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Manitoba

Gender Equality
Housing & Homelessness

Fast Facts: 4 things to know about women and homelessness in Canada
First published on CCPA’s Behind the Numbers Anywhere between 30,000 and 200,000 people are homeless in Canada, with another 1.7 million unable to afford adequate,…
August 26, 2016
National Office

News & Commentary
Pensions, CPP, OAS, GIC

Ten Things to Know About Federal Income Support for Low-Income Seniors in Canada
In the latest edition of How Ottawa Spends, we have a chapter titled “The Federal Government and Old Age Security: Then, Now, and the Future.” The focus…
August 25, 2016
National Office

Mining
News & Commentary
Trade

How a Russian mining company used a Canadian investment treaty to sue Venezuela for $1.5 billion
Rusoro Mining declared victory yesterday in its four-year legal battle with the government of Venezuela over the nationalization of the gold industry in 2011. The company was…
August 24, 2016
BC

Education
News Release

Analysis finds that BC’s “record levels” of K-12 education funding are a fiction
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–Contrary to provincial government claims that education funding is at “record levels”, new analysis released today finds that education funding…
August 24, 2016
BC

Education
Reports

What’s the real story behind BC’s education funding crisis?
Download 657.31 KB8 pages This short paper challenges the BC government’s rhetoric that education funding is at “record levels”, and shows that BC can afford to…
August 24, 2016
BC

Education

Infographic: Is BC education funding really at “record levels”?
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August 24, 2016
BC

Education
News & Commentary

Why the provincial government should stop bragging about K-12 education funding
For families getting ready to send their children back to underfunded and overcrowded classrooms, it’s no secret that BC’s public education system is stretched to…
August 24, 2016
Manitoba

Infrastructure, Cities & Transit

Growth Charges: All Winnipeggers have a stake
The issue of development fees has made headlines again as the consultant hired to take on another study of growth financing in Winnipeg, Hemson Consulting…
August 24, 2016
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BC

Environment & Sustainability
Policy Note
The Economy

How the so-called “Clean Energy Plan” still wreaks havoc on BC Hydro’s rates
My wife says I hold on to things too long. Still, when I read BC Hydro’s most recent rate application to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC), I…
August 22, 2016

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