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Building a just food system in Canada
The need for a more just food system that nourishes both people and planet has never been more evident.
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Canada’s Afghanistan intervention is a disastrous failure
Canada has been part of the evolving Afghanistan intervention in a variety of ways since it began in early October 2001, and the substantial 2005-2011…
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Housing bubble at precarious 30-year peak
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – For the first time in 30 years, a synchronized housing bubble has spread to six red-hot…
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Canada’s Housing Bubble
An Accident Waiting to Happen Download 1.03 MB 24 pages For the first time in 30 years, six of Canada’s hottest real estate markets are…
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A look at Canada’s housing market
Who might be in trouble and what can be done? The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study showing that, for the first time…
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Do we need a business case for poverty reduction?
I was reading up on poverty reduction policies and I came across a paragraph by Dalhousie University economics professor Lars Osberg that was just begging…
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From Revitalisation to Revaluation in the Spence Neighbourhood
Download 926.38 KB53 pages This is a look at the state of one neighbourhood, and how it is changing. It is about who has been…
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Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child of “queue-jumping” asylum seekers
If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. They came as…
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The End of the H1N1 Pandemic
The world spent billions on medication and vaccine stockpiles because the World Health Organization cried wolf. If the WHO cannot cleanse its ties to the…
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Reaction to the Tamil boat: curious comparisons
If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. See, they came…
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HST and the NDP
Let’s face it. You can’t blame the NDP or anyone else enjoying the drubbing the Liberals are getting from Bill Vander Zalm and co. It…
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Lack of water data a cause for public concern
In our high-speed digital world, there is no excuse for regulators failing to post and update information that is readily available to them and of…
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Fast Facts: Making waves out of ripples
Mayoralty candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis recently sparked discussion about government procurement practices when she suggested that locality be a consideration in the City of Winnipeg tendering…
