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Alberta’s senior care expansion program is a real estate subsidy
Alberta’s Continuing Care Capital Program is shovelling public dollars into private real estate
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Panama, Alberta
“Nobody’s independent in the modern world,” says one of the men leading Alberta’s independence movement.
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The soldier, the banker, the oil tanker
In 2019, the Governor of the Bank of England told an audience of central bankers and technocrats in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that “we need to…
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The Gaza world order
Gaza has long been a warning of a new world order, now it is a blueprint—a testing ground, genocide laboratory, space of exception. The smaller…
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Years of lead in the Silicon Valley
In November 2019, time was up for Evo Morales. After election results started coming in, the Organization of American States questioned the validity of the…
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A branch plant for bombs
Canada’s February 2026 Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) frames defence production as central to Canadian security. It emerges amid U.S. pressure on NATO allies to increase…
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Most-favoured nation on a hill
A year and a half into his grotesque second presidency, Donald Trump’s uncontrolled demolition of international economic and foreign relations continues apace. To Make America…
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Closing the gaps: Gender pay inequity in Atlantic Canada
New report finds persistent gender pay gaps across Atlantic Canada, calls for stronger action on pay equity
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Protecting Manitoba’s publicly funded housing
A look at Manitoba’s new Housing and Renewal Corporation Amendment Act
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The post-secondary transition experiences of Indigenous and racialized students
CEDA Pathways graduates need more support in their post-secondary transition
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Manitoba housing needs and rental housing data 2025-26
This report provides extensive data to understand housing need and the affordability of rental housing in Manitoba for lower income households.
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Realizing potential: Reflections on policy responses to displaced persons in Manitoba
Supports available to newcomers under the special cohort-based initiatives for displaced Syrians, Afghans, and Ukrainians model what’s possible for Manitoba, and Canada.
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Why is the BC government targeting Victoria’s elected school board?
Democracy, waste, and the anatomy of a completely preventable fiasco
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Back to Blakeney: Keeping oil industry super-profits in Saskatchewan
The province has implemented excess profits taxes on the oil industry before. With no end in sight to the Iran war, it…
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Taxing billionaires — just like everyone else
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on June 10, 2026.
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Le déficit de financement des écoles de l’Ontario continue de s’accroître depuis 2018, pour atteindre les 6,5 milliards de dollars
Le sous-financement chronique est le problème; ce n’est pas la mauvaise gestion financière. On demande aux écoles année après année d’en faire…
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Panama, Alberta
“Nobody’s independent in the modern world,” says one of the men leading Alberta’s independence movement.
