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Manitoba Fiscal Update: investing in the long-term should be prioritized over a short-term budget balance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2025 WINNIPEG (TREATY ONE) – Manitoba’s second quarter fiscal update, released this afternoon, provides a snapshot of the difficult fiscal…
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Bailout for people and communities, not oil and gas industry
Canada is in an economic tailspin due to the COVID-19 pandemic, echoing the worst months of the Great Depression. Yet while millions of Canadians need…
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Unemployment may hit 70-year high, but new EI replacement will help
Unemployment rates Feb 2020 Optimistic case Probable case Newly unemployed – (probable) Canada 5.9% 10.9% 13.5% 1,528,050 …
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Unemployment rate has likely already doubled, 2 million workers at immediate risk of layoff in Canada: Analysis
Unemployment rates Feb 2020 Best case Realistic case Newly unemployed – Realistic case Canada 5.9% 10.9% 13.5% 1,528,050 …
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6 lessons for climate action from Canada’s COVID-19 response
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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A closer look at the BC COVID-19 Action Plan
Less than two weeks have passed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the fast-spreading virus has already led to large-scale economic…
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Time to #CancelRent and defer mortgage payments
UPDATE On March 25, the BC government announced a suite of measures to protect renters during the COVID-19 crisis, including a ban on new and…
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Fast Facts: COVID-19 Testing in Manitoba: The Importance of the Whole Story
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, said Monday. “To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics: testing every…
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Fast Facts: Pandemic Punctures Childcare Illusion
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, March 25, 2020. Who knew that childcare would punch through as a key priority in a global pandemic?…
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Old Grace A History of the Organization and Construction of the Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative
Download 1.11 MB58 pages In June 2019, Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative (OGHC) held its grand opening. The first members of the 64-unit co-op in…
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The prison as petri dish
About the authorAnthony MorganAnthony N. Morgan is a Toronto-based human rights lawyer, policy consultant and community educator.
Province of BC
