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Are multinational companies owed compensation for COVID-19 emergency measures?
In the context of COVID-19, state restrictions requiring businesses to close, price controls over health equipment, and emergency support programs could all give rise to costly investor–state dispute settlement suits.
Fast Fast: Siting a nuclear waste repository in NW Ontario – who decides?
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, March 24, 2021
Ontario pandemic school funding: a board-by-board, school-by-school analysis
What’s the true story about what’s happening at Ontario’s schools during the pandemic? Ricardo Tranjan examines funding across the province, school board by school board.
Ontario budget: Tax hikes are the only sustainable option
Don’t expect any big surprises in the March 24th Ontario budget. The top-line numbers in the document are already well known, more or less, and so is the government that will deliver it.
Making it easier for Ontarians to drink more isn’t a good idea
As 7-Eleven applies to serve beer and wine in 61 stores across Ontario, spare a thought for alcohol policy experts. Around the world, scholars have…
Costing the recovery
David Macdonald’s presentation to the Standing Committee on Finance on March 18, 2021 regarding Bill C-14 and COVID-19 spending.
Clarity on Manitoba’s COVID spending
On March 10th, 2021 in the Manitoba Legislature Question Period, Premier Pallister cited a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and claimed…
Tirer la sonnette d’alarme
Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur le secteur des services de garde à l’enfance au Canada Download 754.5 KB52 pages Chaque année depuis 2014, nous sondons…
Sounding the Alarm
COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s precarious child care sector Download 718.73 KB45 pages Every year since 2014, the CCPA has surveyed child care fees in order…
Canada’s child care sector struggling under weight of COVID-19
Preschool-age fees rise in 27 of 37 large Canadian cities while many sites face existential crisis READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Full-time licensed child care…
Le secteur des services de garde à l’enfance au Canada peine sous le poids de la COVID-19
Les frais de garde pour les enfants d’âge préscolaire ont augmenté dans vingt-sept de trente-septgrandes villes canadiennes et de nombreux services degarde font face à…
Nova Scotia’s Child Care Sector Needs Urgent Investment
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a report today that provides evidence that without urgent investment we risk losing the child care spaces we…
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