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The last mile: Provincial child care expansion at the five-year deadline
Child care has become more accessible over the past five years but finding affordable spaces is still a frustrating experience for many parents
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Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans
What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Canada launched Bill C-12 last month, a transparency and accountability act designed to achieve “net-zero” emissions by 2050. The government has also pledged to increase…
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Just transition planning for a managed wind-down of fossil fuels in BC
Resource development has long been central to BC’s economy. But commodity prices swing, industries consolidate and patterns of demand change over time. When they do,…
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Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans
What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home…
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Fast Facts: Indigenous-led housing key to pandemic recovery
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec. 12, 2020 “STAY home.” For months we have heard this refrain from our public-health officials. And yet,…
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Fast Facts: Manitoba’s pandemic learning plan
A timeline of “immediately,” a budget of “nothing” amid secretive legislation A version of this piece is forthcoming in Our Schools Our Selves published by…
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New federal climate plan hindered by commitment to fossil fuel production
About the authorCCPA National Office
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Healthy forests for a cooler future
There was every reason to believe in the early spring of this year that the most ambitious tree-planting program in British Columbia’s history would be…
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Five things we’re looking for from the new federal climate plan
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women
About the authorBarb CameronBarb Cameron is an Associate Professor with the Department of Politics and Research Member with Centre for Feminist Research at York University.
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2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Willful Neglect? Download 783.53 KB54 pages Canada has now passed the 30-year mark since the all-party resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate poverty among…
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2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Willful Neglect?
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