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  • New job numbers in, still no credible evidence against minimum wage raise

      Canada Ontario Employment growth +1.2% +1.2% Unemployment rate +0.3% +0.2% Employment in wholesale and retail trade -2.0% – 1.3% Employment in food and accommodation…

  • Photo: BC Premier John Horgan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and executives from PetroChina, Shell and other LNG Canada corporations  congratulate themselves and one another. Credit: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bcgovphotos/44146121325/in/dateposted/">Province of BC</a> / Flickr.” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_LNGCanada.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_LNGCanada-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_oct2018_LNGCanada-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px” /></a><div  class=

    LNG Canada: Short-term politics trumps long-term climate responsibility

    LNG Canada’s final investment decision to build a natural gas liquefaction facility in Kitimat is a triumph of short-term politics over long-term responsibility to act on…

  • What we heard: Frequent, Affordable, Safe and Accessible

    The key to achieving a more equitable transportation system in Winnipeg Key Findings from the Transportation Townhall meeting Access to affordable, reliable, safe, and accessible…

  • Fast Facts: Drop the Stereotypes, and Deal with the Real Problem

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 28, 2018 In August the Free Press published an article (Safety complaints at Lord Selkirk Park, Aug.…

  • Elite private schools rake in public funds while special needs students go without

    Every year the BC government provides hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding to private schools, including elite prep schools. Given that BC’s public…

  • Gender equality: We’re going to need more than a week to make it real

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