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    Basic research is the key to future progress

    Decades before most of us had ever heard the phrase “novel coronavirus,” researchers at universities around the world were advancing our understanding of vaccines. Their basic research laid the foundation to develop the vaccines that changed the course of the pandemic, in record time.

  • Reading the policy tea leaves: What BC’s new cabinet appointments tell us about the government’s priorities

    In the absence of mandate letters, let’s take a look at what the new cabinet picks and the reorganization of some key ministries tell us, in light of NDP and Green election promises.

  • Labour Matters

    The Monitor, May/June 2023

    The Labour Issue: Rebuilding the working class Download 3.85 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here On International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the power of workers—together, we have the power to fundamentally transform the economy. That’s why this issue of the Monitor focuses on labour power. In…

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    Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education

    The way we talk about privatization matters. Our language should reflect both the moment we’re in, and what we’re working towards.

    Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts. University of Toronto Press: Toronto, ON.

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  • Climate Justice Project

    Time for BC to start preparing for climate migration: A question of justice

    The world is already witnessing severe impacts of climate change on lives and livelihoods. Global damage from climate change and fossil fuel development was estimated at $1.2 trillion in 2010, or 1.6 per cent of world GDP, and is projected to rise to 3.2 per cent by 2030. Over the…

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  • Property tax reform can address economic and housing inequality in BC, new research

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–The explosion of housing prices has become a massive source of inequality in BC, which can be addressed with progressive property tax reform, new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office shows. As home prices and rents have risen dramatically amid a…

  • Work Life: 18 Prominent Manitobans Fail the Canada Challenge

    The ancestors of 18 prominent Manitobans would all be turned away if they applied today to immigrate to Canada.  That was the finding of the first Manitobans to take The Canada Challenge, a quiz that all Canadians were invited to take as they walked through Osborne Village on Canada Day…

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    New protections for BC platform workers entrench racism

    In November 2023, the BC Ministry of Labour announced new employment standards that claim to “bring fairness” to the estimated 40,000 ride-hail and food-delivery workers in BC. The move comes after a year of public engagement with platform workers, platform companies and labour experts, which brought to the fore the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada at risk of lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Budget Fédéral Alternatif 2023

    Se mesurer au defi Download 3.59 MB 214 pages Le Canada se trouve à un carrefour. Nous sommes confrontés à de nombreux problèmes pressants qui exigent des actions immédiates, notamment : La COVID-19 et ses répercussions, l’inflation qui gruge des chèques de paie stagnants, nos réseaux de santé poussés à leurs…