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The Good, The Best, and the Imperfect: Measuring the Gender Gap
Why put together an index of gender equality in Canada? Why rush in where my better colleagues have warned me not to tread? As these things so often do, it…
The best and worst cities in Canada to be a woman in 2017: Study
OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) uncovers the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. Victoria ranks highest, while big…
Cost of Doing Nothing
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Download 1.27 MB44 pages As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the…
Fast Facts: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
The cost of doing nothing to prevent tragedy As the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) continues, a new study looks at the problems of reactive…
Sense of the Census: Income, wage gaps, and poverty
New Census numbers released this week show that overall incomes have risen in the past ten years in Canada. This is excellent news. Economic growth driven by rising wages is…
The Monitor, September/October 2017
Sanctuary Cities Download 8.28 MB The Trudeau government has shone internationally on a progressive message of tolerance, openness, diversity and inclusive, sustainable economic growth. It says it wants to make…
Budget 2018: Time to lean in gentlemen
It’s that exciting time of year when economists wake from their summer slumber and start making submissions to the federal Finance Committee about what they’d like to see in Budget…
Fast Facts: Funding Community Strength in North Point Douglas
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 15, 2017, Inter-Agency effort to support inner-city women’s center It may seem unusual for an organization that works with incarcerated men to…
First person power
How the Internet popularized the memoir and smashed open a space for feminist writers All writing is political. Whether or not it is about politics doesn’t matter. From historical novels to children’s…
Why is it so hard to close the gender wage gap?
The wage gap is pretty easy to understand. I do a job. You do a job. I get paid more. You get paid less. Unfair. Especially if you and I…
The budget is a first step to better the lives of women in Canada
Men and women are different. That shouldn’t be news, but today it is. Today, the government released the first federal budget that includes a look at the differences between men…
Five things you can do right now to help women achieve economic equality
I’ve got my pussyhat. I’m ready to march. To strike. To get to work. Or I could stay home. And watch Netflix. What would happen if we all just called…
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