A universal basic income could provide financially precarious people with the money they need. And it would keep money flowing through the financial system.
- Economic Researcher, York University, Canada
Governments and corporations seem to understand that the landscape of Indigenous resistance has shifted.
Carbon pricing is the most market-based means of addressing the climate crisis, yet it is strongly opposed by politicians that claim to support free markets.
Critics complain that government debt saddles future generations with a financial burden. The critics are wrong.
TransCanada Corporation has misunderstood or misrepresented the risks associated with Indigenous jurisdiction.
A Green New Deal would confront both climate change and social inequality. Its prospects in the United States are uncertain, but Canada should endeavour to develop one of its own anyway.
A wealth tax would put a price on past emissions and could be used to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, including vulnerability to climate change.
Cheap fossil fuels contort the global economy in ways that have systematically harmed some and benefited others. Justice demands that those of us who have benefited take responsibility.
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