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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

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

#Blocksidewalk was a grassroots campaign that shut down Google's attempt to turn Toronto into a surveillance-driven "smart city"

The city's infrastructure is dominated by the automobile

Guess who first normalized pedestrian shaming

We can shape the future of urban life

Cities have long been seen as engines that drive prosperity but a new fiscal arrangement is needed that allows them to tackle the serious issues of our time.

Some cities are making small changes to create more accessible spaces

Capitalism and urbanization are deeply tied to one another—but what might a liberated city look like?