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BC government plans for LNG exports require extensive impact on water, land, climate; jeopardize energy security: major new study

Release Date: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

(Vancouver) As the BC and federal governments continue to push for LNG (liquefied natural gas) development and export, a major new study details the consequences of ramping up fracking and LNG production: not only serious environmental and climate impacts, but grave risks to Canada’s energy security if conducted at the scale envisaged by the BC government.

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Stuart Trew unpacks the Trans-Pacific Partnership on The Agenda

Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have called it an historic opportunity for Canada. But critics consider it secretive, dangerous, and even potentially undemocratic. CCPA's Stuart Trew appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin to help unpack the massive trade deal and discuss its implications and consequences for the Canadian economy.

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Le PTP et le Canada

Release Date: 
Friday, May 22, 2015
Attached Document Title: 
Le PTP et le Canada
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5 pages
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Cette fiche d'information fournit des renseignements sur le Partenariat Transpacifique (PTP), un accord de commerce et d’investissement que douze pays négocient depuis 2008. La fiche d'information donne un aperçu des enjeux et conséquences de la participation du Canada dans le PTP, ainsi que le type de restrictions le PTP met sur la politique et la réglementation gouvernementale.

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The TPP and Canada

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Friday, May 22, 2015
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The TPP and Canada
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4 pages
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This 4-page fact sheet provides readers with background on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-country trade and investment treaty negotiation that began in 2008. The fact sheet outlines some of the issues and consequences of Canada's involvement in the TPP, as well the kind of restrictions the TTP puts on government policy and regulation.

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Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2015

Constellations of Black Radical Imagining: Black Arts and Popular Education
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Release Date: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is a collective response to the demonstrable lack of educational resources that focus on and speak to continental and diasporic African communities. It explores how Blackness has shaped the ways in which we as African educators, cultural producers, and curators imagine and relate to notions of learning, knowledge production and popular education.

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[Preview] Spring 2015: Table of Contents & Introduction
[Preview] Spring 2015: Art, Memories & The Grenada Revolution

From Patchwork Quilt to Sturdy Foundation

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CCPA-NS Submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review
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Thursday, May 14, 2015
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From Patchwork Quilt to Sturdy Foundation: CCPA-NS Submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review
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10 pages
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On May 14, 2015, CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier, and CCPA-NS Research Associate Tammy Findlay, wrote this submission to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development’s Regulated Child Care Review. 

“It’s Home”

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Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Release Date: 
Thursday, May 14, 2015
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"It's Home": Listening to Female Post-Secondary Students in Northern Manitoba, Canada
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24 pages
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Our research study responds to questions: how do female students define and measure their own successes? And what factors have contributed to their successes? Bonnycastle and Simpkins interviewed 27 female postsecondary students. See full report above.

A Penny For Your Thoughts

How corporatization devalues teaching, research, and public service in Canada’s universities
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Simmering conflicts in higher education have reached the boiling point across Canada and around the globe. Teach-ins, occupations, strikes, and mass protests are being mobilized against exorbitant tuition fees, declining educational quality, mismanagement, the commodification of research, and the suppression of free speech and critical inquiry. A Penny For Your Thoughts shows how Canadian higher education has come to this point.

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[Preview] Table of Contents, Preface & Introduction