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Pipeline Reversal Protesters Muzzled
NEB limits public input at oil pipeline reversal hearings The final National Energy Board (NEB) public hearings on Enbridge’s controversial Line 9B…
Reopening Riverview Hospital not the answer
The BC government recently rejected the recommendation of the Union of BC Municipalities to re-instate Riverview Hospital. Our government has made the…
Fast Facts: “Indians Wear Red”
Aboriginal Street Gangs in Winnipeg They were kids when they started. Teenagers locked up in the youth detention centre, watching movies about…
Fast Facts: The Two Faces of Government Policy Towards Local Food
Small farm owners Pam and Clint Cavers were blindsided on August 28, 2013 when Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) staff…
Lowering Our Standards
The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and…
Debt, Austerity, and Devastation
Creditors get fatter financially, their victims get thinner Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from…
Work Life: That’s What Unions Do
Back in February, 2013, CCPA-Mb put out a Fast Facts titled Six Unions: One Voice1 which chronicled the many problems faced by…
BC government to blame for looming BC Hydro rate increases
BC Hydro rates are going up. In its rate application hearing before the BC Utilities Commission last year, BC Hydro forecast increases…
Where Icebergs are Born
Nearly all the icebergs in the North Atlantic start in this place. Disko Bay, Greenland, is littered with ice as far as…
SaskNotes: The Government of Canadaʼs Legacy of Contamination in Northern Saskatchewan Watersheds
Download 936.91 KB10 pages Beaverlodge Lake, a 57 square kilometer water body, and three other watersheds in northern Saskatchewan are seriously contaminated…
Canada lacks coherent response to end violence against women: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA— Progress on ending violence against women in Canada is stalled by the absence of a coherent…
Will CETA Help Tories…Or Hurt Them?
With Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement…