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The First Rung on the Ladder: Community-based Literacy Programming in Public Housing Complexes
Download 859.53 KB18 pages A wealth of evidence—both global and local—confirms the value of literacy, and the importance of programs that promote literacy. This is especially the case for low-income individuals and communities, for whom gains in literacy can be transformative. Read full report by clicking green button above.
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Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days. While…
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Challenging Racist British Columbia booklet weaves together history and present day anti-racist work during province’s 150th year
VANCOUVER — The 150th anniversary of British Columbia joining Canada arrives at a time when people and institutions are being asked to reckon with the foundational impacts of racism in our society. Challenging Racist British Columbia: 150 Years and Counting, is a new publication examining the long history of racist…
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Who’s the boss? “The Elf on the Shelf” and the normalization of surveillance
Are we using play to prepare children to accept increasingly intrusive surveillance?
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Will proposed new Senators be an aristocracy of the distinguished?
Ruth Ellen Brosseau is a Member of Parliament against the odds. A single mother and the assistant manager of a pub, she was elected in 2011, as Wikipedia describes her, as a “paper candidate” because the NDP had no viable nominee in the riding.” But here’s the thing. She worked…
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The Monitor, November/December 2015
Canada and Climate Change Download 10.9 MB There is a new government in Ottawa, led by a party that promised, during the long election campaign, to provide national leadership on climate change, put a price on carbon and work with the provinces to lower emissions. As Liberal Prime Minister Justin…
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Fast Facts: Na-gah mo Waabishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino (Singing White Crane Flying North)
Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation In many Indigenous Nations across the world, research is a contentious word because it has often been associated with a process of examination and analysis which lead to colonial judgments on Indigenous ways of life. As an extension of research, evaluation can also be…
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End of a painful era
The longest election in Canadian memory has produced a new government and a decisive end to the Harper era. The reasons are not especially complicated: Canadians demanded change in Ottawa, and an end to the “politics of fear and divisiveness,” as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau told us repeatedly along the…
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The Leap is ambitious, but it’s not the end of capitalism
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another was launched by a group of prominent Canadians on September 15. So far, over 25,000 Canadians have added their names to the declaration. In the face of the ho-hum party platforms on offer, many…
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The Leap Manifesto is ambitious, but it’s not the end of capitalism
Only “Radical” Next to Parties’ Modest Climate Plans The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Canada Based on Caring for the Earth and One Another was launched by a group of prominent Canadians on September 15. So far, over 25,000 Canadians have added their names to the declaration. In the face…
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2010 living wage shows the real costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – $18.17 is the 2010 family living wage, according to a report released today that calculates an hourly wage based on the real costs of raising a family in Vancouver. Working for a Living Wage 2010: Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in…
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The Monitor, September/October 2015
Election 2015 Download 8.54 MB The September/October issue of the Monitor goes beyond party politics to look at the economic context and big issues framing this year’s federal election. In this issue, progressive voices assess the Conservative government record and the state of Canada’s democracy on the eve of the…
