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National Office

Employment & Labour
Income & Wealth Inequality
News Release

Unemployment rate has likely already doubled, 2 million workers at immediate risk of layoff in Canada: Analysis
Unemployment rates Feb 2020 Best case Realistic case Newly unemployed – Realistic case Canada 5.9% 10.9% 13.5% 1,528,050 …
March 26, 2020
National Office

Climate Change
COVID-19
Just Recovery
News & Commentary

6 lessons for climate action from Canada’s COVID-19 response
The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that demands immediate and decisive action. Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to contain the…
March 25, 2020
Ontario

COVID-19
News & Commentary
Provincial Budgets

The COVID-19 budget: Queen’s Park takes a stand
Ontario Finance Minister Rod Phillips presented his Economic and Fiscal Update at Queen’s Park today, tabling the Ford government’s battle plan to combat the health and economic…
March 25, 2020
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BC

COVID-19
Employment & Labour
Housing & Homelessness
Income & Wages
Policy Note
The Economy

A closer look at the BC COVID-19 Action Plan
Less than two weeks have passed since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic and the fast-spreading virus has already led to large-scale economic…
March 25, 2020
BC

COVID-19
Housing & Homelessness
Policy Note

Time to #CancelRent and defer mortgage payments
UPDATE On March 25, the BC government announced a suite of measures to protect renters during the COVID-19 crisis, including a ban on new and…
March 25, 2020
Manitoba

Child Care
Children & Youth

Fast Facts: Pandemic Punctures Childcare Illusion
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, March 25, 2020. Who knew that childcare would punch through as a key priority in a global pandemic?…
March 25, 2020
Manitoba

Health Care

Fast Facts: COVID-19 Testing in Manitoba: The Importance of the Whole Story
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, said Monday. “To win, we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics: testing every…
March 25, 2020
National Office

Federal Budgets
Housing & Homelessness
News & Commentary

Affordable housing, homelessness and the upcoming federal budget
This year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) was released on March 17. It provides an alternative fiscal framework for Canada’s federal government; it’s released ahead of the actual…
March 24, 2020
Manitoba

Housing & Homelessness
Reports

Old Grace A History of the Organization and Construction of the Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative
Download 1.11 MB58 pages In June 2019, Old Grace Not-for-Profit Housing Co-operative (OGHC) held its grand opening. The first members of the 64-unit co-op in…
March 24, 2020

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