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Budget 2018: On Track or Wrong Track?
For those that feared that the Saskatchewan government would continue the punishing austerity they laid out in 2017, this year’s budget came as a mild…
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No Bad Option
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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We’re short on time for Reconciliation, but not on hope
“Our greatest source of hope is in the youth of today, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. They recognize and understand that injustice is unacceptable.” “Reconciliation cannot be…
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Fast Facts: He Had a Dream
Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis…
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It’s time to stop dehumanizing Canadians with disabilities
“Colonialism, racism and ableism have intersected throughout Canada’s history to the detriment of our individual, community and national health.” “I worry about aging, my ability…
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Easy Water: Time bombs, fracking dams and the rush for H2O on private farmlands
The number of unlicensed and potentially dangerous dams built in recent years in northeast British Columbia is nearly double what has been reported, according to…
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Damming the information flow: BC government officials button lipped on potentially dangerous dams
Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated…
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Does BC need a UK-style Minister of Loneliness?
A British Cabinet Minister, Tracey Crouch, has been given the task of coming up with a national strategy to combat an epidemic of loneliness in the UK.…
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Ontario budget throws down the election gauntlet
In its waning days before a June election, with the opposition breathing down its neck, the Ontario government threw down the gauntlet with what is…
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Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta Budget
Alberta’s 2018 budget was tabled on March 22, 2018. The official name of this year’s budget is Budget 2018: A Recovery Built to Last. Here are…
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Time for a course correction in Ontario school funding: report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Teachers and education workers are rallying behind a new blueprint to fix Ontario’s 20-year-old education funding…
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Scientific “review” of fracking falls well short of what is needed: full public inquiry required, groups say
VANCOUVER – A scientific panel appointed by the provincial government to review natural gas industry fracking operations conspicuously avoids tackling human health concerns, which can…
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