Tag: Privatization

Mobility is not just how we get from A to B; it is about social justice and health, housing and democracy, and the climate crisis.

Ohio’s reliance on for-profit prisons shows that slavery has never ended in America. Prisons have always been about herding, investing in, and marketing chattel for a profit.

The colonial economics of incarceration

A coalition of agricultural, environmental, and Indigenous organizations are calling on the Government of Saskatchewan to put an end to the privatization of Crown land, calling it a “hidden tragedy” for native prairies.

Though 80 per cent of Canada’s COVID deaths have happened in long-term care homes, Saskatchewan has fared better than the Canadian average. It was thanks, in part, to its relatively robust system of publicly owned homes. But in recent decades, cracks have begun showing in that system.

As Saskatchewan shows, when you allow private companies to make bank on the backs of the public, it’s the people who pay.

Activists kicked Amazon’s HQ2 out of New York City. They ran Google’s new campus out of Berlin. Now, in Toronto, #BlockSidewalk wants to send Google – and their new “smart city” – packing. The battle against Big Tech is emerging as the new front in the fight for the right to the city.

Philip Brass of Peepeekisis First Nation explains the impact of Saskatchewan Party’s decision to auction off Crown land.

What can a book portraying economic ruin in America teach us about Canada’s future?

The government ditched the STC without lining up alternatives, counting on private companies to step up. This isn’t how it went for other Crown sales.

The liberalization of China’s economy has widened the gap between rich and poor, rendering clean air and clean water a privatized luxury.

The worker response to the Saskatchewan Party’s piecemeal approach to dismantling the public sector.