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Fast Facts: Education property tax cut is misguided effort
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on July 7, 2021 Manitoba property owners just received a large cheque in the mail from the provincial…
Putting Home at the Heart of Refugee Resettlement – Report Summary
This is The summary report of a research project that began in 2015, the primary intention of which was to chart the housing trajectories of…
Putting Home at the Heart of Refugee Resettlement
Download 2.13 MB 103 pages The culmination of a 5-year study based on interviews with recently arrived former refugees finds that securing good housing is…
The Lac-Mégantic oil train catastrophe eight years later: Justice still denied
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Forty-seven people died that night—their hopes and dreams obliterated, future wiped out.
The Building Sustainable Communities Program After Two Years: Where Did the Money Go?
Download 542.18 KB 13 pages The Building Sustainable Communities Program After Two Years: Where Did the Money Go? report by Shauna MacKinnon was prompted by…
Inequality, employment and COVID-19
Priorities for fostering an inclusive recovery in BC Download 1.5 MB52 pages This report examines the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the BC job market…
Employment impacts of COVID-19 in BC highly unequal, especially based on gender and race
Major new study zeros in on first year pandemic job market data READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — Some job creation can be expected…
Rushing back to “normal”: Are we leaving the most vulnerable behind?
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The rush back to some semblance of normalcy is understandable, but this sentiment can’t blind us to the work ahead.
Five books to understand… Media democracy
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In this new Monitor feature we invite a prominent Canadian to provide a reading list for better understanding a pressing topic.
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
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Media concentration in [the U.S. and Brazil] has reached phenomenal levels, and it is compounded by the massive spread of pernicious fake news.
Why can’t we know more about what political parties know about us?
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As it stands right now, political parties in Canada face little oversight or transparency requirements for the data they collect and create about Canadian citizens.
The media hasn’t even begun to reckon with sexual violence and neither have we
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For decades, the media has been circling the issue of sexual violence, mirroring society’s discomfort.
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