Diversifying Canada’s economic strategy is essential in an era of tariff escalation and growing geopolitical volatility. Stellantis’s recent announcement that it’s heading south sent another Arctic chill to concerns over Canada’s industrial future. Billions in public subsidies are flowing to foreign multinational automakers, yet questions remain: Who benefits?

Promises of Canadian independence from US influence are unravelling as the Carney government moves forward with the costly F-35 fighter jet purchase. Amid rising global tensions and domestic crises, Owen Schalk warns these decisions will deepen Washington’s control, divert resources from urgent social and environmental needs, and signal a troubling continuity in foreign policy.

Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the government’s support of billion-dollar profits, André Frappier discusses how one of Canada’s most essential institutions is being dismantled, and who is benefiting.

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.

Ottawa wants the Supreme Court to curb provincial use of the notwithstanding clause, but progressives shouldn’t cheer. Limiting Section 33 risks eroding democratic accountability and inflaming national unity tensions. Dónal Gill argues the left must reclaim defence of parliamentary sovereignty, even when its uses are politically uncomfortable.

Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.

On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent. His stance reflects a deeper history of hostility toward Venezuela, including blocking its gold reserves while governor of the Bank of England.

Canada must recognize that artistic labour is labour. It is intellectual, cultural, and spiritual work that enriches society and deserves structural recognition. Immigration policy must account for the contributions of artists, scholars, and community builders whose work does not fit neatly into economic categories but whose impact is undeniable.

The threat to Canadian sovereignty is real and it demands a renewed analysis and a third wave of progressive nationalism to meet the challenges of the post-globalization era of authoritarian US imperialism. The fight for Canada is the central political issue of our time and it will inevitably unite or divide Canadian labour and social movements.

Canada faces a critical choice in foreign policy: continue following Europe and the US in militarization, or pursue diplomacy with growing global powers. Yakov M. Rabkin argues that Canada should diversify economic and political ties toward nations like China, India, and Russia, prioritizing dialogue over containment, while safeguarding social programs and democratic debate at home.