Kevin Partridge, PhD

Very much hope journalists will investigate the cancellation of the 2026 annual meeting of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. This is a pretty seismic event in Canadian Higher Ed.

Sadly, given the state of Canadian journalism, I'm not holding my breath.

Body sat for 11 days after B.C. overdose death in 'first-of-its kind' supportive housing complex | CBC News CBC has learned that staff at a celebrated B.C. complex-care housing complex didn't find the body of a 60-year-old resident until nearly 11 days after she overdosed in her room, despite supports that ...

What is "a permissive approach to housing"? Does a lack of housing EVER make the situation better?
More supports sounds like a good idea but always people need #housingfirst
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Homelessness on the rise in America Homelessness in America is at a record high with more than 770,000 unhoused Americans in 2024. Shelter service agencies say the number of working homeless is growing too. It's a symptom of what's bein...

The interview can be viewed here:

More funding needed to support Ottawa's overdose prevention strategy: report Around 207 opioid-related deaths were reported in Ottawa in 2023, a nearly three-fold increase from 2019.

I couldn’t agree more with @ottawapublichealth.ca.

We can’t solve the overdose and addiction crisis in Centretown without significant investments in housing, addiction treatment, frontline harm reduction and health care.

ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...

Here’s the thing — Poilievre must know his refusal to do the normal security check and get a security clearance during a sovereignty and security crisis has been badly hurting him with a LOT of voters. His excuse makes no rational, or even strategic sense.

So I’m assuming he knows he can’t get it.

Have renters been forgotten this election campaign? | CBC News Rents and other housing costs are rising and so is the proportion of renters in Canada. Tenants say they are left in precarious positions and feel unheard and under-represented in the federal election...

Part of the problem with the housing 'debate' in Canada is that there is far too much emphasis on private ownership (typically seen as a means to build wealth) and little discussion of protecting the ability to rent.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Keep Housing on the Ballot: Advocating for Non-Profit Housing in the Changing Political Landscape

TODAY: Homelessness on the Ballot - online at noon ET with me for Ottawa Alliance to End Homelessness www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/keep_housing...

The Paradox of Prosperity: How Urban Renewal Pushes Workers to the Periphery By the time I met Cokethia Goodman and her children, they had been homeless for three months. Their ordeal began on an afternoon in August 2018, when Cokethia discovered a terse letter from her lan…

"The myth that hard work will lead to stability has been shattered, revealing a stark disconnect between the story America tells about itself and the reality of deepening precarity.”

An excerpt from my book, There Is No Place for Us, is out today in @literaryhub.bsky.social:

Ontario judge grants injunction to keep consumption sites open for now | Globalnews.ca Superior Court Justice John Callaghan says all sites slated to close under the new law by April 1 can remain open until 30 days after he decides the case.

NEW: A judge has granted an injunction to keep supervised consumption sites open in Toronto beyond the March 31 deadline set by the province.

They will remain open now for 30 days after he reaches his final decision. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1110359...

A young women (Sarah DeRoo d. 2020) sitting on a chair in a sleeveless purple top.

Grief is an ocean and I live on the shore.

The CMHC is doing good work in providing useful and accessible housing plans in many different parts of Canada.
nhc-cnl.ca/publications...

The report can be downloaded from this page: nhc-cnl.ca/publications...

The presence of Non-Market housing is essential to providing housing and providing real competition in the housing market!

German tourists detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center for weeks Two German citizens have been held for weeks at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego after trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico on tourist visas, according to their friends and family, who say ...

For anyone needing a US source for this (with interviews featuring the friend of one German and the partner of the other German)

Some pretty nice designs in here. Kudos to the consultant team that led the work. The federal government has unveiled its new Housing Design Catalogue with 50 housing designs for rowhouses, fourplexes, sixplexes, and accessory dwelling units www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

Proposed class action lawsuit against 'Freedom Convoy' organizers clears hurdle - Canada News A proposed class action lawsuit against those who allegedly organized and funded the "Freedom Convoy" protests cleared another hurdle on Thursday when the Ontario Court of Appeal refused to dismiss th...

~ The Freedom Convoy's appeal was dismissed today, allowing class action to proceed

Some downtown Ottawa residents &businesses are suing for $290M, alleging personal suffering &business losses from the 2022 protest

It has not yet been certified as a class action

www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...

It is so frustrating to see so many options available to make things better and decision-makers say, "nah, we need to spend more money to make people suffer ande die."

The Liberals should hammer the CPC on this. Poilievre is providing them real ammunition. It's such a misread of the situation.

The career politician with the gold-plated pension & the taxpayer-provided house says he doesn't want to help Canadian workers who could face financial ruin.

#CdnPoli

If only...

Those big GDP numbers about interprovincial trade barriers are wrong - CCPA A lot of public discourse in Canada right now is about how we need to urgently remove interprovincial trade barriers in the face of the Trump tariff threat. But if we look at the actual evidence, poli...

A thoughtful article on the actual difficulties of interprovincial trade in Canada and a hint of how the current media coverage is infused with neo-liberal economic fantasies. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Nazi collaborator’s name found on Victims of Communism monument Canadian Heritage engraved the nameplates before deciding who to commemorate

The name of a Nazi collaborator was engraved on #Ottawa’s Monument to the Victims of Communism, according to internal emails obtained by Ricochet through Access to Information.

Journalist @taylornoakes.bsky.social reports:

ricochet.media/politics/naz...

#Cdnpoli #Canada

Every level of government is failing because they continue to believe that "the market" will solve the housing crisis.

May peace, prosperity and happiness greet you all in the new year!
Happy New Year!
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!
新年快乐! (xīn nián kuài lè)
새해 복 많이 받으세요!

Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds The warning comes from an expert roundtable led by researchers from King's and the Fairness Foundation

Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds

The warning comes from an expert roundtable led by researchers from King's and the Fairness Foundation www.kcl.ac.uk/news/wealth-...

Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis with Carolyn Whitzman Whitzman is an expert advisor to UBC's Housing Assessment Resource Tools, senior housing researcher at U of T's School of Cities, and author of Home Truths, Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis.

Interesting conversation between the new federal housing minister, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, and Carolyn Whitzman, the author of Home Truths.
www.uncommons.ca/p/fixing-can...

FINALLY

I'm a researcher and I am tired of the constant replacement of actual action with studies and more studies...

It is difficult to put into words how wrong this is. This is the capital city of one of the wealthiest states in the world. Even a brief period of homelessness can cause years of problems. ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/12/13/o...

We did it! Thanks Mayor Sutcliffe! ottawa.citynews.ca/2024/12/13/o...

The winter newsletter for this large research project on housing and homelessness is just released. safeandaffordable.ca