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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index Simple

CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index Simple

December 19, 2023

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  • CCPA-NS Annual Fundraising Gala: 25th Anniversary Celebration

    Join the CCPA Nova Scotia office on November 7th for the Annual Fundraising Gala! Celebrating 25 years of providing policy alternatives, this cocktail reception will…

    September 13, 2024
  • Time to get on board with free public transit

    The BC Green Party made the first big splash of the 2024 provincial election campaign with a major commitment to expand public transit, including a…

    September 12, 2024
  • EBC Fundraising Brunch 2024

    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba is proud to be honouring the Women’s Health Clinic at their annual Errol Black Chair in Labour…

    September 11, 2024
  • Minimum wage increases aren’t even close to enough

    Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible.

    September 11, 2024
  • A metal mesh fence enclosing a restricted area (quarantine, prison, production area).

    Let the sentence fit the crime, not the criminal

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 11

    September 11, 2024
  • Deportable by design – banner

    Exploitable and deportable by design: Why migrant workers’ housing is harmful to their health

    Canada’s treatment of migrant workers is drawing international scrutiny after UN investigator Tomoya Obokata warned that its Temporary Foreign Worker Program “serves as a breeding…

    September 11, 2024
  • Sunset in the financial district of downtown Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

    Manitoba’s buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them

    MANITOBA’S buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them — unused renewable energy. Incredibly, the technology exists to extract it via geothermal heating and cooling.

    September 10, 2024
  • Upholding our moral compass

    Equity is teaching and learning that is centered on justice, liberation, truth, and freedom, and is free of bias and favouritism. You cannot talk about true…

    September 7, 2024
  • Billboard highlighting the movement to free Palestinian lands. Billboard is close up with a busy road to the right of the sign.

    From South Africa to Palestine

    In March 2023 at the annual Palestine lecture at the University of London’s School of Oriental African Studies, I said that while Israel has always been…

    September 7, 2024
  • Variety of Kufiya head scarves

    “It’s like we’re not even allowed to be Palestinian”

    “My Mom brought me a keffiyeh for school for cultural day…this guy took it out of my backpack and put it on his head and…

    September 7, 2024
  • Colonialism, racism and the IHRA

    In June 2024, after years of advocacy from Palestinian and Jewish families, the Toronto District School Board voted to include anti-Palestinian racism as part of its Combating Hate and…

    September 7, 2024
  • Image: Submitted by Erika Shaker

    Editorial

    As editors, we came to this project with both acknowledgementof the risk, and with an an unshakeable sense of resolve.

    September 6, 2024
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  1. CCPA-NS Annual Fundraising Gala: 25th Anniversary Celebration
  2. Time to get on board with free public transit
  3. EBC Fundraising Brunch 2024
  4. Minimum wage increases aren’t even close to enough
  5. Let the sentence fit the crime, not the criminal
  6. Exploitable and deportable by design: Why migrant workers’ housing is harmful to their health
  7. Manitoba’s buildings have a massive opportunity beneath them
  8. Upholding our moral compass
  9. From South Africa to Palestine
  10. “It’s like we’re not even allowed to be Palestinian”
  11. Colonialism, racism and the IHRA
  12. Editorial

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