Budget 2025 offers Canada a chance to make employee ownership permanent by extending tax incentives for employee ownership trusts and worker co-ops. Doing so would boost productivity, reduce inequality, and secure business succession, while keeping jobs and decision-making local. A modest investment promises significant economic and social dividends.

The long reign of exclusionary single-family zoning is being challenged in British Columbia—and none too soon amid a severe housing shortage. The BC government has unveiled major pieces of housing legislation including a policy that requires cities to allow multiplexes with three to six homes on portions of land where they have long blocked all but single-family houses.

Public hearings on housing systematically underrepresent the interests of renters and those who have been priced out of communities. This problem is increasingly recognized and studied in cities across North America. Public engagement should take a more representative and deeply democratic form, and one that is consistent with rapid action to address the housing crisis.