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  • No strings attached

    As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the  provincial…

  • What we can learn from Québec’s Health in All Policies approach

    One notable element is that it requires a health impact assessment to be conducted on policies within and outside of the health sector. This is…

  • No Strings Attached: Canada’s health care deal lacks key conditions

    There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.…

  • Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19

    In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in…

  • Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19

    For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.

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    Greenlighting fracking while protecting treaty rights?

    Agreement with BC aside, 1000s of gas wells await Blueberry River First Nations When the Blueberry River First Nations took the provincial government to court…

  • No strings attached

    There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

  • Still so far from home: An update on BC’s 114,000 homes promise

    There is a huge opportunity for the BC government, under new leadership, to address housing affordability by making major investments in non-market housing. A growing…

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