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Patients or profits first?
Saskatchewan’s Patient First health plan still leaves the door open to for-profit services
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The clear-cut case against ISDS with Indonesia
Forestry-related firms made regular use of NAFTA’s controversial but expiring investor-state dispute settlement process. Why is Canada opening the door to ISDS claims from Indonesian…
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Building Stronger Boards
A Study on the Diversity of Settlement Organizations in Winnipeg Download 1.78 MB 68 pages Boards of directors are ubiquitous in Winnipeg’s social service sector,…
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Women’s earnings lag behind high rates of inflation
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #5: Women’s salaries are failing to keep up with inflation—a look at the latest numbers
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Pourquoi les licences obligatoires seraient-elles insuffisantes dans l’avenir ?
Manifestement, la mise en pratique des licences obligatoires est loin d’être une panacée.
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The pandemic has accelerated the exit of older workers
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #4: A new trend is emerging—women workers taking early retirement, especially in pandemic-affected industries.
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School bargaining: Down at Queen’s Park, $100 million is pocket change
The province spends much more money on things that aren’t priorities. Supporting education workers should be high on the priority list.
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Low-wage workers are most exposed to spiralling costs
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.
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Living wage increases highlight urgent need to expand government efforts on housing affordability
Affordability has long been a concern for residents of Metro Vancouver—a region notorious for stratospheric housing costs—but with inflation shooting up to a 40-year high…
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Inflation, soaring living costs cause unprecedented increase in Metro Vancouver living wage
Living wages increase across BC due to 40-year inflation high & rising costs of living, especially housing CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER…
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Working for a Living Wage: Making paid work meet basic family needs in Metro Vancouver
2022 Update Download 1.93 MB 16 pages Living expenses in BC, particularly for housing and food, are continuing to rise for families, meaning higher wages…
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A tale of two pandemics: the rich and the rest of us
On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not…
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Soft rock and a soft touch
Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box…
