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The petrodollar arrangement has underpinned the dollar’s global dominance since the 1970s. The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is straining that arrangement in ways emergency liquidity tools may not be able to fix. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

How the U.S.‑Israel war against Iran is exposing the limits of the petrodollar system

Elliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen's University, Ontario and Natalie Braun, York University, Canada

The Iran war is now testing whether the Gulf states that have long recycled their oil revenues into American markets will keep doing so.
Condo buildings tower above older two and three-storey walk-up apartment buildings in Burnaby, B.C., in December 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Why Canada should apply labour protections to the rental housing sector

Elliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen's University, Ontario and Natalie Braun, York University, Canada

Canadian landlords are able negotiate from a position of structural dominance as tenants confront systemic harms — rent hikes, unsafe conditions and evictions — all on their own.

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