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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn’t good health policy
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Students and rising tuition in Manitoba
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on September 23, 2026.
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Building our budget together? The limits of Nova Scotia’s “consultation”
Surely listening to the public in advance of the budget would be a good idea?
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Canada can’t stop relying on temporary pilot programs
From worker supports to immigration to housing, the federal government has a really hard time committing—but pilot programs aren’t a mode of governance
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Dynacare workers are standing up to U.S. health care in Manitoba
The private lab—owned by a U.S. corporation—oversaw a relative drop in workers’ wages. Manitoba stepped in on the side of the company.
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Air travel in Canada is about to get more expensive
The impacts of airport privatization on travellers and workers
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Strengthening Labour Standards in Nova Scotia: Progress and the work that remains
CCPA Nova Scotia director Dr. Christine Saulnier speaks on Bill 256.
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Manitoba Living Wage Update 2026
The 2026 living wage update for Winnipeg, Brandon, and Thompson provides an up-to-date monitor on working poverty in Manitoba.
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn’t good health policy
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“One of the hardest places to organize in the country”: Understanding and overcoming barriers to unionization in Nova Scotia
This report clearly lays the case for why the Nova Scotia government can and should enact legal and regulatory changes to facilitate unionization.
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Dismantling gender pay discrimination in Canada: Current trends and policy responses
The gender pay gap has narrowed but remains unacceptably wide, with the average woman earning only 72% of what men earn
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Social housing in Manitoba: Examining the historical impacts of neoliberalism
30 years of neoliberalism in Manitoba social housing policy, and how to resist it
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A hinge moment for unions in Canada’s new industrial era
Canadian unions must help shape a new era of industrial policy in favour of workers as we face an unprecedented threat in Donald Trump
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The BC election no one wanted
The government of British Columbia is calling an election, just two years into a majority mandate and with an opposition mostly in…
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Back to Blakeney: Keeping oil industry super-profits in Saskatchewan
The province has implemented excess profits taxes on the oil industry before. With no end in sight to the Iran war, it…
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Students and rising tuition in Manitoba
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on September 23, 2026.
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Doing more with less: 10 facts about school funding in Ontario
The numbers show that schools and educators in Ontario are being asked to do more with less, and students are paying the…
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Building our budget together? The limits of Nova Scotia’s “consultation”
Surely listening to the public in advance of the budget would be a good idea?
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn’t good health policy
