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In the coming months and years, the new federal government will make important decisions about jobs: how we create them, protect them and make them…
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns have become a focus for climate change organizing, targeting university endowments, churches, foundations and pension funds. While the motivations are primarily…
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–A new study finds that citizenship status plays a key role in farmworker safety, and recommends significant changes to immigration…
Download 1.44 MB36 pages Based on interviews with 200 farmworkers, as well as representatives from industry, advocates and civil servants, this study finds that most…
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Canadian pension funds are exposed to a wide range of risks from their holdings of fossil fuels, says a study…
The Economic Case for Divestment Download 969.66 KB 46 pages The study makes the economic case for divestment from fossil fuels, due to risk factors…
(Vancouver) Who is behind the wheel of fossil fuel extraction in Western Canada and what influence do they wield? These are the central questions driving…
Download 1.07 MB 17 pages Canada’s economy has disappointed in 2015, dipping into a recession in the first half of the year. BC’s economy is…
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Fall 2015, Volume 18, Number 3 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Moving Forward: Unheard Voices — The needs of seniors from smaller ethno-cultural…
This week my dad will be discharged from hospital in time to vote in the federal election. After receiving exemplary service from palliative care and…
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