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“Critical minerals” strategy is going down a cynical road
As the U.S. and China compete for control of strategic minerals and technology, Canada should prioritize climate action over geopolitics.
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Don’t wait for the state: A blueprint for grassroots climate transitions in Canada
The climate transition is urgent—and it’s increasingly clear that governments aren’t acting fast enough. How can communities, workers, and movements directly implement a transition? Download…
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Submission to Law Amendments on BILL NO. 262: Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act
Submitted April 3rd, 2023, by Catherine Leviten-Reid and Christine Saulnier Download 296.86 KB4 pages Before the emergency pandemic cap and temporary extensions, Nova Scotia had…
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How Feminist is the 2023 Federal Budget? It isn’t.
The tension between this federal government’s neoliberal economic roots and social justice ambitions has always been evident.
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Don’t wait for the state
The climate transition is urgent—and it’s increasingly clear that governments aren’t acting fast enough. How can communities, workers, and movements directly implement a transition?
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Why Don’t We Just Care?
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 30, 2023 In “A Tale of Two Sentences” (March 18, 2023 Winnipeg Free Press) Dean Pritchard reports…
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A hit-and-miss budget: Canada’s 2023 federal budget moves on climate and dental—but avoids almost everything else
Investments in a clean economy, dental care, and a GST top-up stole the show; many other needed investments have gone missing.
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Opposition Parties Need to Stand Firm Against Tax Cuts for the Rich
The 2023 Manitoba budget proposes over half a billion dollars in tax cuts, but many Manitobans won’t see a dime, while the richest Manitobans will…
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Seven things Canada could do with an ambitious federal budget in 2023
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
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US–Canada agreement to close Roxham Road will cost lives, migrants say
Legal observers worry the newly-expanded Safe Third Country Agreement contravenes international conventions on refugees.
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Balanced budget leaves Ontarians behind
It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians’ lives than deficit reduction.
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Nova Scotia Budget Leaves Many Nova Scotians Behind
This budget could have been so much more than it is. Let’s break down how.
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Raising emissions while pledging to lower them — British Columbia’s Orwellian LNG gambit
In 2007, then-BC premier Gordon Campbell passed the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act” committing BC to a 33 per cent reduction in emissions from 2007…
