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Voting to take care of one another
This week my dad will be discharged from hospital in time to vote in the federal election. After receiving exemplary service from…
Pipeline politics and the 2015 election
In early 2012, then Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver dropped a bombshell on BC. He asserted that Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline…
Fast Facts: Thunderbird House has potential to unite
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 9th, 2015 When award winning author Joseph Boyden announced he would donate half of…
Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer
Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years.…
Federal cuts undermining workplace health and safety: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Federal underfunding and understaffing of safety inspectors are putting employees in federally regulated workplaces sector…
Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care
The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video…
Fast Facts: The Conservative Stealth Strategy to Undermine Medicare
The Harper government has a two-fold strategy to undermine Medicare. One part of the game plan is to underfund Medicare creating “shortages”…
Special education policies across Canada need update, renewal: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA—The majority of special education policies in place across…
Fast Facts: Rent Assist Increase
Community work in action Thanks to community advocacy, low-income Manitobans will have more money to help pay their rent. Three years ago…
Blank Cheque? Lack of oversight in highway contracts fails to protect Saskatchewan public
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Regina — A new report from the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives raises…
Specialist offers insight into lives of WorkSafe claimants with chronic pain: poverty, depression, suicide attempts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today takes an in-depth look at a sample of WCB (or…
The implications for Canada of a fast-tracked Trans-Pacific Partnership
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations slouch toward an agreement, supporters have cranked the volume on their praise for what is sometimes…