OTTAWA - Les frais de garde d’enfants demeurent inabordables dans la plupart des villes au Canada, selon une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), qui met à jour le classement des villes, soit de la plus chère à la moins chère, en ce qui concerne le coût des services de garde au Canada.
Gender equality
It’s hard to believe that in 2020 there is still a stigma around menstruation. It is beyond clear that access to menstrual hygiene products and information about periods is a basic human right, not a luxury. As Jasmine Ramze Rezaee, manager of advocacy at YWCA Toronto, told me recently, no one "should go without access to menstrual products because of financial barriers [and] some menstrual products should be fully funded by the government.”
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The idea of a Green New Deal—a radical and comprehensive transformation of the economy to cut greenhouse gas emissions while tackling inequality—has been gaining steam as an organizing principle for the environmental and social justice movements. Yet there are many questions that GND advocates have yet to think through or agree on. Like how can we produce enough electricity to rapidly replace all fossil fuels? Will new, green jobs be good, unionized jobs that are accessible in the places where jobs are needed most? Crucially, how will we pay for it all?
The Monitor starts off 2020—the CCPA's 40th anniversary year—with a direct attack on the Trudeau government's contradictory climate plans and the close connections between public officials and the fossil fuel sector. Will minority status and a rising Green New Deal movement change the government's course, or will it be just more business as usual?
The "Beyond Neoliberalism" workshop in Ottawa on October 30, 2019 was co-organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Trade Justice Network and Institute for Policy Studies, with support from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-New York.
This study provides an assessment of Canada’s progress in meeting the goals for gender equality set out in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Adopted unanimously by 189 countries including Canada in 1995, the Beijing Declaration is the most progressive global blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights. The report examines Canada’s progress over the last 25 years in areas ranging from reproductive health to women’s economic standing and the situation of women in prisons.
OTTAWA — Les progrès du Canada vers l’égalité des sexes ont été inégaux et, malgré certaines mesures positives, il reste encore beaucoup à faire, selon un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui par un réseau de groupes d’égalité des sexes et le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA).
OTTAWA—Canada’s progress towards gender equality has been uneven, and despite some positive steps there is significant unfinished business, according to a new report released today by a network of gender equality groups and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Cet ouvrage été préparé par un réseau de plus de 50 organisations revendiquant l’égalité et les droits des femmes, de syndicats et d’experts indépendants pour souligner le 25e anniversaire de la quatrième conférence mondiale sur les femmes.