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  • Hot sheet: News coverage in a warming world

    Hundreds of activists and organizers traveled to Ottawa last week to discuss the future of Canadian climate to counter climate change and climate injustice. Over…

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    Nine things to know about BC Budget 2019

    BC Budget 2019 delivers modest new investments in two key areas—poverty reduction and climate action—and maintains momentum on other files that implement the ambitious investments…

  • Work Life: Hard lessons from Europe’s austerity agenda

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 19, 2019 It’s been obvious since his election that Premier Pallister is committed to austerity. His government…

  • Budget 2019: Positive investments, but room for more

    VICTORIA—A new, more generous child benefit for children under 18, funding the CleanBC climate plan and capital investments in infrastructure around the province are positive…

  • Seniority and occasional teacher qualifications: Understanding Regulation 274

    Suggestions by the Ontario government that class size caps be lifted for primary students, or that full day kindergarten not be guaranteed beyond the 2019-20…

  • The all too ugly truth: Climate change is generational genocide

    When I first heard the phrase “generational genocide” used in the context of climate change, I was both shocked and skeptical. The term genocide is…

  • Fast Facts: A closer look at childcare affordability in Manitoba

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on February 13, 2019 A new report by CCPA National (Developmental Milestones:  Child Care Fees in Canada’s Big…

  • The cold calculus of care for children with autism in Ontario

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