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In Ontario, it’s a time of plenty for private health care while public hospitals starve
About the authorAndrew LonghurstAndrew Longhurst is a senior researcher and political economist, with a focus on health policy, at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.…
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Rethinking pink day
“Adults often tell young people to “be themselves” without acknowledging that for non-dominant-group students, being “themselves” often has real social penalties. While a “just be…
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Challenging Racist British Columbia booklet weaves together history and present day anti-racist work during province’s 150th year
VANCOUVER — The 150th anniversary of British Columbia joining Canada arrives at a time when people and institutions are being asked to reckon with the…
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Challenging Racist British Columbia
150 Years and Counting Download 9.78 MB80 pages This booklet dives into the long history of racist policies that have impacted Indigenous, Black and racialized…
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If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants
Andy Morffew (Flickr Creative Commons) Throughout 2019, we saw multiple variations on the same grim headline: “Dead Whale Found With 48 Pounds of Plastic…
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Fracking in BC’s northeast
Last summer I got out of Vancouver and toured northern BC. While the trip was mostly for pleasure, my inner economist could not resist some…
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Monopolizing the Recovery
Canada and the WTO-TRIPS Waiver Proposal The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Trade Justice Network host a conversation with global experts on the Indian…
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CCPA 2021 pre-budget submission to Finance Canada
Download 231.51 KB 7 pages In this submission, we highlight several key policy areas that demand immediate attention in Budget 2021, including investing in the…
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Trees to pellets? Scarred by two previous resource industry boom and busts, pivotal decisions lie ahead for community of Fort Nelson
The residents of Fort Nelson know better than most rural British Columbians about the harsh economic realities of resource dependency. It is now 13 years…
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Staffing the Crisis
The Capacity of Eleven Municipal Housing Departments Across Canada Download 2.05 MB28 pages This research turned to ten other Canadian cities to ask how municipal…
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Groups urge BC government to delay ruling on unprecedented proposal to turn unlogged forests into wood pellets
VANCOUVER — Vast swaths of forest in British Columbia’s Fort Nelson region are in danger of being gobbled up to make low-value, climate-unfriendly wood pellets…
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US farm groups and unions ask Biden to end CUSMA attack on Canada’s supply management system
About the authorCathy Holtslander
