Budget 2026 does not meaningfully address housing insecurity
A provincial budget delivered in the midst of a housing crisis should have something consequential to say on the subject of housing
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We have given you a university — if you can keep it
The defunding of Memorial is not a story of fiscal misfortune or demographic bad luck. It is one of a deliberate, decades-long ideological project whose purpose is the transformation of public universities from civic institutions into market instruments.
A housing corporation without a housing mandate
The Liberals and PCs have no right to point fingers at each other in response to the auditor general’s scathing report on social housing
Slowly killing research at Memorial University
A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of knowledge.
National housing report misses the mark on real human impacts in N.L.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s B+ on its progress to increase housing supply doesn’t paint an accurate picture of residents’ lived realities in the province
Hope, grief, and value: a reflection on the Humanities
‘I saw the magic that happened in our seminars as the seed of something that could only benefit society by spreading.’
The case for affordable housing
Whether you're concerned with human rights or simply with dollars, investing in affordable housing makes sense
Memorial University students can’t afford silence
Why we’re taking action on Oct. 1
From Black Excellence to Black Flourishing at Memorial University
Excellence on its own will never keep us safe
Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation
Decades of austerity have left Memorial’s buildings crumbling and its people sick, but beneath the mould and rats is a deeper story of land and labour — and a chance to transform the university from a site of neglect into a democratic, life-giving institution
We have given you a university — if you can keep it
The defunding of Memorial is not a story of fiscal misfortune or demographic bad luck. It is one of a deliberate, decades-long ideological project whose purpose is the transformation of public universities from civic institutions into market instruments.
A housing corporation without a housing mandate
The Liberals and PCs have no right to point fingers at each other in response to the auditor general’s scathing report on social housing
Slowly killing research at Memorial University
A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of knowledge.
National housing report misses the mark on real human impacts in N.L.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s B+ on its progress to increase housing supply doesn’t paint an accurate picture of residents’ lived realities in the province
Hope, grief, and value: a reflection on the Humanities
‘I saw the magic that happened in our seminars as the seed of something that could only benefit society by spreading.’
The case for affordable housing
Whether you're concerned with human rights or simply with dollars, investing in affordable housing makes sense
Memorial University students can’t afford silence
Why we’re taking action on Oct. 1
From Black Excellence to Black Flourishing at Memorial University
Excellence on its own will never keep us safe
Memorial’s Geography of Neglect: From Decay to Transformation
Decades of austerity have left Memorial’s buildings crumbling and its people sick, but beneath the mould and rats is a deeper story of land and labour — and a chance to transform the university from a site of neglect into a democratic, life-giving institution