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Budget Watch 2021: How Canada can budget for Buy America
Canadian business is understandably concerned about Buy America conditions on Biden’s US$2.3-trillion COVID recovery plan. But lobbying U.S. governments for waivers for Canadian suppliers can only get us so far. In addition, the Trudeau government should increase the pool of transit, water and green energy projects these firms can bid on—by attaching sustainable and social purchasing criteria to badly needed public infrastructure upgrades here in Canada.
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If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants
Andy Morffew (Flickr Creative Commons) Throughout 2019, we saw multiple variations on the same grim headline: “Dead Whale Found With 48 Pounds of Plastic…
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An agenda for a progressive Canada-U.S. trade partnership
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Trade, gender and the international rules-based order
CCPA submission to the federal government white paper on a Feminist Foreign Policy As part of Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy White Paper consultation, the federal…
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CCPA joins global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay
Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to trillion-dollar global logistics, internet, merchandising and entertainment behemoth was fast and ferocious. Behind the same-day deliveries and trend-setting television series…
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Prorogation’s silver lining: More time to press for a just recovery
I don’t know who first used “build back better” as a slogan for the post-COVID recovery. Today the rather awful catchphrase is unavoidable wherever you…
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What kind of normal do we want? A response.
In a column published on the IRIS blog and translated for the CCPA’s Behind The Numbers blog, Guillaume Hébert says that the COVID-19 crisis marks…
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Inconvenience and indifference
Photo by Sally T. Buck (Flickr Creative Commons) Indifference, said Antonio Gramsci, is “the mainspring of history.” By that he meant it is not the…
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CCPA @ 40
When the CCPA was founded 40 years ago, it was in direct opposition to a handful of right-wing, “free market” policy groups who, despite being…
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Taking Stock of CETA
Early Impacts of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Download 209.56 KB22 pages The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the…
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Canada’s lackluster performance under CETA should be a lesson
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