NEW: While Ottawa considers spending 5% of GDP on defence, it should ask itself why we spend only 0.2% of GDP on our universities. This isn’t just budget math, it’s a statement of values and priorities, writes Eric Wilkinson. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

My latest for Canadian Dimension: why we should give up on free trade with the US if it's going to mean selling out our political independence. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Seemingly stuck in Asia thanks to Air Canada. I say seemingly because they haven't updated customers. I hope CUPE gets everything they are asking for.

Canadians built Air Canada and our airports with decades of public investment. Now we have a privatized airline cutting service, abandoning workers, and pocketing bailouts. If we’re footing the bill anyway, shouldn’t they serve the public—not shareholders? canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

My latest for Canadian Dimension: decades of governments undermining collective bargaining rights in Canada has led to companies like Air Canada running straight to them to end strikes instead of bargaining in good faith. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

It took decades of labour militancy to have the right to strike recognized in Canadian law. It's no surprise that ignoring those hard-won rights led us back to this.

My latest for Peace Magazine: the debate in Armenia over how to move forward and pursue peace. peacemagazine.org/archive/?id=30…

Scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing, health care, or employment helps no one. It obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities, writes Eric Wilkinson. canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

My latest for Canadian Dimension on how scapegoating immigrants for Canada's problems prevents us from finding real solutions to them. #cdnpoli #canada canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

Something I wrote for First-Gen Philosophers. Having one foot in the academy and the outside world can keep you grounded, but you have to be careful not to fall through the gulf inbetween. #philosophy #publicphilosophy firstgenphilosophers.com/contributions/…

From Robert Stead's, "He Sleeps in Flanders" (1923): He saw not where his path should lead, Nor sought a path to suit his will; He saw a nation in her need; He heard the cause of Honor plead; He heard the call, he gave it heed, And now he sleeps in Flanders. #RemembranceDay

For Briarpatch Magazine's recent Labour Issue, I wrote on the challenges facing rural unions in Canada. Organizing workers can be that much harder in a smaller, geographically isolated workplace. #cdnpoli #unions #writing #canada briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/…

Spoke today at the biennial conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) in Seattle! Fantastic Canadian philosophy panel with Joseph McGinn. #philosophy #canada

Canada needs national pharmacare. Our patchwork of means-tested provincial plans is failing the people who most need coverage and does not benefit from the same economics of scale. #canada #cdnpoli cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

Philosophy - as an academic discipline - is increasingly captured by AI hucksters. Chasing an influx of cash and jobs, philosophers relitigate stale AI debates, beating dead horses because tech bros and credulous governments pay them to. #philosophy #AI apablog.substack.com/p/the-threat-o…

A government should only restrict our liberties when it promotes some good or prevents a serious harm. It's never been clear who is harmed by having to occasionally see a cross or a hijab. #cdnpoli #quebec #secularism cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

I'm always looking for old, rare works of Canadian philosophy. At Vancouver's MacLeod's Books, I found John Clark Murray's "Introduction to Ethics" (1891). He was an early ethics professor at McGill University and fought to have McGill admit women. #McGill #philosophy #Montreal

I'm reading letters from 1943-1946 between Z.M. Hamilton (journalist and historian) and W.W. Gibson (pioneering aviator), who grew up in 19th-century Saskatchewan. It's refreshing how critical they were of the government's policies toward Indigenous people. #Canada #history

Since the U.S. is threatening to leave the CUSMA trade deal, it's worth reconsidering whether Canada even needs a deal with the U.S., before we give up more to secure one. #cdnpoli #Canada #CUSMA #USMCA canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…