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Growing pains: What can be done about Ontario’s ever-rising child care fees?
About the authorErika ShakerErika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began her career at the CCPA in 1997 as director of…
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Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued
More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems…
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Getting back on course
The looming Ontario election means that, once again, education will be a key topic of debate. This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on a…
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The CCPA-BC sent the following submission to the BC Government’s How We Vote consultation, which requests feedback on key elements of the upcoming referendum on electoral…
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Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking methane—a finding that…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Winter 2018
Going Somewhere? A New Direction for Public Education in Ontario The looming Ontario election means that, once again, education will be a key topic of…
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Asking British Columbians about electoral reform
CCPA-BC submission on the electoral reform process Download 1.8 MB6 pages The CCPA-BC sent this submission to the BC Government’s How We Vote consultation, which requests feedback…
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Study confirms what parents suspect: BC is one of Canada’s most expensive provinces for child care
A report released by our National Office this week confirms what many parents already know: BC is one of Canada’s most expensive provinces for child…
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A Deficit Worth Worrying About: The Gendered And Racialized Wage Gap
I was really hoping the recent release of Census data would bring good news: wage gap closed! Racial discrimination gone! Equality achieved! Not so much.…
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Poverty solutions must address racial, gender and neighborhood inequities in HRM-new report on child and family poverty
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX — 13,690 children, almost one in five, were living in poverty in Halifax in 2015, according to a new fact…
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State of the Inner City Report 2017
Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Challenges in Measuring Value and Impact in Community-Based Programming Download 4.41 MB 36 pages Emerging out of…
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