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The Day of Mourning is April 28. The time for paid sick leave is now
For labour activists, it’s a sombre occasion—sadness layered over a base of quiet anger. But this year that anger won’t be quiet. Not a chance.
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A Just Border Carbon Adjustment? A Primer
Canada, the United States and Europe are all considering ways to tax imports to fend off carbon leakage—outsourcing to countries where there is no carbon…
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Fast Facts: Where did all the vaccines go?
In the absence of a domestic supply of COVID-19 vaccine, Canada finds itself a begger in a global marketplace in which a handful of multi-national…
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BC Budget 2021: Stay-the-course budget misses the mark on key areas of urgency outside health
The BC government tabled a surprisingly stay-the-course budget today, making some improvements on the margins but missing the opportunity to shift BC towards a more…
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Does Canada’s federal budget address the social determinants of health?
COVID-19 caught us unprepared Does the federal budget deliver? Yes and no. No major changes to public health care spending About the authorLindsay McLarenLindsay MacLaren…
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BC Budget 2021 — Missed opportunities and inadequate investments
VANCOUVER — The BC government made some needed investments in its 2021 budget for COVID-19 recovery, but there is scarce new funding for major priorities like…
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Budget 2021 analysis: Does it deliver?
Federal Budget 2021 was expected to deliver between $70-100B in COVID-19 recovery funds. Does it deliver and will funds be allocated in meaningful ways? Our…
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Watershed moment for child care, long-term care: Budget 2021
But pharmacare, tax reform and climate change remain in limbo OTTAWA—Today’s federal budget makes headway on long-neglected issues in the care economy, such as child…
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Third-party funding of investor–state disputes: At what cost?
The economic turmoil unleashed by the pandemic is expected to lead to a boom in the number of ISDS claims. Law firms are not the…
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Proposed changes to Nova Scotia’s Financial Measures Act would erode trust
Democracy is built on trust and trust is built on openness.
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Budget Watch 2021: How Canada can budget for Buy America
Canadian business is understandably concerned about Buy America conditions on Biden’s US$2.3-trillion COVID recovery plan. But lobbying U.S. governments for waivers for Canadian suppliers can…
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BC Budget 2021 could be the most important budget in a generation
BC Budget 2021 will be tabled on April 20th, in the middle of the COVID-19 third wave. It is an opportunity for the new provincial…
Iryna Makukha
