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  • Environment & Sustainability
    Policy Note
    The Economy

    Pining for some straight talk

    BC Forests Minister Pat Bell grabbed plenty of headlines this week when he said that the threats posed to resource communities by the mountain pine…

    March 6, 2009
  • Children & Youth
    Employment & Labour
    Gender Equality
    Income/wages
    Policy Note

    IWD commitments on my wish list

    With International Women’s Day on the horizon this weekend, I’m looking for some commitments. Women are over-represented in low-wage work. So which party in the…

    March 6, 2009
  • Policy Note
    Provincial Budgets
    Public Sector

    And Another Thing About the Port Mann non-P3

    Now that the government has abandoned private financing of the Port Mann, it’s time to make the bigger but equally sensible leap and abandon the…

    March 5, 2009
  • Employment & Labour
    Gender Equality
    Reports

    Balancing the Scales of Pay Equity

    The Need for Gender Analysis and Budgeting Download 266.58 KB14 pages

    March 5, 2009
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Income Inequality
    Reports

    The Trouble with Housing for Low-Income People

    Download 270.33 KB4 pages

    March 5, 2009
  • Health Care
    Policy Note

    The Lawsuit

    The Lawsuit A couple of weeks ago I wrote that Brian Day and his followers had launched a lawsuit against the province, alleging that, “in…

    March 4, 2009
  • Government Finance
    Reports
    Tax Policy

    The Tory Budget

    Business as usual Download 221.26 KB4 pages

    March 4, 2009
  • Environment & Sustainability
    Policy Note
    The Economy

    Memo to Colin Hansen: Time for forest industry reality check

    If Finance Minister Colin Hansen’s budget forecasts are right, British Columbia’s battered forest industry is in for a modest recovery this coming fiscal year and…

    March 2, 2009
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Income Inequality
    Municipalities
    Reports

    The Case for Affordable Housing in Regina

    Download 165.36 KB 11 pages

    March 2, 2009
  • Federal Election
    Law & Legal Issues

    An Antidote to Ignorance

    Eugene Forsey debunks some Canada’s Parliament now appears to have returned to its pathetic “business-as-usual” mode in the aftermath of the inexcusable prorogation last December.…

    March 1, 2009
  • Corporations & Corporate Power
    Government Finance
    Public Services & Privatization
    Tax Policy

    Especially in a Recession

    Private sector couldn’t survive without public spending Many conservative politicians and business executives have denounced rather than acclaimed the government stimulus plans recently launched in…

    March 1, 2009
  • Environment & Sustainability
    Human Rights
    Indigenous Rights
    Law & Legal Issues

    The Struggle Continues

    Indigenous peoples still suffering from rights violations Indigenous women today work with many issues ranging from domestic violence, youth gangs, child welfare issues, land rights,…

    March 1, 2009
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  1. Pining for some straight talk
  2. IWD commitments on my wish list
  3. And Another Thing About the Port Mann non-P3
  4. Balancing the Scales of Pay Equity
  5. The Trouble with Housing for Low-Income People
  6. The Lawsuit
  7. The Tory Budget
  8. Memo to Colin Hansen: Time for forest industry reality check
  9. The Case for Affordable Housing in Regina
  10. An Antidote to Ignorance
  11. Especially in a Recession
  12. The Struggle Continues

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    Housing & Homelessness
    News & Commentary

    With out-of-control rents, why is the Saskatchewan government allergic to rent controls? 

    The current affordability crisis in Saskatchewan is proving particularly acute for renters. Over the past five years, the cost of rent in purpose-built apartments in…

    August 15, 2025
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Manitoba
    Reports

    Reversing cuts to Rent Assist to support housing affordability in Manitoba

    Reversing the cuts to Rent Assist would be a way for the Manitoba government to meaningfully support Manitobans struggling with the high cost of living.

    August 14, 2025
  • Housing & Homelessness
    News & Commentary
    August 15, 2025

    With out-of-control rents, why is the Saskatchewan government allergic to rent controls? 

  • Housing & Homelessness
    Manitoba
    Reports
    August 14, 2025

    Reversing cuts to Rent Assist to support housing affordability in Manitoba

  • Education
    Our Schools / Our Selves
    August 11, 2025

    Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025

  • News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade
    August 7, 2025

    Internal trade stunt puts Canada’s inshore fisheries at risk

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