Canada must heed opposition to investor-state dispute settlement and rethink trade deal with Ecuador

Shift Storm newsletter—March 2024 edition

Much-watched CUSMA case raises public morals and environmental justifications for Mexican food measures—and first-of-its-kind Indigenous Peoples’ defence

Canada’s latest federal budget has some real gains in it—and some really frustrating half-measures

The business lobby is spinning the tax increase as a middle class issue. It’s not.

It is too soon for the federal government to rest on its climate laurels.

2024 federal budget makes biggest investments in housing, care economy in generations with its second-to-last budget before an election

Financial Accountability Office paper is essential reading for every Ontarian

Part 1: Rent control, rent freezes, vacancy controls—the terms can be hard to keep track of. This is your reference guide.

Part 2: In theory, Canada’s most populous province has protection for tenants. In practice, landlords can find lots of ways to hike up rents.

Part 3: Landlords systematically use AGI applications to bypass provincial guidelines

Part 4: Landlords and developers love scientific-sounding arguments against rent control. There’s just one problem—they’re not true.

Part 5: The policy solutions to skyrocketing rents are quite straightforward—but enacting them means taking on the power of landlords and developers

Part 6: Tenants in Ontario have resources available to defend themselves against landlords—and against bad-faith anti-tenant arguments. Here are a few of them.

It would be a political mistake for PMs Trudeau and Attal to dismiss discontent with the Canada-EU trade deal

Some cities are making small changes to create more accessible spaces