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Detention for Profit: The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing Canada's Carceral System
Housing Justice

Detention for Profit: The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing Canada's Carceral System

Canada has been quietly expanding its use of private contractors across detention, prisoner transport, and correctional services — paying more public money for less public accountability. Behind the procurement language and service contracts lies a system that costs taxpayers a premium while delivering degraded conditions, reduced oversight, and consequences that fall most heavily on Indigenous and racialized people already overrepresented behind bars.
Borrowed Futures: How Canada's Student Loan System Was Designed to Fail Working-Class Graduates
Labour Rights

Borrowed Futures: How Canada's Student Loan System Was Designed to Fail Working-Class Graduates

Decades of federal policy choices have quietly transformed post-secondary education from a public investment into a private debt sentence. While successive governments have tinkered at the margins, the structural machinery of the student loan system continues to extract wealth from the Canadians least equipped to absorb it. The result is not a bug in the system — it is the system.
Healthcare Justice

Green on the Surface: How Canada's Renewable Energy Rush Is Riding Roughshod Over Indigenous Sovereignty

Canada presents itself internationally as a climate leader, but the infrastructure of that green transition is being built, in many cases, on Indigenous land without genuine consent and with minimal economic benefit flowing to the communities most affected. The contradiction between Canada's reconciliation commitments and its appetite for resource extraction — even extraction dressed in the language of sustainability — has never been more visible.
Sold by the Procedure: The Quiet Corporate Takeover of Canada's Universal Healthcare Promise
Healthcare Justice

Sold by the Procedure: The Quiet Corporate Takeover of Canada's Universal Healthcare Promise

Canada's public healthcare system — the institution Canadians consistently identify as a defining national value — is being dismantled not through a single dramatic legislative act, but through a thousand smaller decisions: a contract awarded to a private surgical company, a diagnostic clinic permitted to charge facility fees, a provincial government that quietly allows queue-jumping for those who can pay. This investigation traces the architecture of creeping privatisation and asks what remains
Corporate Welfare Nation: The Hidden Billions Canadian Taxpayers Pour Into Already-Profitable Companies
Labour Rights

Corporate Welfare Nation: The Hidden Billions Canadian Taxpayers Pour Into Already-Profitable Companies

Every year, billions of dollars flow from Canadian public coffers into the hands of corporations that are already generating substantial profits for their shareholders. Through a labyrinth of tax credits, direct grants, favourable public-private arrangements, and regulatory carve-outs, governments at every level have built an architecture of corporate support that operates largely beyond public scrutiny. Meanwhile, the workers who generate that corporate wealth are told there is simply no money

Landlords as Lords: How Canada's Housing Market Became a Wealth Engine for Investors and a Trap for Everyone Else
Housing Justice

Landlords as Lords: How Canada's Housing Market Became a Wealth Engine for Investors and a Trap for Everyone Else

Canada's housing crisis is not an accident — it is the predictable outcome of decades of policy choices that elevated property as an investment vehicle above its fundamental purpose as shelter. From corporate landlords acquiring entire apartment buildings to foreign capital flowing into vacant condominiums, working Canadians are paying the price for a system designed to enrich the few. This investigation examines the mechanisms of housing extraction and the political failures that sustain them.
Platforms, Profits, and Precarity: How Canada's Gig Giants Are Escaping the Rules That Protect Everyone Else
Labour Rights

Platforms, Profits, and Precarity: How Canada's Gig Giants Are Escaping the Rules That Protect Everyone Else

Beneath the convenience of a tapped app and a doorstep delivery lies a workforce stripped of basic protections that most Canadians take for granted. Major platforms like Uber, DoorDash, and SkipTheDishes have built billion-dollar empires on the backs of workers legally classified as independent contractors — a designation that conveniently exempts corporations from paying into employment insurance, providing minimum wage guarantees, or covering workplace injuries. Canada's provincial governments