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Platform Crunch: Health care, child care, and the care economy
About the authorKatherine ScottKatherine serves as the director for the CCPA’s gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector as…
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Closing Canada’s Gender Gap
Year 2240 Here We Come! Download 301.74 KB10 pages This study looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between men and women over the…
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Fast Facts: Moving Forward, Giving Back
Transformative Aboriginal Adult Education When she was 12 years old and still in grade 7, Claudette Michell left home in The Pas, running from racism…
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Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market
Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and…
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BC Office: Fact sheet on affordable housing options for seniors now available.
BC’s provincial government has said it is committed to ensuring seniors can remain in their homes and “age in place.” Yet, the lack of adequate…
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Seniors Fact Sheet: Housing
Affordable Housing Options for Seniors Living in BC Introduction BC’s provincial government has said it is committed… -
Assessing BC’s Fiscal Health: Can BC afford more deficits?
By Seth Klein and Iglika Ivanova [Note: this piece has also appeared in the Tyee here.] OK, time for a reality check on BC’s deficits.…
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Fast Facts: Still Waiting for the Thaw
Just like the ice and snow that refuse to go away this April, the provincial government is frozen into a perennial cycle of cutting revenue…
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Can BC afford more deficits?
OK, time for a reality check on BC’s deficits. Simply put, while arguments about deficits and “who is the better fiscal manager” may make for…
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SaskNotes: PFRA Community Pastures
History and Drama of a Prairie Commons Download 2.76 MB8 pages Once the victim of hasty prairie settlement, the PFRA Community Pastures became grassland jewels…
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Bob Allen: Global Economic History (Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture)
Bob Allen: Global Economic History — A Very Short Introduction, Clip 1 of 4 Bob Allen: Global Economic History — A Very Short Introduction, Clip…
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Canadians Aren’t Buying the Banksplaining
So, am I the only parent of small children struck by the familiar tone of RBC’s Temporary Foreign Worker damage control message fiasco? In a…
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Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on…
