Economy

[Cet article a été initialement publié par Pivot.Québec le 7 janvier 2022.] Le 17 décembre 2021, le gouvernement Trudeau a annoncé en fanfare son intention d’instaurer un salaire minimum [...]

Cette semaine, sur ICI Radio-Canada, j’ai parlé avec Elsie Miclisse des failles du nouveau salaire minimum fédéral et des nombreux avantages d’offrir aux Canadiens un revenu de base [...]

On December 17, 2021, the Trudeau government announced with fanfare that it planned to institute a $15 federal minimum wage. The wage came into effect on December 29, 2021. Every April 1, [...]

This past week, I talked about eco-socialism and the Green Party of Canada leadership contest with Mike Palacek, former President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. As Mike and I discussed, [...]

Today, the IMF warned that the world is on the cusp a recession even more severe than the contraction caused by the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Canadians are confronting an economic crisis [...]

As I explained this week in a discussion with Vanmala Subramaniam of the Financial Post, former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge once described Canada as the “Wild West” of [...]

In 2014, the Canadian polling firm EKOS asked respondents whether they agreed with the following proposition: If the current patterns of stagnation among all except those at the very top [...]

For The Real News, I spoke this week to Leo Roberts, co-author of a new report which concludes that, even as G20 governments pay lip service to the climate crisis, they are doling out gigantic [...]

For The Real News Network, I speak to Stanford University Professor Noah Diffenbaugh about a new study showing that global warming is increasing inequality. My discussion with Professor [...]

For The Real News Network, I recently spoke in Puerto Rico with economist Dr. José Caraballo-Cueto about the economic prospects for an independent Puerto Rico. Would Puerto Rico be better off if [...]