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Rapport sur les travailleurs racialisés et autochtones dans des emplois à risque d’infection par la COVID-19
TORONTO—Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les travailleurs autochtones et racialisés ont été plus nombreux, tout au long de la…
The post-pandemic future: More supportive housing for semi-independent seniors
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As our population ages, let’s rely less on long-term care and more on supportive housing:a cost-effective way for semi-independent seniors to live with dignity and independence.
All across Canada, children are growing up in poverty
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We mapped out child poverty rates across Canada.
Patching up Canada’s income security net: Lessons from the pandemic
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The big question now for Canada is whether, by design or default, we will revert to the “same old, same old” after the crisis.
Oppression will try to steal your ability to dream. Don’t let it.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately high impact on Black communities. It’s exceptionally difficult to produce a vision of freedom in such rough times. But we must keep freedom dreaming.
At the WTO, Canada fiddles while the pandemic rages on
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Temporarily suspending trade rules covering COVID-19 vaccines and treatments would speed up the global recovery. Our government has other plans.
Access after COVID-19: How disability culture can transform life and work
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The COVID-19 crisis has revealed the necessity of changing people’s taken-for-granted understandings of disability, to provoke a transformation in how people perceive living with disability and difference.
A $15 minimum wage: Workers paid a steep price for the three-year delay
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Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.
Marked absent: Navigating the post-secondary policy landscape
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Students are more than political “changemaker” talking points
A well-being approach to governance
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear the strong connections between health and broader social, economic and political circumstances. It’s time for a well-being approach to governance that is capable of addressing these connections.
COVID-19 didn’t kill neoliberalism; we must do it ourselves
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It is becoming increasingly clear that our 40-year nightmare is not over. It’s up to us, argues Tranjan, to end it once and for all.
Big change
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Five readings to help us understand what’s needed and what it will take
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