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Fast Facts: Why the Pain for Women in Manitoba Jails?
The Free Press (May 23 and 26, 2018) recently reported on the case of an Indigenous man who served more than six months in jail…
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Overcoming the new precariat: The future of work
“Jobs for life” were being replaced with concepts like downsizing, the 1990s word for mass layoffs, and golden handshakes, the euphemism for early retirement, which…
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Manitoba program model for National Housing Benefit
A shelter benefit called for by community advocates and developed in Manitoba is a model for the rest of the country. Rent Assist has offered…
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Fast Facts: A Comparison of the Carbon Tax Rebates to Families in Manitoba and British Columbia 2017
When British Columbia introduced its carbon tax, it provided a rebate to families to offset the higher cost of goods and services created by that…
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CCPA calls on Auditor General to investigate stunning $1-billion annual increase in provincial natural gas-drilling subsidy program
VANCOUVER – An unprecedented increase in a special “credit” account set up by the BC government to subsidize the fracking industry should be immediately investigated…
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British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch…
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So how sound are the claims being used to justify the federal government’s expenditure of up to $12 billion in taxpayer funds to purchase Kinder…
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Comparing fiscal platforms in the Ontario election
Heading into Ontario’s June 7 election, the three major political parties have made distinct expenditure promises and revenue announcements. Let’s look at these fiscal plans…
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Pipe Dreams: The risky bets behind Ottawa’s TMX purchase
The federal government’s decision, announced this morning, to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion…
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