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  • Organizing Accessibility and Intersectionality through 15-Minute Cities

    For a 15-minute city to properly serve all people, it needs to be undertaken for all people.

    For a 15-minute city to properly serve all people, it needs to be undertaken for all people.

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    Closing the Gap between a living wage and minimum wages in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Our detailed submission outlines reasoning and evidence to support key recommendations to ensure that the minimum wage provides sufficient protection for workers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

  • Fast Facts: Valuing the Voice of People Living with Disabilities in Manitoba

    Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the 2018-19 fiscal year. It can be very difficult for an organization to function without core funding which diminishes its capacity. The organization (formally known as the…

  • Raising the bar: Improving the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ youth

    Earlier this week, Wisdom2Action launched two ground-breaking new resources, designed in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Planned Parenthood Toronto, the Canadian Teachers Federation, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, focused on “Raising the Bar’…

  • 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…

  • As deadline looms, what’s BC government’s plan for 15,000 businesses who will soon be violating provincial water laws?

    In just days from now, March 1 to be exact, the BC government is going to find itself in difficult straits. That’s the day that all businesses in the province who rely on well water or groundwater to run their operations must, by law, have applied for a licence to…

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    As wood pellet exports to Japan surge, BC’s primary forests feel the strain

    In the land of the rising sun, the light of a setting sun glints so brightly on the shiny metal piping of Renova’s Ishinomaki Hibarino power plant that you have to shield your eyes. Located near the city of Sendai, north of Tokyo, the new thermal electricity plant is one…

  • 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…

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    How should Ontario fight inflation? By fighting inequality

    As pundits puzzle over the problem of inflation, some provincial governments are taking action. Methods differ, but they are all based on the same idea: when inflation is high, people need money. Quebec is giving $500 to all adults with incomes below $100,000. Alberta and Ontario have cut, or pledged…

  • Federal budget makes inroads into dental care; Missed opportunity on pharmacare and long-term care

    There’s room to go bolder on climate change, housing, EI, the care economy, taxes READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA —Today’s federal commitment to create a national dental care program will help millions of Canadians, but many key areas like long-term care and pharmacare are missing in action, says Canadian…

  • The Monitor, July/August 2020

    How to End Canada’s Long-term Care Crisis Download 5.27 MB The summer issue of the Monitor features two previously published reports on the crisis in Canada’s nursing homes, one from the CCPA’s national office, Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in the COVID-19 Crisis, and one from the CCPA-BC, Time to End Profit-making in Seniors’ Care.…

  • Charitable Organizations: A Pillar of Democracy

    A variation of this blog post was published in the weekend Huffington Post as part of PEN Canada’s blog series examining freedom of expression for Non-Speak Week. While you’re reading this, about two million employees are busy trying to make our world a little bit better through their work at Canada’s 80,000+ registered charitable organizations.…