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  • OnPolicy Crossword Answers

    In our latest issue of OnPolicy, we included a crossword puzzle on the theme of Ontario’s working poor. Get the answers here! Attachments CCPA ON OnPolicy Crossword answers

  • UNSPUN: Communities leading the way need provincial support

    The province has invested widely in community development and “place-based” approaches to renewal and poverty reduction, with many positive results. Place-based approaches such as these are now being adopted in communities across the country as research shows that residents overwhelmed by poverty need complementary supports and resources close to home.…

  • Fast Facts: Province must extend eviction moratorium

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 16, 2020 Thousands of low income renters in the private market impacted by COVID-19 could face eviction in just two weeks. Last week the Province of Manitoba issued a press release stating the moratorium on non-payment of rent during COVID is ending…

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    Why austerity is a problem for just transition and climate action

    Last year we launched the Corporate Mapping Project, which is investigating the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry in Western Canada. One of the first things we did was hold a series of community meetings with environmental, Indigenous and labour groups to discuss the project. We did this…

  • Opting Out of Union Dues

    Murray Mandryk’s excellent column today saves me the trouble of writing a lengthy blog post on the Saskatchewan government’s recent musings about labour legislation. From an economic perspective, it’s worth noting that enabling unionized workers to opt out of paying union dues would create a classic free-rider problem. Indeed, Wikipedia’s article on this topic uses collective…

  • Ignatieff and Asbestos

    Liberals need to make anti-asbestos stand official policy With the federal Liberals now semi- officially supporting the banning of Canadian asbestos exports, a political debate that had been suppressed for over 20 years is truly beginning. So long as the Bloc, the Conservatives and the Liberals supported this lethal industry,…

  • The meaning of the third of November to the Negro

    Photo credit: Lorie Shall, Flickr Creative Commons I started writing this column on September 18 as my social media feed filled with posts about National Black Voter Day, marking 50 days until the U.S. presidential election on November 3. Launched this year by the National Urban League, Black Entertainment Television…

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    BC’s natural gas giveaway: Production soars, revenues plummet

    Not long ago, BC received huge annual royalty revenues from its growing natural gas sector. The revenues were often billed as paying for essential public services like health care and education, and were appealing politically as they meant governments did not have to raise taxes to do so. The provincial…

  • New federal sickness benefit falls short

    Workers in Canada will have access to a federal paid sick leave benefit, but it doesn’t go far enough. The new Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit applies to people unable to work because they have or may have COVID-19 or must self-isolate for reasons related to COVID. It also applies to…

  • 2.7 million Canadians will be worse off when CERB ends

    OTTAWA — Three-quarters of Canadians—2.7 million people—who are receiving the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) will be worse off when the benefit ends on September 27, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. New analysis by senior economist David Macdonald shows that those Canadians currently receiving CERB will get, on…

  • Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)

    Time to sow seeds of a better world, says Vandana Shiva British colonial rule in India led to the killing of 200 million Indians and, with this holocaust, the country was forced into the Western capitalist system. Capitalism and imperialism created an abyss of poverty in India which continues today…

  • British Columbians approve of province’s COVID-19 response & want more equitable, sustainable economy post recovery—regardless of party affiliation

    The coronavirus pandemic has put governments and societies around the world to the test as they confront what is both a public health and economic crisis—one that clearly is not going away anytime soon. BC has fared well to date in containing the spread of the virus, and stands out…