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Amid NAFTA turmoil, Trudeau government quietly ditches progressive trade agenda
The future of Canada’s trading relationships has been a hot topic this week. But these conversations have largely been dominated by hand-wringing…
Les déserts de services de garde au Canada
Download 3.95 MB 40 pages Le présent rapport a pour objet de cartographier une liste complète des places en services de garde…
Pipe Dreams: The risky bets behind Ottawa’s TMX purchase
The federal government’s decision, announced this morning, to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan…
Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and…
Ontario election 2018: Turning votes into seats
In Ontario’s first-past-the-post electoral system, it’s not just a matter of counting votes. Here are a few things to think about that…
Fast Facts: A Made-in-Manitoba Tragedy of the Commons
In February, a provincial news release about changes to agricultural crown advised that “The Manitoba government has launched a consultation focused on…
Ontario’s high-stakes election campaign: parties going “all in”
Back in March, the Ontario Liberals put all of their chips on the table with their election-style provincial budget. They promised free…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Subsidized Housing With Supports Needs More Support
Lessons from WestEnd Commons Stable and affordable housing is a central component in improving people’s quality of life. In light of a…