Today I sit down with Nora Loreto, a Quebec City-based journalist and labour organizer, to discuss her five-volume Canada in Decline series — a forensic history of the dismantling of Canada’s social democracy by the forces of capital.
We discuss her wide-ranging, independent beat: Volume 1, The Social Safety Net (2024), traces the forty-year erosion of the welfare state. Volume 2, Corporate Control (2025), documents the privatization of Crown corporations and the financialization of housing and care. Volumes 3, on Canadian democracy, 4, on culture, the far right, and religion, and 5, on the security state, are on the way, and might even be out before Canada slides into full fascism.
We were also both pretty shocked to discover some uncanny biographical symmetries: we were both church organists, both our dads were teacher-librarians and our moms were English teachers. Throughout, we discuss how the zoomed-out coherence of a long-form project keeps the fragmentation of daily journalism in…
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