For over 12 years, Erendira Keriti has earned poverty wages that have left her scrambling to afford rent and basic necessities in Toronto’s Bloor West Village. She’s not an exception: the number of low-wage jobs (defined as having an hourly rate within four dollars of the minimum wage) […]
I had the pleasure of watching The Watershed at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal last Friday (it runs until December 4 by the way). Some of my friends in the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) master program (that I completed last April) had told me about it just […]
In the days since Donald Trump was elected President, opinion pieces have become ubiquitous. Race and economics have taken center stage—as they should—but what is missing is a paradigm-transcending discussion of the type of economics that is needed in the twenty-first century. ‘Make America Great Again’ means resource […]
Where will Canada’s GHG emissions reductions come from in the next decade? E4A’s Peter Victor from York University coauthored a recent article in Ecological Economics with economist Brett Dolter. They argue that when it comes to GHG accounting, we should be focusing on the consumer. Click here to read […]