{"id":248528,"date":"2025-09-19T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=248528"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:51:36","slug":"lancement-du-livre-the-great-canadian-reset","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/events\/lancement-du-livre-the-great-canadian-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: The Great Canadian Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ludovic Viger (Barlow Books, Oct. 15, 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada is at a crossroads. From housing and healthcare to jobs, energy, and even media, we\u2019re facing challenges that old ideas of \u201cgrowth vs. redistribution\u201d can\u2019t fix. Grocery bills are up nearly 30% since 2020. Housing remains out of reach for most. And only one in five Canadians believe the next generation will be better off (2025 Edelman Trust Barometer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The Great Canadian Reset<\/em>, author Ludovic Viger makes a powerful case: the real issue isn\u2019t just affordability or inequality, it\u2019s the end of economic growth itself. His \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatcanadianreset.substack.com\/p\/a-third-way-for-canada\">third way<\/a>\u201d vision calls for a revival of co-ops as practical, democratic tools that can buffer Canadians against supply shocks, Big Grocery, real estate speculation, and shrinking household incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viger\u2019s perspective on resilience isn\u2019t abstract. It reveals real Canadian stories of scale and success, and his book is both a battle cry and a roadmap for a more sustainable, people-powered future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Co-op Week (Oct. 13)&nbsp;approaching\/here,&nbsp;<em>The Great Canadian Reset<\/em>&nbsp;is a timely and inspiring resource that&#8217;s ideal for educating members, students, and communities about how co-ops can move from the margins to the mainstream of Canadian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Available October 15 wherever books are sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ludovic Viger (Barlow Books, Oct. 15, 2025) Canada is at a crossroads. From housing and healthcare to jobs, energy, and even media, we\u2019re facing challenges that old ideas of \u201cgrowth vs. redistribution\u201d can\u2019t fix. Grocery bills are up nearly 30% since 2020. Housing remains out of reach for most. And only one in five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":248527,"template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[163],"class_list":["post-248528","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-co-op-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/248528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248528"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.coop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=248528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}