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Setting the stage for the 2020 Ontario budget
Transgender Day of Remembrance: Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living
Throughout the federal election, trans issues were rarely mentioned. Despite one party running with an explicit commitment to repeal Canada’s trans rights legislation and another…
Fast Facts: Ending Poverty, Our Collective Responsibility: 2019 Manitoba Throne Speech
Yesterday, Manitoba released its Speech from the Throne – the provincial government’s plan for the next couple of months while they’re in the Legislature making…
Public services, free trade and the Green New Deal
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Canada Pension Plan Fuels Climate Change Crisis
“Financial experts say millennials will have to save an entire planet to retire,” says the satirical Beaverton.
Fossil Futures
The Canada Pension Plan’s Failure to Respect the 1.5-Degree Celsius Limit Download 4.71 MB32 pages The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages one of…
Canada Pension Plan’s ongoing investments in fossil fuels: a moral and ecological failure and financial risk
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and…
Tax cuts won’t fix the affordability problem. Here are ten things that could.
Investment Annual cost Expand affordable child care $3 Billion Increase health care funding to keep pace with rising provincial health care costs $1.98 Billion Ensure…
Canada’s fossil fuel lobby influences policy and decisions for major federal government projects
There’s no doubt that climate change and fossil fuel extraction were vote determining for significant sections of the population in the federal election. These issues…
No new money for schools in Ontario fiscal update
The Ontario PC government has recently adopted a more moderate tone than the one struck in its first year at Queens Park, going so far…
Ontario fall update: Multi-year plan to squeeze public services continues
Government revenues are rising and the provincial deficit is melting away, but Ontario’s Finance Minister is sticking to his multi-year plan for significant cuts to…
Big Oil’s Political Reach
Mapping fossil fuel lobbying from Harper to Trudeau Download 1.41 MB 64 pages In Canada between 2011 and 2018 the fossil fuel industry was one…
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