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Beyond Recovery: The pandemic’s heavy toll on women in Canada
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A timeline: The pandemic’s impact on women in the workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic upended women’s economic gains, wiping out 35 years of progress in two short months.
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The pandemic wreaked havoc on hotel workers
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a devastating upheaval in hotel workers’ work lives. Closures and travel restrictions, especially in the first wave of the…
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The Monitor – Summer 2024
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit home, the walls rapidly closed in—especially for women.
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False climate solutions are showing their true colours
The following is a re-print of the March 2024 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Armine Yalnizyan talks care economy, economic theory, and walking with giants
The following text is a transcript of a speech given by Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow On The Future Of Workers and former senior economist at…
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How BC’s oil and gas industry sidestepped carbon pricing
When BC first introduced a carbon tax in 2008 the point was to apply it to all emissions causing climate change, but start at a…
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Adult Basic Education in Manitoba: “It’s Like, Life Changing!”
What could lead people to say such things as, “I can physically, like on every level, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, feel myself changing and transforming,”…
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Cuts to community groups would send wrong message
Previously pubished in the Winnipeg Free Press June 25, 2024
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Busting myths about Palestine solidarity encampments at Canadian universities
It has been described as the world’s first live-streamed genocide. At the time of this writing, the Israeli army has killed over 36,000 Palestinians in…
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Canada’s Broken Promises to Migrant Care Workers
VANCOUVER — The federal government must ensure that just-announced pilot programs for migrant care workers are not the latest in a series of failed such programs,…
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Will a higher capital gains tax inclusion rate double corporate investments?
Corporate Canada’s well-oiled public relations machine is in full swing against a minor change to Canada’s tax system, which would increase the capital gains inclusion…
