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Provinces need to own their responsibility for expanding low-fee child care
About the authorDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…
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Fast Fasts: Manitoba Wage Wars
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 12, 2021 Since forming government in 2016, the provincial Conservative government has aggressively pursued a policy of…
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Vacancy control: taking the next step on housing affordability
Recently, two Ontario-based Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) purchased 15 Vancouver apartment buildings for $292 million from Hollyburn Properties. Tenants in those buildings, totaling 614…
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Rents keep going up, pandemic or not
Centre Percentage change Newfoundland & Labrador 10,000+ 1.4 St. John’s CMA 1.6 Prince Edward Island 10,000+ 3.2 Charlottetown CA 2.7 Nova Scotia 10,000+ 4.0 Halifax…
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Fast Facts: The government of Manitoba is failing Manitobans every step of the way in their pandemic response and needs to do better
No one in the world has had all the answers, and there are bound to be mistakes and missteps. But the chronic lack of preparedness,…
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Pandemic Pedagogies: Teaching, Learning and Accessibility in Teacher Education
About the authorZuhra AbawiZuhra Abawi is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Niagara University Ontario. Her research focuses on the ways that discourses of…
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Winds of Change
K-12 Education, Funding and Equity in Manitoba Download 420.28 KB15 pages Like elsewhere in Canada, public schools in Manitoba have endured an unprecedented year of…
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Fast Facts: Educators across Manitoba anticipate Manitoba Commission on K – 12 Education.
The provincial government is continuing its education reform agenda in the middle of a global pandemic. The experience of Ontario’s education reforms is a cautionary…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Government runs afoul with a number of laws to assist silica sand mine project
CanWhite Sands Corp. (CWS), an Alberta-based company, is proposing to build a silica sand processing facility and to extract 1.3.million tonnes of silica sand a…
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Thirsting for information: reforms to industrial water use badly needed
As British Columbians are discovering everywhere, one of the greatest and most pressing challenges posed by climate change is drought. Consider just three examples. On…
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BC government charging major users very little for water and only loosely tracking industrial water use, research shows
VANCOUVER—Major companies including mining juggernaut Teck Resources, the world’s largest aluminum maker Rio Tinto Alcan and natural gas processor WestCoast Energy Inc. pay shockingly little…
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Manitoba leaving money for health care, long-term care, housing and essential worker supports on the table – new CCPA National report
A version of this commentary was published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 2, 2021. A new report finds that Manitoba does not have plans…
