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An unexpected consequence of the pandemic: Poverty declined sharply in Canada
Thanks to pandemic benefits, Canada experienced a 18.9% drop in poverty between 2019 and 2020—the largest in decades. An extraordinary achievement in a national crisis. The largest decline in poverty…
Hunt for interprovincial trade barriers is stalling Canada’s post-pandemic reconstruction
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6 things you need to know about income inequality in Canada
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We need more public ownership in Canada’s telecom sector
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Rising inflation exposes the gap between the richest and poorest
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Canada’s fight against inflation: Bank of Canada could induce a recession
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What’s so bad about growth?
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Making a living in Saskatchewan
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Unearth this buried treasure: adult education in Manitoba
Less than a decade later, Aja is a highly-skilled counsellor at the North End Women’s Centre, and is well on her way to an undergraduate degree at the University of…
Barriers and opportunities: How Canadian activists see degrowth
To date, most writing about degrowth has focused on building the normative case for the necessity of degrowth, especially in the Global North. There is, however, a gap in the…
How public funding for private options reinforces school segregation in Quebec
undefinedBack in 2006 the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives co-published the report Who’s Calling the Shots? which assessed the presence of commercialization and private money in public education. It also…
Citizenship education: It’s about more than the curriculum
While we seem to increasingly find ourselves in polarized debates and camps on nearly every topic of conversation, something I’d wager most people agree on is that education is influenced…
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