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POLI /POEC 393: Canada and the Global Political Economy Report a Broken Link

Course Information

Useful online resources linked in the Course Information
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Parkland Institute
Economic Policy Institute
International Labour Organization
Political Economy Research Institute (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
International Trade Union Confederation

Section 1

Section 1 - Sources Linked in Study Guide
McIntosh, E. (2020, May 26). Military report finds gruesome conditions, abuse inside 5 Ontario long-term care homes. Canada's National Observer. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/05/26/news/military-report-finds-gruesome-conditions-abuse-inside-5-ontario-long-term-care?fbclid=IwAR1JY_WQBahIztnoxe-LxhA6fW7syygv1eAgJjNEulyzzDgewY5il5SMvqY
Lustgarten, A. (2020, May 7). How climate change is contributing to skyrocketing rates of infectious disease. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-infectious-diseases
Justice and Corporate Accountability Project. (n.d.). The “Canada brand”: Violence and Canadian mining companies in Latin America. https://justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and-canadian-mining-companies-in-latin-america/
Birn, A.-E., Shipton, L., & Schrecker, T. (2018, September 6). Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America: a call to action. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 109, 786–790. https://link.springer.com/article/10.17269/s41997-018-0113-y
Krishnan, M. (2014, June 11). Canadian mining in Latin America: Exploitation, inconsistency, and neglect. Council on Hemispheric Affairs. https://www.coha.org/canadian-mining-in-latin-america-exploitation-inconsistency-and-neglect/

Section 2

Section 2 - Sources Linked in Study Guide
Flesher Fominaya, C. (2020, April 27). How austerity measures hurt the COVID-19 response. OUPblog. https://blog.oup.com/2020/04/how-austerity-measures-hurt-the-covid-19-response/
Gatehouse, J. (2020, April 14). Advocates wonder why long-term care COVID warnings were ignored. CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/covid-care-homes-warnings-1.5532312
Orecchio-Egresitz, H. (2020, April 26). As many as half of Europe's COVID-19 deaths were people in long-term care facilities. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/half-europes-covid-19-deaths-in-long-term-care-facilities-2020-4
Shantz, J. (2020, April 23). COVID crisis states: The authoritarianism pandemic. Rabble.ca. https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/04/covid-crisis-states-authoritarianism-pandemic
Swift, R. (Producer). (2016, June 8). The de-growth paradigm [Radio show episode]. In Ideas. CBC Radio. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-degrowth-paradigm-1.2914099
Anthropocene.info
Climate Justice Resilience Fund. (2019, November 28). Indigenous communities are at the forefront of climate resilience. Climate Home News. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/11/28/indigenous-communities-forefront-climate-resilience/
Sustainability for All. (n.d.). The world's indigenous communities. https://www.activesustainability.com/sustainable-development/worlds-indigenous-communities/
Unit 4 - Required Reading
CBC Radio. (2018, September 26). Is neoliberalism destroying the world? CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/is-neoliberalism-destroying-the-world-1.4839399
Unit 5 - Required Reading
Shrivastava, M. (2015). Liberal democracy in oil-exporting countries: A view from the perspective of staples theory. In M. Shrivastava & L. Stefanick (Eds.), Alberta oil and the decline of democracy in Canada (pp. 31–67). Athabasca University Press.
Unit 6 - Required Reading
CBC Firsthand. (2019, June 17). Colonization road. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/documentarychannel/docs/colonization-road
Unit 7 - Required Reading
Mackenzie, H. (2013). Benefits from public services. In A. Himelfarb & J. Himelfarb (Eds.), Tax is not a four-letter word: A different take on taxes in Canada. Wilfrid Laurier Press.

