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Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal economic, social and environmental policy, especially in the areas of climate change, artificial intelligence and industrial strategy. Hadrian edits the monthly Shift Storm newsletter on climate and labour.
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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed
The current windfall could be Canadian oil’s final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning
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Canada’s EV shift is stuck between a rock and a hard place
The following is a re-print of the February 2026 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Where does the climate movement go from here?
The following is a re-print of the December 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Whose (artificial) intelligence?
The many contradictions of the AI moment
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Canada is doing way worse on climate than you think
The following is a re-print of the November 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Is Carney’s climate credibility crumbling?
The following is a re-print of the October 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Canadian climate policy a decade after the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015 by 196 countries amid a wave of global urgency to confront the defining crisis of our time—climate change.…
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Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
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Reconciliation on the altar of extractive nationalism
The following is a re-print of the September 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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A eulogy for 1.5 degrees
The following is a re-print of the August 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Carney’s initial “major projects” list disappoints. Where’s the industrial strategy?
The initial tranche of nation-building projects selected by the Carney government is as disappointing as it is predictable—but it is a failure more for what…
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