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What you need to know about BC Budget 2016
“The measure of any society is reflected in the degree to which it is willing to help the most vulnerable.” Mike de Jong in the BC…
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Honouring Dr Kerry Preibisch
I am writing to honour the legacy of Dr Kerry Preibisch, a much loved University of Guelph professor who passed away on January 28th after…
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The federal election is over. Now can we really talk about how to improve gender equality?
After an election campaign in which women’s equality became a rhetorical tool in a divisive attempt to instill fear and xenophobia in voters and control…
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A petro state, a fracking frenzy and one woman’s battle for justice: Andrew Nikiforuk’s latest should be required reading for MLAs
Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book, Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry, captures like never before how fossil fuel companies must do more and more to coax oil and gas from the ground. And how that each time more effort is made, the social and environmental costs mount.
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Can the federal parties’ child care proposals pay for the $10 a Day Plan?
We’ve been glad to see child care emerge as a key issue in this federal election, with three major parties (Greens, Liberals and NDP) vying…
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Child care and the federal election: where have the parties landed?
By Lynell Anderson and Iglika Ivanova Canada is one of the few advanced countries that doesn’t yet have a national child care system. We invest…
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$10 a day child care: smart public policy whose time has come
Imagine if the BC government put as much energy and effort into solving BC’s child care crisis as it does in promoting LNG. This week, our Premier recalled…
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Why the Metro Vancouver living wage is not enough for single parents and how to fix it
The living wage calculation is based on the needs of two-parent families with young children, but the idea behind it is that this wage would…
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Yes Mr. Harper It Is A Sociological Phenomenon
This piece originally appeared on Blogging for Equality. Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights Issues Breakthrough Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The Inter‑American…
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Child care is a human right
By Lynell and Melanie Anderson Our understanding of rights evolves along with society, yet the required and corresponding evolution in government policy in BC is…
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It’s time to seriously tackle child poverty
One in five BC children lives in poverty. This is the sobering finding of the 2014 BC Child Poverty Report Card released on November 24th,…
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Child care unaffordability in Canada’s cities and what to do about it
A new report from the CCPA takes a closer look at child care fees in Canada’s biggest 22 cities and shows just how unaffordable child…
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