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Mobility Pricing: An idea whose time has come?
In a few weeks, the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission will release its final report to TransLink and the Mayors’ Council. The commission…
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…
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…
Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta Budget
Alberta’s 2018 budget was tabled on March 22, 2018. The official name of this year’s budget is Budget 2018: A Recovery Built to…
Nova Scotia Budget a wedge, not a lever
There is an urgency for our government to use fiscal policy to promote a different kind of economic growth that no longer…
Care and change: The messages driving Ontario’s 2018 election
Sixty-two times. That’s how many times the Government of Ontario drew upon the word “care” in a throne speech designed to claim…
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.…
An ambition constrained budget
Am I happy with the 2018 federal budget? Well, many of the items in it can be found in this year’s and…
Paternity Leave: An Idea Whose Time has Come
More than 80% of men in Quebec take leave after their child is born. On average they take 5 weeks. In the…
Western Canada needs real climate action, not disingenuous arguments
In Western Canada’s slow lurch towards sane climate and energy policy, two prominent arguments have been advanced for the continuation of business-as-usual…
Ten proposals from the 2018 Alternative Federal Budget
This year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) has just been released. I was proud to be part of this year’s effort, coordinated by…
Alternative Federal Budget 2018: A bold plan for a prosperous future
The following remarks are excerpted from the 2018 Alternative Federal Budget press conference, featuring Gauri Sreenivasan, David Macdonald and Peter Bleyer (February 22,…