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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…
Canada is wrong to think we need a free trade deal with Mercosur
Prime Minister Trudeau and Brazilian President Michel Temer in July 2017. I was invited to appear before a parliamentary trade committee last…
The US wants a NAFTA deal this month; Canada should say no
Lighthizer, Guajardo and Freeland feeling the NAFTA love in April.For the past four weeks, NAFTA negotiators in Washington, D.C., have been working…
Soaring housing costs causing living wage to increase in Metro Vancouver
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — The cost of raising a family in British Columbia increased slightly from 2017 to 2018. And…
Working for a Living Wage 2018
Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Metro Vancouver Download 1.85 MB8 pages Attachments Working for a Living Wage 2018 Calculation…
BC government decision to continue excluding farm workers from minimum wage protection very disappointing
Vancouver — Although there are positive elements to today’s BC government announcement in response to the second report of the Fair Wages Commission,…
Tax cuts won’t cut it: Low-wage workers need a raise
A month ago, PC Leader Doug Ford floated a trial balloon: he would freeze Ontario’s minimum wage at $14 but take…
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…