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BC

Climate Change
Environment & Sustainability
Policy Note

A burning issue: As greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration
As one of the largest and the most extensively forested countries in the world, Canada faces unique challenges in tackling climate change. Wildfires are burning…
March 27, 2019
BC

Policy Note
Provincial Budgets
Tax Policy
The Economy

Reality check: Only BC’s very richest paying higher tax rate
Under personal tax changes announced by the BC government over the past year and a half—including elimination of Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums—the vast majority…
March 25, 2019
Nova Scotia

News & Commentary
Nova Scotia
Provincial Budgets

A Green New Deal for Nova Scotia Needed Now: Alternative Budgets Lay the Ground
(Thousands $) Fiscal Baseline 2018-19* Alternative Budget 2019-20 Alternative Budget 2020-21 Alternative Budget 2021-22 Revenue $10,525,400 $11,764,152 $12,232,287 $12,947,398 Programme Spending $9,667,900 $12,112,704 $12,537,469 $13,189,940…
March 25, 2019
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BC

Climate Change
Environment & Sustainability
Fracking & LNG
Policy Note

Shaking the Peace: Fracking-induced earthquakes rattle BC Hydro execs and farmers alike
BC Hydro officials were so alarmed by an earthquake that shook the ground at its sprawling Site C dam construction project in late November, they…
March 21, 2019
National Office

Child Care
Federal Budgets
Gender Equality
News & Commentary

Budget 2019: A win for the women’s movement—but we won’t get there without child care
A meaningful feminist agenda demands bold action and sustained funding to achieve significant change in the lives of women and girls. Budget 2019 targets many…
March 21, 2019
Saskatchewan

News & Commentary
Provincial Budgets
Saskatchewan

SK Budget 2019: “Thanks for cleaning up the mess we made!”
Yesterday’s Saskatchewan budget didn’t hold many surprises and that was probably to be expected. Scott Moe’s government has yet to face the electorate and has…
March 21, 2019
National Office

Care Economy
Federal Budgets
News & Commentary

Budget 2019: A small step on the long road to national pharmacare
For many observers, incremental change has come to define the federal government’s approach to policy change. With the release of this week’s federal budget, it…
March 21, 2019
Manitoba

Health Care

Fast Facts: Austerity is bad for your health
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 23, 2019 as Three thousand patients in a bind. On March 2, a news release issued by…
March 21, 2019
National Office

Climate Change
Energy Policy
Environment & Sustainability
Federal Budgets
Just Transition
News & Commentary

Budget 2019 fiddles while climate crisis looms
Climate action under the current federal government has followed a now-familiar pattern: identify the need for real change, commit to taking ambitious action, and then propose modest…
March 20, 2019

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