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Fast Facts: The Automatic Trigger For an Environmental Review Not so Automatic
What The Frack Manitoba (WTFMB) sent a 12-page letter in May, with supporting evidence, to the Federal Minister of the Environment and Climate Change and…
Provincial call for Winnipeg Public-Private Partnership for Sewage Stinks
Download 409.56 KB 7 pages In mId may, 2021 the province of Manitoba demanded the City undertake a single source contract with Deloitte LLP for…
Ontario’s plan for education hurts the most marginalized students
As classes across the province come to an end, it is time to take stock of Ontario’s approach to public education over the past year.…
Open letter: Recommendations for Building an Early Learning and Child Care System in Nova Scotia
Dear Honourable Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, and Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development;…
Keys to tackling the affordable housing crisis in Nova Scotia
Like access to food, clean water, and health care, access to housing is a fundamental right to which all people are entitled.
Is Doug Ford’s government planning to cut taxes next year? Such a move would be an unmitigated disaster for Ontario
Less than a year out from the next Ontario election, campaign planning is in full swing for all parties. At this stage we know few…
Fast Facts: Time to flush P3 process for waste plant
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday June 18, 2021 When the province of Manitoba ordered the City of Winnipeg to undertake a market…
Major partnership receives funding to study how British Columbians are impacted by precarity, develop solutions for post-COVID era
(Vancouver) A six-year initiative to study the impacts of precarious work on the lives of British Columbians kicks off today, with the announcement of a $2.5…
Dangerous Distractions
Canada’s carbon emissions and the pathway to net zero Download 724.3 KB 16 pages Reducing emissions to zero is a clear concept, but “net zero”…
Net zero emissions: muddying the waters or real solutions?
VANCOUVER – Increasingly, government and industry talk about “net zero” when it comes to emissions reduction targets. But what does this really mean? Reducing emissions…
Not all retirement is made equal
A new CCPA report shows that retirement security is colour-coded in Canada
Fast Facts: Ageism, sexism combine to hamper elder care
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 15, 2021 For over a year now, Manitobans, like all Canadians, have been learning how the COVID-19…
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