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Leaving no one behind – CCPA-NS releases municipal report in advance of Fall elections
HALIFAX/K’jipuktuk – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia Office released a new report today on the state of municipalities in Nova Scotia ahead…
State of the Inner City 2024: Visioning a Just Transformation in Winnipeg’s Inner City
In response to the persistent lack of public funding to address poverty, trauma, and addictions, Winnipeg inner-city leaders are calling on the City of Winnipeg,…
New Tri Level Agreeement should focus on Equity, Community Development – State of the Inner City report 2024
Winnipeg, MB – The 2024 State of the Inner City report, titled “Visioning a Just Transformation in Winnipeg’s Inner City,” will be released on
State of the Inner City 2024: Visioning a Just Transformation in Winnipeg’s Inner City
State of the Inner City 2024: Visioning a Just Transformation in Winnipeg’s Inner City
New report sets out bold 10-year plan for integrated public transit throughout BC
UNCEDED SQUAMISH, TSLEIL-WAUTUTH AND MUSEQUEAM TERRITORIES/BURNABY, B.C.—Within the next decade, British Columbia’s local transit systems could be united into an upgraded provincewide public transit network,…
Regina’s road rage
If the supposed global “War on Cars” was true, then there is probably no city in North America where the automobile has won a more…
Quebec is cutting arts funding. Artists are fighting back.
You could hear the music from blocks away. More than a thousand dancers, painters, clowns, musicians, poets, and other cultural workers came out in Montreal…
Six Questions About the Future of Portage Place
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 29, 2024
Watch your step, buster!
My hometown of Ottawa boasts a pair of scenic and winding roadways on both sides of the Rideau Canal. One of them is the Queen…
Cities could be the engines for addressing crises—if we push them
Cities are the locus of social, environmental, and economic struggles. There are three fundamental conflicts and challenges that are playing out in cities: inequality, climate…
Cities are central to resolving the challenges of our time
Cities are a constant work in progress. Great cities attract great talent. They are where we find the most specialized health care. They provide for…
Cities are central to capitalism—and could be central to its undoing
The decades after the French Revolution were tumultuous in Paris. Every few years, it seemed, the popular classes, made up of the poor and oppressed…
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