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Canada’s Colour Coded Income Inequality

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Monday, December 9, 2019
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This report uses 2016 Census data to compare work and income trends among racialized and non-racialized Canadians. Overall, the report finds significant barriers remain entrenched along racial and gender lines, with little change between 2006-16. The paper also looks beyond the labour market more broadly at economic inequality including differences in income from investments and capital between racialized and non-racialized Canadians.

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Le Canada échoue à réduire le racisme persistant sur le marché du travail : Rapport

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Monday, December 9, 2019

TORONTO ET OTTAWA — Malgré une population de plus en plus diverse, un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui révèle que peu ou pas de progrès ont été réalisés dans la réduction du racisme sur le marché du travail.

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Canada has failed to reduce persistent racism in the labour market: Report

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Monday, December 9, 2019

TORONTO & OTTAWA — Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report released today reveals that little-to-no progress has been made towards reducing racism in labour market outcomes.  

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Planning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver

To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new units annually of non-market rental housing is needed and should include public housing and co-ops that are truly affordable for ordinary households. 

The greatest need is rental housing for low- to moderate-income households, precisely the kind of housing that is unprofitable for private-sector developers who would rather build luxury units for sale to the highest bidders worldwide. 

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Crude Lessons

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Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
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With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.

Oil Industry Influence in Saskatchewan public schools: Report

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

REGINA⁠—With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.

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Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World out now

A new book edited by Edouard Morena, Dunja Krause and Dimitris Stevis, Just Transitions: Social Justice in the Shift Towards a Low-Carbon World, explores the question "How can we secure jobs in the shift towards sustainable production?"

The book features a chapter written by CCPA senior researcher, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Parkland Institute's Ian Hussey. Their chapter offers a critical account of Canada’s government-led phase-out of the coal sector.

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Fossil Futures

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The Canada Pension Plan’s Failure to Respect the 1.5-Degree Celsius Limit
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages one of the country’s largest pools of investment capital at over $400 billion. How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed energy transition away from fossil fuels. This report asks if the CPPIB is investing with the 1.5-degree Celsius limit on global average temperature rise as outlined in the Paris Agreement and finds it is not. 

Canada Pension Plan’s ongoing investments in fossil fuels: a moral and ecological failure and financial risk

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

(Vancouver) How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed transition from fossil fuels, says a report released today by the Corporate Mapping Project and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office. 

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