John Sewell

Successfully influencing the political process seems like such an unlikely event that those who accomplish it often consider writing about their work before fading into the background. The forms vary from a short essay to a longer story about what happened, to an explanation of how the political system itself can permit outsiders to make…

Any talk about affordable housing in Canada turns quickly into a discussion about incomes. The two issues are very much intertwined, given the high cost of housing and the paltry incomes of a quarter of all Canadian households. It was not always so. In the 1960s, the federal government had agreements with many provincial governments (most notably Ontario) to fund the construction of rent-geared-to-income projects known as public…