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Rethinking pink day
“Adults often tell young people to “be themselves” without acknowledging that for non-dominant-group students, being “themselves” often has real social penalties. While a “just be…
Challenging Racist British Columbia
150 Years and Counting Download 9.78 MB80 pages This booklet dives into the long history of racist policies that have impacted Indigenous, Black and racialized…
Challenging Racist British Columbia booklet weaves together history and present day anti-racist work during province’s 150th year
VANCOUVER — The 150th anniversary of British Columbia joining Canada arrives at a time when people and institutions are being asked to reckon with the…
If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants
Andy Morffew (Flickr Creative Commons) Throughout 2019, we saw multiple variations on the same grim headline: “Dead Whale Found With 48 Pounds of Plastic…
Monopolizing the Recovery
Canada and the WTO-TRIPS Waiver Proposal The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Trade Justice Network host a conversation with global experts on the Indian…
CCPA 2021 pre-budget submission to Finance Canada
Download 231.51 KB 7 pages In this submission, we highlight several key policy areas that demand immediate attention in Budget 2021, including investing in the…
Staffing the Crisis
The Capacity of Eleven Municipal Housing Departments Across Canada Download 2.05 MB28 pages This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal…
Groups urge BC government to delay ruling on unprecedented proposal to turn unlogged forests into wood pellets
VANCOUVER — Vast swaths of forest in British Columbia’s Fort Nelson region are in danger of being gobbled up to make low-value, climate-unfriendly wood pellets…
US farm groups and unions ask Biden to end CUSMA attack on Canada’s supply management system
On February 1, American farm, labour and civil society organizations formally asked the Biden-Harris administration to withdraw the attack on Canada’s dairy sector initiated by…
Fast Fasts: Manitoba Wage Wars
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 12, 2021 Since forming government in 2016, the provincial Conservative government has aggressively pursued a policy of…
Tripping over TRIPS
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