Universal access to birth control is popular, smart policy, and a building block for universal pharmacare in Canada

Whether it's gender, parental status, or immigration status, the public sector is better at narrowing pay gaps than the private sector.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms

I see the failures of the privatized insurance system every day. We have a chance to start fixing it.

What’s behind Saskatchewan and New Brunswick’s targeting of queer and trans youth?

Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on public service

Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on seniors’ care

It’s less about choice, and more about privilege, privatization, populism, and patriarchy

But inflation and low government wage offers threaten to erase those gains.

Federal public sector workers haven’t seen an inflation-adjusted raise since 2007—the worst of any industry in Canada.

The ideological agenda against public education is in high gear—with funding cuts coupled with structural governance changes.

We need to do better at getting benefits to those who need them.

The tension between this federal government’s neoliberal economic roots and social justice ambitions has always been evident.

Investments in a clean economy, dental care, and a GST top-up stole the show; many other needed investments have gone missing.

We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.

It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians' lives than deficit reduction.