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Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…
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Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives…
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Does Canada’s Sustainable Jobs Plan deliver on the promise of a just transition?
The interim Sustainable Jobs Plan is a solid framework for advancing a workforce development agenda, but there are important sticking points.
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Big challenges and opportunities for the BC budget
British Columbia is facing big social and environmental challenges ahead of Budget 2023: sky high rents, health care under enormous strain, a toxic drugs crisis,…
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No strings attached
As emergency rooms are overwhelmed, surgery wait times continue to lengthen, and under-resourced childrens’ hospitals face surges related to viral infections like COVID, the provincial…
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What we can learn from Québec’s Health in All Policies approach
One notable element is that it requires a health impact assessment to be conducted on policies within and outside of the health sector. This is…
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No Strings Attached: Canada’s health care deal lacks key conditions
There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.…
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