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  • New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity

    Gig work is widely recognized as having all of the characteristics of precarious employment: typically temporary, part-time or casual, low paid, lacking in predictable work hours and job security without health and welfare benefits and protections.  Research into precarious gig work in BC has revealed that app-based ride-hail and food…

  • Making Women Count

    The Best and Worst Place to be a Woman in Canada

    An Index of Gender Equality in Canada’s Twenty Largest Metropolitan Areas Download 715.37 KB58 pages This study reveals the best and worst places to be a woman in Canada. It ranks Canada’s 20 largest metropolitan areas based on a comparison of how men and women are faring in five areas:…

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    The Cost of Poverty in Manitoba

    Health costs $347 million Crime $197 million  Opportunity Costs $1.6 billion  Intergenerational $324 million  Total cost of poverty in Manitoba $2.5 billion Cost per Manitoban $1,952 Poverty cost as a percent of Manitoba’s GDP 3.4%  Source: Author’s calculations based on data from various sources including Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey Public Use Microdata File. See Plante (2020) for details.

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    Why has UBC divested from fossil fuels but UVic has not? The high cost of industry influence

    The death and disruption wrought by COVID-19 is calamitous. The bad news is that climate change will be worse. It is easy to forget that 2020 began with Australia burning in a brutal wildfire season. Like the current pandemic, Australia’s disaster was predicted years in advance by ecological science. As…

  • Work Life: Provinces, including Manitoba are richer than they think

    Across Canada, initial provincial budget projections early in the pandemic showed provinces would be struggling with large deficits for years to come. Since 2020-2021, these estimates have been adjusted, showing smaller deficits than expected. Improved provincial finances are a result of: Better than expected revenue Additional fiscal transfers from the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The implications for Canada of a fast-tracked Trans-Pacific Partnership

    As the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations slouch toward an agreement, supporters have cranked the volume on their praise for what is sometimes called the “NAFTA of the Pacific.” Critics, of which there are a growing number, prefer “NAFTA on steroids” – a sign the 12-country pact can only lead to…

  • The Patriarchal Illusion of Control

    Ruinous drive for power and control primarily masculine The poster publicizing David Suzuki’s 1985 television series A Planet for the Taking stated: “We have long thought of ourselves as masters of the natural world, but now that drive to dominate and control is having dangerous consequences. Can we change the…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us

    Community health centres (CHCs) have been an effective but under-valued model for delivering primary health care1 for decades in Canada and the US. One of the unique features of the model is its strong focus on the social determinants of health and preventing acute illness among groups who are more likely to experience poor health and…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    What will Trump target in a NAFTA renegotiation?

    On his first full day in office, Donald Trump made good on his pledge to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), effectively killing the deal. The administration then turned its sights on overhauling NAFTA, which may be more curse than blessing for Canada.Under NAFTA Article 2205, any party can withdraw…

  • People holding up a sign saying “BC needs pay equity legislation!”

    We know BC has a gender pay gap – it’s time to do something about it

    This article is excerpted from an open letter released today by a coalition that CCPA-BC helped to convene, and that includes Indigenous organizations, workers’ rights groups, labour unions, law and policy advocates, researchers and community leaders. Want to add your voice to the call? Individuals can sign on here, and…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2022

    Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines the role that wellness influencers like Oh She Glows’ Angela Liddon play in funneling white women into right-wing radicalization. Uprooting the racism in our ranks. Members…

  • Fast Facts: Canadian Premium Sand Doubles Down With Its Revamped Silica Sand Mine Development Project

    Canadian Premium Sand (CPS) is an Alberta-based company proposing to operate a silica sand mine adjacent to Hollow Water First Nation, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg. The company has substantially revamped its proposal from 2019 and will therefore need to submit a new Environment Act Proposal. Some of…