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The Populist Threat to European institutions

By Henry Milner

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Social Policy

Guaranteed Minimum Incomes: Are They the Answer to Poverty?

By Ruth Rose

Environment

Debate: The Trans Mountain pipeline

By John Richards

First Nations

Where The Past is Present

By Dale Eisler

Canada

Ontario’s “Places That Don’t Matter” Send a Message

By Zack Taylor

Culture

Will The Digital Shift Save La Presse?

By Eric Hamovitch

Book Reviews

Big Thinking the Democratic Recession

By Gareth Morley

International

Aftershocks of the Brexit Eruption

By Eric Shaw

Economy

Housing Price Lunacy Moves East

By Josh Gordon

No. 44

The Current Issue

Quebec and Ontario both elected new and more conservative governments in 2018. In Inroads 44, we examine these elections in the context of broader trends in the politics of the two provinces.

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Culture

Understanding the “Somewheres”

An introduction by John Richards and Bob Chodos

By Bob Chodos

Book Reviews

A Realist Approach to Islamism in France

Two Book Reviews

By John Richards

Book Reviews

A Country Illegible Even to Itself

A serious and honest, but not wholly successful, attempt to explain Putin’s Russia

By Seva Gunitsky

Culture

La Pasionaria

A poem

By Philip Resnick

International

Chile’s Voters Seek the Golden Mean

“Governments will change, but history driven by the force of an entire country cannot be held back.”

By Geoff White

Canada

Quebec’s New Government and the Issues it Faces

The October 1 vote could prove to be what political scientists term a realignment election, with new forces emerging and old ones fading.

By Henry Milner

Canada

Indigenous Policy in Quebec: Four Challenges

Friendly advice for the new minister, Sylvie D’Amours

By Geoffrey Kelley

Canada

A Realignment Election?

October 1 marked a new phase in the splintering of Quebec’s party system.

By Eric Montigny

International

Turkey’s Election: A Step Toward Electoral Authoritarianism

Recent election took place under a state of emergency that limited individual freedoms and rights and allowed the President to silence and intimidate the opposition.

By Semih Çakir

International

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán: Populist Message, Machine Methods

Orbán has managed to keep his base mobilized against a series of supposed enemies since 2010, creating supporters that he can always turn out to rally for him.

By Zsuzsanna Magyar

International

What’s The Matter with Italy?

Italy is the laboratory of a political experiment.

By Giorgio Malet

International

Sweden is Still Waiting for a New Government

A piece by Richard Murray and Olof Kleberg

By Richard Murray

Who We Are

Bob Chodos

Bob Chodos has been managing editor of Inroads since 2002. His magazine career began with the groundbreaking Canadian alternative newsmagazine of the 1970s, the Last Post, of which he was one of the founders.... Read More

Frances Boylston

Frances Boylston has led a very international life. After obtaining her degree in sociology at a South Carolina college, she became one of the first Peace Corps volunteers and was posted to the Philippines... Read More

Henry Milner

Henry Milner has published eight books, the most recent of which is The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts (University Press of New England, 2010), and edited four others. He has also written... Read More

John Richards

John Richards is a member of the faculty in the Graduate Public Policy School at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He has written extensively on social policy in Canada, primarily via the C.D. Howe... Read More