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The CCPA’s National Office was established in 1980. Located in Ottawa, it coordinates the CCPA’s national research agenda.
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Calculating the “rental wage” in every Canadian neighbourhood in 2024
How much do you need to earn to afford an apartment in your neighborhood?
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Making Rent: The CCPA’s rental wage update 2024
It’s almost cliche to say that the high cost of housing is at the heart of Canada’s affordability crisis. Although much media attention is placed…
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The federal government’s coming “red tape review” is bad news
At the beginning of July, Shafqat Ali, president of Canada’s Treasury Board, announced the launch of a “red tape review” of regulations across federal departments…
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A brief history of Canadian government strikebreaking
“You didn’t make any provisions before?” BNN Bloomberg host Andrew Bell asked Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau, sounding somewhat dumbfounded. “To ensure the passengers, or…
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Is the law the last bastion of climate action?
The following is a re-print of the July 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Elbows up, or bend the knee?
International political discourse in 2025 has been haunted by the spectre of Donald Trump and his brute force reshaping of global trade relationships to the…
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In Alberta, “parental rights” and privatization go hand in hand
In recent years, public education systems have become a battleground in a culture war fomented by the far right. The points of contention include manufactured…
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I am become woke, destroyer of schools
In early 2022, then-elementary school teacher, Caroline Burjoski (or the ‘cancelled teacher,’ as she later self-branded), attempted to expose what she characterized as wildly inappropriate…
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The emotional discourses of parental rights: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act
Across the globe, governments are passing anti-LGBTQ+ curriculum laws that curtail queer and gender-inclusive education initiatives, prohibit trans students’ inclusion in sports, and require the…
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Wrong, again: The political evolution of “parental rights”
As editors, each of us came to this special issue of Our Schools/Our Selves with both shared and distinct concerns about the recent iteration of…
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It was the best of times: Tracing the roots of the “parental rights” movement
I have always been a fan of how historical narratives evolve, and how they influence current contexts. And, often, how that history is then erased…
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Gender shocks, public education, and the crisis of democratic care
The rise of Canada’s parental rights movement isn’t just about sex ed or trans youth—it marks the return of an ideological project that seeks to…
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