cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social
CGSP is a research centre devoted to advancing social policy in Canada and around the world. CGSP is located within the University of Toronto's Sociology Department. https://cgsp-cpsm.ca/
👤 Joined on 13 December 2024
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@cgsp-cpsm.bsky.socialThis weekend we organized a counter-summit to Carney's fire sale of resources & public infrastructure. The rooms were overflowing and alive with movement energy. Then we marched, led by Indigenous leaders, took the barricades for hours and danced. Colonialism, neoliberalism, fascism: NO to it all.
Show PostMark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.
Show PostRights-based frameworks only work if violation has consequences. The pattern in migrant labor: rights exist on paper, enforcement depends on the worker reporting, and reporting risks deportation. The gap between the right and its exercise is the business model.
Show PostMore housing won’t automatically mean fairer housing. In my latest piece, I argue that without addressing anti-Black racism, Canada’s housing agenda risks scaling inequality—not solving it. metropolitics.org/Build-Canada...
Show PostIn @policyoptions.irpp.org, Milad Moghaddas argues that protecting migrant workers from abuse requires a rights-based framework, which would also benefit the Canadian economy overall. He maps out four policy directions for achieving this transition. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/prot...
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