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Fast Facts: Placing Community at the Heart of the Recovery from COVID
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 23, 2022 While the COVID-19 pandemic shows no sign of ending anytime soon, public debates have shifted from emergency response to re-opening…
Energy giant Drax’s monopoly of BC’s wood pellet industry must be investigated, union, conservation and public policy groups demand
VANCOUVER — The company operating the world’s largest wood-fired thermal electricity plant has too much control of British Columbia’s wood pellet industry and must be ordered to divest of some…
Work Life: Remembering Jay Cowan
In the late 1970s, it was almost impossible to open a newspaper or listen to a local news broadcast and not run up against Jay Cowan’s name. In the morning…
Fast Facts: Adult Education— Unearth this Buried Treasure
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 26, 2022 Adult education in Manitoba is a largely buried treasure. Outstanding work is done throughout the province, but the full potential…
The Saturday Debate: Is there a made-in-Canada solution to high inflation?
It’s 2022 and pandemic-weary Canadians are worried about inflation. In November, consumer prices were up 4.7 per cent compared to a year earlier, fuelled by sharp increases at the gas…
Unchecked inequality is driving child poverty
Take a guess: what year was Ontario richest? Was it 1945? 1967? 2002? The correct answer is 2019. That year, inflation-adjusted economic activity per person — what economists call real…
End fracking industry’s free ride with water; groups urge government to include water subsidies in gas royalty review
VANCOUVER – Public health, public policy and environmental organizations say the government must expand its current review of the fracking industry’s low natural gas royalty rates to include the significant…
Half a million Ontario children growing up in poverty, new report shows
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Half a million Ontario children are growing up in poverty, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) revealed today….
2021 Living Wages for Nova Scotia reflect cost of living and lack of government support
Governments can do much more to support workers READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX, NS—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia released Living Wages in Nova Scotia 2021: Working for…
Living Wages for Nova Scotia 2021
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COVID-19 didn’t kill neoliberalism; we must do it ourselves
Neoliberalism is a broad term used to describe a ruthless variant of economic thinking that weakens a country’s immune system, making its population vulnerable to poverty and other social malaise….
84 doctors, health experts & economists across Canada call on BC government to show national leadership with 10 days paid sick leave
VANCOUVER—Eighty four signatories to an open letter published today say they want the BC government to show national leadership because its actions will set the bar for other provinces and…
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