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How domestic and transnational activism helped transform labour law in Mexico

Since Mexico's progressive government radically reformed labour law, workers and their unions are flexing their muscles across the country

Toxic legacy

A record-breaking trade lawsuit against Canada confirms the dire threat that investor-state dispute settlement poses to bold climate action

Canada's options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit

TC Energy is trying to use NAFTA provisions to punish the US government for cancelling Keystone XL. Canada should intervene against the fossil fuel company.

The clear-cut case against ISDS with Indonesia

Forestry-related firms made regular use of NAFTA’s controversial but expiring investor-state dispute settlement process. Why is Canada opening the door to ISDS claims from Indonesian forestry giants?

After neoliberalism, a progressive globalization?

The institutions of global economic governance can be retooled to advance social and environmental justice