Assignment 2: Opposite-Editorial (Op-Ed)

Helpful links for Assignment 2
Harvard Kennedy School. (n.d.). How to write an op-ed or column. Projects at Harvard. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/hks-communications-program/files/new_seglin_how_to_write_an_oped_1_25_17_7.pdf
Duke University. (n.d.). Writing effective op-eds. Communicator toolkit. https://commskit.duke.edu/writing-media/writing-effective-op-eds/
McGill University. (n.d.). Op-ed writing tips. Newsroom: Institutional Communications. https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/faculty/op-ed
Collections of op-eds
The Globe and Mail. (n.d.) Editorials. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/
The Star. (n.d.). Editorials. https://www.thestar.com/opinion.html
Maclean's. (n.d.). Op-eds. https://www.macleans.ca/tag/macleans-op-eds/

Section 3

Section 3 - Sources Linked in Study Guide
Hickel, J. (2017, January 14). Aid in reverse: How poor countries develop rich countries. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jan/14/aid-in-reverse-how-poor-countries-develop-rich-countries
Canadian Human Rights Commission. (2020). Statement - Inequality amplified by COVID-19 crisis. https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/statement-inequality-amplified-covid-19-crisis
MacCharles, T. (2020, May 7). 82% of Canada’s COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term care, new data reveals. The Star. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/05/07/82-of-canadas-covid-19-deaths-have-been-in-long-term-care.html
MacKay, K. (2014, October). Neoliberalism and postsecondary education: A view from the colleges. Academic Matters. https://academicmatters.ca/neoliberalism-and-postsecondary-education-a-view-from-the-colleges/
Tam, G., & El-Azar, D. (2020, March 13). 3 ways the coronavirus pandemic could reshape education. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/3-ways-coronavirus-is-reshaping-education-and-what-changes-might-be-here-to-stay/
Jones, S. (2020, 31 March). Covid-19 is our best chance to change universities for good. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/31/covid-19-is-our-best-chance-to-change-universities-for-good#maincontent
Roth, K. (2020, March 31). How authoritarians are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to grab power. NYR Daily. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/03/31/how-authoritarians-are-exploiting-the-covid-19-crisis-to-grab-power/
Guerguerian, A., & Klein, C. (2020). Finding creative ways to protest during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indypendent. https://indypendent.org/2020/04/finding-creative-ways-to-protest-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Guardian News. (2019, December 6). 'A rapist in your path': Chilean protest song becomes feminist anthem [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5AAscy7qbI
Elliott, L. (2018, April 26). Some praise our gig economy flexibility. I call it exploitation. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/gig-economy-flexibility-exploitation-record-employment-low-wages-zero-hours
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. (2019, March). The gig is up: The new gig economy and the threat of subminimum wages. ROCD United. https://rocunited.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2020/02/TheGigIsUp.pdf
United Nations Development Programme. (2020, March 30). COVID-19: Looming crisis in developing countries threatens to devastate economies and ramp up inequality. https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2020/COVID19_Crisis_in_developing_countries_threatens_devastate_economies.html
World Health Organization. (n.d.). Climate change and human health - risks and responses. Summary. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health#
Burt-D'Agnillo, M. (2020, January 23). Free public transit in Canada? Amalgamated Transit Union Canada. https://www.atucanada.ca/blog/free-public-transit-canada
Unit 8 - Required Readings
Giroux, H. A. (2012, October 16). Can democratic education survive in a neoliberal society? Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/can-democratic-education-survive-in-a-neoliberal-society/
Unit 9 - Required Readings
Lim, J. (2019, December 9). Racialized income inequality gap barely budged in decade before 2015, study finds. iPolitics. https://ipolitics.ca/2019/12/09/racialized-income-inequality-gap-barely-budged-in-decade-before-2015-study-finds/
Tencer, D. (2018, September 11). Relentlessly rising wealth disparity threatens to destabilize Canada. Huffington Post. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/income-inequality-lars-osberg-book-canada_ca_5cd56683e4b07bc72977c1db
Essa, A. (2020, June 12). Cornel West: Black Lives Matter and the fight against US empire are one and the same. Middle East Eye. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/cornel-west-black-lives-matter-fight-us-empire
Unit 10 - Required Readings
Malleson, T. (2013). Economic democracy: The left’s big idea for the twenty-first century? New Political Science, 35(1), 84–108.
Epstein, A. B. (2015). The colonialism of the present: An interview with Glen Coulthard. Jacobin. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/indigenous-left-glen-coulthard-interview/