29 July 2026
Canada's Economic Interregnum
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
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Canada's Economic Interregnum
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 earns more than she did at his age in nominal terms, cannot qualify for a mortgage on anything
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29 July 2026
Abundance in Search of a System
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:
29 July 2026
Approving the Future Three Nights at a Time
The largest housing project in Victoria’s history got approved because a handful of young adults gave up their Thursday night. I know because I’m the one who brought them. As a twenty-
22 July 2026
Staples Theory Is Back
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
15 July 2026
The Art of Association
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
15 July 2026
Solidarity Needs a Room
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
8 July 2026
Our Game Now?
What men’s soccer tells us about the challenges of building institutions and national identity in Canada I. A Better Kind of Defeat On Saturday afternoon in Houston, Morocco knocked Canada out of the
2 July 2026
Confederation as Useful History: Part I
Canada's young generation has been denied a usable relationship with its own founding. Recovering the political economy of Confederation, honestly, without hagiography or prosecution, is the first step toward rebuilding it. There
