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Closing the gaps: Gender pay inequity in Atlantic Canada
New report finds persistent gender pay gaps across Atlantic Canada, calls for stronger action on pay equity
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Canada’s biggest threats to privacy aren’t what you think
Effective privacy legislation in Canada needs to prioritize the biggest threats—private and extraterritorial surveillance
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Parental rights and the surging demand for censorship in Canadian schools
Libraries are the battleground in censorship wars; academic freedom and critical thinking are casualties. What does this mean for students?
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When violence is the system speaking: What Ontario’s schools are telling us
Violence in classrooms is the result of staffing erosion and the offloading of social crises onto unprepared and underfunded schools
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The hollowing out of public postsecondary education: What do we have to lose?
Is post-secondary education in Canada a pipeline to train students for jobs or a source of critical perspectives essential to a healthy society?
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The Alberta government legislates two-tier health care, again
As the province becomes the first to encourage self-referral testing—it’s literally “me first” policy
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What happens to data centres when the AI bubble pops?
As multi-million dollar data centres proliferate, what happens if the A.I. bubble bursts?
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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed
The current windfall could be Canadian oil’s final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning
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Nova Scotia Risks the Loss of Local Stories and Diverse Voices with Cuts to Publishing Industry
April 1st, 2026 KJIPUKTUK/HALIFAX – Today, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia Office published Risking the Loss of Critical Ideas and Diverse…
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Risking the loss of critical ideas and diverse voices: Nova Scotia book publishers facing unprecedented instability
What would our world be like if the only books available to readers eager to learn were published by large multinational corporations?
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Trump’s war on Canadian cultural policy
Why the Online News Act and Online Streaming Act are in the crosshairs of the CUSMA review
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Solidarity philanthropy: Changing how we give to support social change
Philanthropic donors need to step up as advocates to change the system that created the need for philanthropy in the first place.

















