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Fast Facts: The View from Here Hasn’t Changed
Last week the Manitoba government held a community consultation to help with the development of its poverty reduction plan. The Manitoba Poverty Reduction Strategy Act…
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As the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing from 2000 to 2008, Miloon Kothari observed the failure of market-based approaches to…
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Canadian politicians have a long-standing tradition of proclaiming targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then failing to meet them. After a wake-up call in the…
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Ten considerations for the next Alberta budget
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Racialized Canadians continue to face barriers to decent work
Census data released by Statistics Canada today show us that racialized Canadians are more than willing to work but the barriers to finding employment that…
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Rising housing costs in Vancouver: New evidence from the Census
Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis is full of jaw-dropping anecdotes about home prices and rents. But with almost a million households in Metro Vancouver, there are…
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Sticker Shock: The impending cost of BC Hydro’s shift to private power developers – Ten years on
In April 2007, the BC government’s energy policy was rapidly transforming the province’s electricity system from publicly owned to one operated in the interests of…
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What the Just? Transitioning to a low carbon, good jobs economy
For most working people, environmental concerns have historically been a bit like Harvey Dent—two faced. One face says that poisoned water supplies and changing weather…
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Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
In 2015 Patrick Brown won the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) on a promise of party renewal and provincial change, but since then he…
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