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Rising inflation exposes the gap between the richest and poorest
The rapid rise in inflation in Canada—and around the world—is significantly cutting into household income. Inflation reached 7.7% this May, its highest level since 1983.
Could decolonizing policy redress environmental injustice and racism?
The Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) is the matriarch of environmental legislation in Canada. But it’s been over 20 years since it’s been revised. And environmental advocacy groups have a lot to say about what changes could advance environmental justice and equity in Canada via Bill S-5.
Citizenship education: It’s about more than the curriculum
It’s been a few months since I defended my dissertation on provincial public education policies in Canada (particularly in relation to students and citizenship) and I’ve had some time to both (not) think about, and reflect on my research with a little bit of distance.
How public funding for private options reinforces school segregation in Quebec
Erika Shaker, in conversation with Anne Plourde, researcher at l’Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socioéconomiques (IRIS)
Barriers and opportunities: How Canadian activists see degrowth
Degrowth is a social movement and field of research founded on the premise that perpetual economic growth is incompatible with the biophysical limits of our planet.
Unearth this buried treasure: adult education in Manitoba
When she was 34 years old and a single mother of four living on social assistance in a large public housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End, Aja Oliver saw a sign at a community centre for an Adult Learning Centre. She had not finished high school, had struggled, as did everyone in her family, with the many complexities of life in poverty, and was fed up with being on social assistance. She ventured in. Her life has not been the same since.
Making a living in Saskatchewan
This year the CCPA Saskatchewan office released our living wage calculations, hot on the heels of the provincial government’s decision to raise what is currently Canada’s lowest minimum wage at $11.81 per hour to $15 per hour over the next two years.
What’s so bad about growth?
All of us are trained from an early age to be big fans of growth. We want children to grow. We want flowers to grow. We want gardens and trees and crops to grow. Growth is good, that’s the idea.
Canada’s fight against inflation: Bank of Canada could induce a recession
History tells us that the Bank of Canada has a 0% success rate in fighting inflation by quickly raising interest rates. If a pilot told me that they’d only ever attempted a particular landing three times in the past 60 years with a 0% success rate, that’s not a plane I’d want to be on. Unfortunately, that looks likes the plane all Canadians are on now.
The Monitor, July/August 2022
The Future of Growth Download 4.32 MB Issue highlights: The benefits of an inclusive infrastructure model: Part of a trilogy: 1) Trish Hennessy examines promising…
Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2022
Imbalance Sheet: What we lose when we privatize public education This summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on how the privatization of our public schools has…
Bank of Canada has zero per cent success rate controlling inflation at present level without recession: analysis
Recession triggered in every instance over past 60 years READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada has never been successful engineering a “soft…
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