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Fast Facts: Nine Appeals and Seven Months Later
Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship is not living up to its name. Problems with the Environment Act, the environmental assessment, licensing and appeal process, and…
Canada’s Infrastructure Gap
Where It Came From and Why It Will Cost So Much To Fix It Download 442.3 KB 16 pages Underinvestment in infrastructure is not a…
State of the Inner City 2012
Breaking Barriers Building Bridges Download 1022.82 KB36 pages This year’s State of the Inner City Report: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges speaks to concerns raised by community-based organizations…
Canadian pig industry: the need for change
In Canada, large industrial operations designed to raise hundreds to thousands of pigs in confinement have largely replaced the small, mixed farms that dominated the…
The Great Equalizer
The Case For Investing In the Toronto Public Library Download 626.14 KB 42 pages This report looks at the popularity of Toronto’s public libraries—the busiest in…
Toronto libraries popular but underfunded: Report
TORONTO—Toronto’s public libraries are the busiest in North America and second busiest in the world but have suffered from 20 years of chronic underfunding, says…
Why 38 Ontario municipalities oppose the Canada – EU trade deal
To date, 38 municipalities have passed motions expressing concern about the closed door negotiations for a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) going on between…
Errol Black: A truly remarkable life
If we’re very lucky, every once in a while someone special will come into our lives. Errol Black was special. He would be the first…
The Attack on Organics
Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can…
Keeping them at Bay
Practices of municipal exclusion Download 917.65 KB31 pages Since the 1960s, planning for community-based care for people with disabilities has been a major focus in…
Keeping them at bay: Practices of municipal exclusion
Control over the use of land is politically charged, and has frequently led to cases of unfair treatment in the courts and human rights tribunals.…
Food Sovereignty In Canada
Movement growing to control our own food and agriculture What do community gardens on vacant urban lots, mobilizations against sea-lice infestations on the B.C. coast,…
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