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Fast Facts: Justice system lacking fairness
Almost half of the people in Manitoba agree there is a problem with the Canadian justice system when it comes to treatment of Indigenous Peoples…
BC government decision to continue excluding farm workers from minimum wage protection very disappointing
Vancouver — Although there are positive elements to today’s BC government announcement in response to the second report of the Fair Wages Commission, the government’s rejection…
Tax cuts won’t cut it: Low-wage workers need a raise
A month ago, PC Leader Doug Ford floated a trial balloon: he would freeze Ontario’s minimum wage at $14 but take everyone making less…
Nearly 200 arrests and counting
Image: Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons) The build started with a single West Coast cedar tree. In the early hours of March 10, against the…
Ten things to know about the newly signed federal-provincial-territorial housing framework agreement
A federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) framework agreement on housing was signed on April 10 in Toronto. It supports the Trudeau government’s National Housing Strategy, which was released last fall.Here…
Media advisory: Public policy experts available to comment on Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
OTTAWA AND VANCOUVER — With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley set to meet Sunday in Ottawa on…
Fast Facts: He Had a Dream
Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis…
CCPA–BC Submission on the Development of a BC Poverty Reduction Plan
Download 1.88 MB4 pages This submission was made to the BC government to share the CCPA-BC’s recommendations regarding the development of a British Columbia Poverty…
Fast Facts: Na-gah mo Waabishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino (Singing White Crane Flying North)
Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation In many Indigenous Nations across the world, research is a contentious word because it has often been associated with…
Na-gah mo Waasbishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino: Singing White Crane Flying North
Gathering A Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation Download 4.08 MB44 pages In Winnipeg, a city with a high population of Indigenous peoples, incorporating Indigenous ways of…
Homelessness and employment: The case of Calgary
On March 8, I gave a guest presentation to students in Professor Naomi Lightman’s Sociology of Work class at the University of Calgary. I was joined…
We need a budget for the people
The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2018 provides us with a blueprint READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX—The Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2018, released by the…
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