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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,…
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The many consequences of austerity
April 8, 2024 In voting against the 2024-2027 municipal budget, Coun. Russ Wyatt stated that decades of low property taxes have resulted in “self-imposed austerity”,…
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Free contraception is a win for all Canadians
“Right now, Canada is the only country with universal health care that does not offer coverage for prescription drugs, including contraceptives.
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Basic research is the key to future progress
Decades before most of us had ever heard the phrase “novel coronavirus,” researchers at universities around the world were advancing our understanding of vaccines. Their…
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Beleaguered federal government unlikely to turn the page with restrained fiscal update
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms
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Missing teeth
As part of the March 2022 Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement, the federal government is creating a national public dental care plan—the most significant expansion…
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I’m a dentist. It’s time for public dental care in Canada
I see the failures of the privatized insurance system every day. We have a chance to start fixing it.
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Provincial anti-trans school policies are also attacks on public education
What’s behind Saskatchewan and New Brunswick’s targeting of queer and trans youth?
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AFB 2024: Public services
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on public service
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AFB 2024: Seniors’ care
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on seniors’ care
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Manitoba can’t afford cuts to parks, environmental protection
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 15, 2023
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