An American company wanted to build a massive fossil fuel project in Quebec. After full public debate, the provincial and federal governments rejected the plan based on environmental concerns. The company launched a record-breaking trade lawsuit against Canada—confirming the dire threat that investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) poses to bold climate action. 

This is the first province-wide effort to calculate a regionally-sensitive living wage in Newfoundland and Labrador. The living wage rates for the four regions are:

This edition of Selling Saskatchewan marks our third update of the history of privatization, contracting-out of public services and public-private-partnerships under the Saskatchewan Party government. Despite often claiming that they harbour no “privatization agenda,” we estimate that the government has sold off over $1.2 billion in public assets and eliminated over 2,000 public sector jobs via privatization and out-sourcing since coming to power.

Over the last three decades, no province in Canada has moved more aggressively, or more consistently, to cut public funding to universities than Ontario. Ontario’s funding model, if it can be called that, is simply less funding, year after year.