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Manitoba Budget 2026
Focus on budget balance overshadows public service rebuild and support for low-income Manitobans in Budget 2026
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Vitals check: Restoring provincial health spending in Manitoba
Health care spending in Manitoba has increased substantially since 2023, but it will take more to recover from years of underfunding
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Do trade deals put public health care up for sale?
Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements.
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Les élèves de l’Ontario ont besoin de classes plus petites et non pas d’un autre examen de l’OQRE
Les tests ne sont pas le problème. Il est temps de réduire et de plafonner la taille des classes.
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Achieving the right to housing: Lessons for Manitoba from Finland
You can’t have Housing First without having Housing First — but you need a whole lot more.
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Saskatchewan budget 2026: Failure to protect
The province needs to protect people from the rising cost of living and to plan for the future. The budget does neither in any substantive…
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Kicking away the ladder: The true cost of changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program
Changes to OSAP will drastically reduce access to post-secondary education in Ontario and force more students to take on a lot more debt
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Deaths following paid-plasma donations demand inquiry
Two Winnipeg deaths following paid-plasma donations at for-profit centres give urgency to provincial and federal responses
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Mexico’s CUSMA consultations show alignments with Canada
Business overwhelmingly backs the trade pact but with tensions related to tariffs, dispute panels, labour enforcement and Asian imports
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Low-income senior renters can’t age in place in Winnipeg
Structural barriers exist that prevent low-income seniors from aging in place.
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Arts and Culture: Nova Scotia’s Undervalued Public Good
A flourishing arts sector means a flourishing province. The arts are not a burden; we are part of the solution. Let’s work together on that…
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Patients or profits first?
Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services
















