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Alternative federal budget 2026: Building true Canadian sovereignty
What true Canadian sovereignty and independence might look like when the public good is at the heart of budgetary planning
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Trump’s assault on regulations and the NAFTA renegotiation
U.S. President Donald Trump’s January 30 executive action on reducing regulations has been obscured by the uproar in response to his Muslim immigration ban, Mexican…
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Brad Wall, SaskTel and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Brad Wall has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea for Saskatchewan; privatizing SaskTel. While the suggestion of privatizing Sasktel has been floated by…
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From NAFTA to CETA: Corporate lobbying through the back door
Download 1.35 MB21 pages Business lobby groups have long complained of different consumer protection and health measures creating unreasonable “barriers” to trade and investment. They…
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Prairie Update: Doing Austerity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
In the Fall 2016 Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)Saskatchewan’s Simon Enoch penned Getting to Know Brad, introducing Canada’s most popular premier – Brad…
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La réforme sournoise du RRQ
Le sujet des retraites est rarement perçu comme étant palpitant. On en parle quand arrive la saison des REER, quand on veut montrer que les…
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Work Life: 900 Manitoba Hydro Workers Thrown Off Deck
The news that Manitoba Hydro will shed 900 employees hit the community like a tonne of bricks. The new government said cutbacks were coming, but…
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Adult education in BC: A Canadian outlier
Thankfully for their residents, not every province handles adult education like BC where the government has eroded access to high-school level courses for adults while…
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Fast Facts: Economics & the path to women’s & racial equity and equality in Manitoba
Last Monday the Manitoba Minister responsible for the status of women, Rochelle Squires declared the third week in January “gender equality week”. However the new…
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Toronto garbage collection privatization politics: sniff test fail
This week Toronto city council will revisit the question of further garbage collection privatization despite evidence that suggests privatization politics don’t pass the sniff test.Right now,…
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The mock doctrine: How elites silence dissent
Where the press is truly free, and everyone is able to read, all is safe. —Thomas Jefferson. The brooding statue of Giordano Bruno in the…
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What Does it Take to House a Syrian Refugee?
Supporting Refugee Housing and Resettlement Beyond the Syrian Refugee Crisis Download 1 MB32 pages In this work we demonstrate the specific constellation of events, initiatives,…
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Canada cannot have it both ways on climate and fossil fuel expansion
With great fanfare and a claim that Canada is back, Prime Minister Trudeau helped usher in the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015.…
