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Yes, let’s lower the voting age in Canada.
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alt.policy (Episode 4)
What’s wrong with the TPP? Canada has said it will sign on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new twelve-country international economic pact. But the corporate-driven…
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Oil by rail: Have the lessons of Lac-Mégantic been learned?
With pipeline approvals stalled—Keystone XL denied, Northern Gateway dead, Energy East and Kinder Morgan in deep trouble— the oil industry is running out of room.…
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No free feminist lunch, Mr. Prime Minister
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Refugees are bringing new attention to the gaps in our social safety net
As we welcome refugees in larger numbers this year, the spotlight is turned on our disintegrating social infrastructure. For example, Government Assisted Refugees (GAR) receive…
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Ontario goes it alone on public pensions
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The Next Step
Literacy Programming in Manitoba Download 342.69 KB20 pages Economists have estimated that low literacy levels cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars annually (Gulati 2013;…
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Where do provincial by-election candidates stand on employment standards?
The February 2 by-elections in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain offer an opportunity for candidates to clarify their parties’ positions on an important, often neglected,…
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Site C: Too risky to rely on one river system for BC’s hydro needs
In the face of a prolonged drought, water levels at Lake Mead, the giant hydroelectric reservoir that straddles the Nevada and Arizona borders, are lower…
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