Search results for “apachesolr_search/"http:/www.shutterstock.com/editorial”

  • Increasing number of Nova Scotia children living in poverty—findings of the 2020 Report Card just released

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT December 9, 2020 Halifax/Wolfville– In Nova Scotia there are 41,370 children who live in poverty based on the most recent data. The 2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that the percentage of children living in low-income circumstances in Nova…

  • A win for BC workers: single-step union certification

    The BC government recently introduced legislation that allows a majority of workers in a workplace to organize a union a little more easily, making it harder for employers to intimidate and interfere in organizing drives. That’s good news both for working people and for the quality of our democracy. Single-step…

  • Stack of papers with a magnifying glass resting on them

    Time to end information hide-and-seek games: Public deserves more prompt government disclosure of basic data

    No one should be told to file a Freedom of Information request simply to learn who works for them. Government must give members of the public access to up-to-date and useful information on who is there to serve them and quit obfuscating and abusing access to information laws, Ben Parfitt…

  • Fast Facts: Jim Silver has built a remarkable career as an academic, author, and activist.

    Jim’s academic studies started at the University of Winnipeg, where he graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science in 1975. He went on to complete a Masters in Political Science at Carleton University in 1976, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1981.…

  • Human Rights Commission has opportunity to change workplace culture around sexual harassment

    Sexual harassment in the workplace has been a focus of recent talk and action, spurred on by the #MeToo movement. As one of many ways in which women continue to experience inequality at work, more needs to be done to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. The forthcoming BC Human…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Research for Communities: Justice Starts Here

    A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba In the report Justice Starts Here: A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba, authors Allison Fenske and Beverly Froese from the Public Interest Law Centre spoke with community groups who provide programming, opportunities, and services to people…

  • Time to end profit-making in seniors’ care

    The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors’ care system, as nursing homes quickly became the epicenters of the outbreak. These problems are not only due to the greater vulnerability of seniors to the disease, but also to how care is organized and staffed.  In…

  • A portion of a massive, 3,000-hectare clear-cut in the Kerry Lake East region near the community of McLeod Lake on treaty lands held by the McLeod Lake Indian Band. Photo: Conservation North

    BC First Nation logs almost all of its treaty lands, leaving behind lots of stumps and questions

      In just three years, much of the McLeod Lake Indian Band’s treaty lands were stripped of their bountiful and exceedingly valuable trees in a surge of logging that included one massive clear-cut that is almost 3,000 hectares in size, or 7.5 times larger than Vancouver’s Stanley Park.   The extensive…

  • Will CanWest’s bankruptcy lead to more media concentration or new opportunities?

    There is an old political adage that you should never argue with someone who buys their ink by the barrel.  Let’s ignore that good advice for a minute and talk about the CanWest bankruptcy. CanWest, Canada’s largest media company, filed for bankruptcy protection for its assets which include all of…

  • Thanks to generous BC government subsidies, wood pellet mill yards are overflowing with logs culled from the interior region’s primary or old-growth forests. Photo: Stand.earth.

    The great tree robbery

    As more old-growth trees topple and forest industry jobs plummet, an obscure government subsidy scheme fuels the collapse For more than 15 years, the BC government has rewarded logging companies with millions of additional old-growth trees to chop down thanks to an obscure “credit” program that allows companies to log…

  • The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

    Tax havens siphon $500 billion a year from gov’t revenues In today’s globalized world, tax evasion is occurring on a massive scale. As corporations and wealthy individuals shift their assets into offshore tax havens, the annual loss in global tax revenues is more than $500 billion. This huge revenue shortfall…

  • BC government charging major users very little for water and only loosely tracking industrial water use, research shows

    VANCOUVER—Major companies including mining juggernaut Teck Resources, the world’s largest aluminum maker Rio Tinto Alcan and natural gas processor WestCoast Energy Inc. pay shockingly little for water they take from British Columbia’s lakes, rivers and streams. Of greater concern, most industrial water users rarely, if ever, are required to meter…