grown son, who works in logistics and

Canada's Economic Interregnum

29 July 2026

Abundance in Search of a System

Ribal Zebian

Canada’s housing debate has arrived at a strange kind of consensus. Almost everyone agrees that something must be built, urgently and at scale. The language has become familiar to the point of numbness:

Abundance in Search of a System

22 July 2026

Staples Theory Is Back

Gideon Salutin

I picture Mel Watkins gazing out of his University of Toronto office window in 1962. Decades have passed since his mentor Harold Innis had published his theories on Canadian staples, and at this time

Staples Theory Is Back

15 July 2026

The Art of Association

Benjamin Parry

How a Toronto reading group revived a 300-year-old tradition of building community on purpose The church at the end of my street in the West End of Toronto is a very subdued

The Art of Association

15 July 2026

Solidarity Needs a Room

William Gillies

Working-class politics wasn’t built by policy — it was built in halls, taverns, and union locals that mostly no longer exist. Since 2016, there has been a great deal of material written about

Solidarity Needs a Room