2067 Journal

Two stories from the past month best illustrate the nature of American power in the current moment: one involves Canada, the other Venezuela. The first is about a country and its leadership strong enough to stand up for its own interests and reject a lop-sided deal offered by a

Canadian housing is expensive. It is expensive to produce, and in turn it is expensive to buy. The problem is no longer merely one of affordability: it has become an economic-capacity and nation-building challenge. Canada’s next housing system needs to be more supply-elastic, more tenure-

I moved to Edmonton in 2023, along with 100,000 others in two years, in the middle of a housing crisis engulfing much of Canada. It was a good year to be a housing advocate. Governments at every level had finally acknowledged that housing supply matters. Toronto, Edmonton, and our

After its worst election result ever, the NDP needs to relearn a tradition it once knew well: fusing love of country with social democracy --- I. The Canadian Left and Nationalism The 2025 federal election was the worst result in the history of the New Democratic Party, including that of its

Capitalism has been in some kind of crisis for as long as most people alive can recall. An anomalous interlude of prosperity and peace, the End of History, was first punctured by the 2008 financial crash, which should have been a moment of revelation, perhaps even of revolution. The old