Maxime Dagenais It’s the time of year again! The moment when we, once again, reveal the Wilson Book Prize and Viv Nelles Essay Prize finalists. And like I say each year, like a broken record: “this year’s competition is as strong as ever.” (Max, 2017-20) Historians in Canada and abroad are producing some incredible and … Continue reading 2020 Wilson Prize Finalists!

Mack Penner, McMaster University  Questions about the relationship between the local and the global are among the most enduring issues in ongoing debates about neoliberalism. For the late historian and theorist Moishe Postone, who emphasizes the global, it is possible to view the history of the twentieth century in terms of the “rise and decline … Continue reading Neoliberal Ideas and Settler Colonialism

Steacy Easton, York University Thinking about neoliberalism and place, or the recent economic system and place, in relationship to resource extraction, the more I am convinced that our current economy is a kind of shangri la. In a neoliberal context, extractive industry reduces a place to its resources: the life-span of a place is tied directly … Continue reading Neoliberalism and the Culture of Extractive Industry

Nicholas Fast, University of Toronto Across Canada and the United States during the spring of 2020, thousands of workers in meat-processing plants contracted COVID-19 through workplace spread. The most notable case in Canada was that of High River, Alberta, where almost half of the 2000 workers contracted the virus and spread it within the surrounding … Continue reading Neoliberalism, Packinghouses, and COVID-19

Beyond Borders will publish a series of articles on the topic of Neoliberalism and Canada, guest edited by Mack Penner and Nick Fast. Today’s article is the second of their series! Stay tuned for others! Roberta Lexier, Mount Royal University In 1956, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) replaced its founding document – The Regina Manifesto – with … Continue reading Abdication of Opposition: The CCF/NDP and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Canada

Beyond Borders will publish a series of articles on the topic of Neoliberalism and Canada, guest edited by Mack Penner and Nick Fast. Today's article is the first of their series! Stay tuned for others! Will Langford, University of Alberta When a transnational group of economists, businessmen, and civil servants formed the Mont Pelerin Society … Continue reading The Early History of Neoliberalism in Canada during World War II

In episode 7 of our Wilson Institute Speaker Series, Self-Isolation Edition, we have our long overdue chat with our 2019 Corisini Fellows: Matthieu Carron and Julia Pyryeskina.  For those of you that are new to the Wilson Institute: every year, thanks to the generosity of Bob and Bev Corsini, we are able to offer short term … Continue reading Catching up with our 2019 Corsini Fellows, Matt Caron and Julia Pyryeskina

On 3 December 2020, Dr. Jason Opal presented a paper at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History titled American Democracy after Trump: Hopes, Fears, and Precedents.  Dr. Jason Opal is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill and is an associate of the Wilson Institute. He studies colonial North America, … Continue reading American Democracy after Trump: Hopes, Fears, and Precedents, with Jason Opal