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How organizing led Nanaimo to adopt the doughnut economics framework
They started during the worst of the pandemic—and won.
Why Canada needs grassroots climate organizing
The climate crisis is a problem too big for anyone to solve on their own.
The Monitor, September/October 2023
The world is on fire and we have to put it out Download Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here When it comes…
Funding peer support for mental health should be a key component of a national strategy
The federal government hasn’t fulfilled its promises on mental health. It should immediately scale up funding for peer support services
Some Canadian lawmakers want to go after whistleblowers in agriculture
Agricultural gag or “ag-gag” laws have slowly gained a foothold in Canada, putting animals, workers, the public and the planet at risk
Property tax reform can address economic and housing inequality in BC, new research
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–The explosion of housing prices has become a massive source of inequality in BC, which can be addressed with progressive…
Canadian workers are realizing that strikes beat inflation
Prices are not going to go down to what they were before. If workers want to keep their purchasing power, we need to fight for it.
How much is $8.28 billion? Greenbelt giveaway is a gold mine
With that kind of money, developers could buy 60,000 brand new Cadillacs — or 100 high-end private jets
Child care also an austerity victim
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 29, 2023 Manitoba billboards promoting $10/day childcare create the perception that the Province of Manitoba has increased…
Revitalizing the conditions of care in Manitoba
The outsized burden placed on continuing care workers by the pandemic has in many ways gotten heavier.
AFB 2024: Building momentum—A federal budget for now and the future
The Alternative Federal Budget for 2024 shows what the federal government could achieve on a range of issues if it were ambitious
AFB 2024: Agriculture
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve in the agriculture sector
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