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The first comprehensive review of BC’s Labour Code in over a quarter of a century has resulted in changes to the law to strengthen protections and collective bargaining rights for workers. In addition to requiring a review of the Code every five years, the changes will: Strengthen successorship rights for workers…
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The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations assist resettling refugees in finding and maintaining housing, which…
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CPRN: RIP – the loss of an independent voice
There was sad news yesterday for those of us who are policy wonks and for anyone else who pays serious attention to public issues in Canada. After 15 years of public policy research the Canadian Policy Research Network is closing its doors. The organization’s president, Dr. Sharon Manson Singer announced…
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For climate’s sake, Canada Pension Plan needs to take a serious look at its investments
The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) manages the pensions of 20 million Canadians. In a recent Corporate Mapping Project report, we found that the CPP has increased the number of shares it owns in fossil fuel companies since Canada signed the Paris Agreement five years ago. The CPP’s total fossil fuel…
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Connecting Aborignal people to ‘good’ jobs
Manitoba has among the highest Aboriginal populations in Canada and it is growing at a faster rate than the non-Aboriginal population. Fifteen percent of Manitoban’s and 10 percent of Winnipeggers identify as Aboriginal. While the majority of Aboriginal people are fully engaged in employment and/or education pursuits, statistics tell us…
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Poverty Amid Plenty
A Slideshow About Welfare in BC https://vimeo.com/3593782 This is the first chapter from a narrated video slideshow about British Columbia’s welfare system. View the rest of the slideshow here: http://vimeo.com/channels/welfare. Welfare (or income assistance) is the program of last resort for people who find themselves without work, or who are…
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The politics of stalling
What do same-sex marriage and the federal budget have in common? We can’t figure it out either, but both issues are being sucked into the vortex of high parliamentary drama. Political parties (even renegade individuals within political parties) are exploiting both issues to indulge their political grandstanding. Threats are being…
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Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new leader – stands out as a case in point: it is carefully designed to survive a non-confidence vote. It extends a few olive branches to…
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11 steps toward a more just society for Budgets ‘22 and beyond
As a fourth wave of COVID-19 ramps up, the impact of the pandemic on the economy, policymaking and budgets has not gone away. More broadly, government responses to the pandemic at both the national and provincial levels have generally been seen as a success. Much like in WWII, this appears…
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Revised federal budget is affordable and should be passed: economists
While not perfect, revised budget is “substantial improvement” over previous budgets READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – The revised federal budget is affordable and should be passed in the House of Commons, Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) economists said in an assessment released today. Saying that the revised budget, which…
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2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
End It Now Download 1.07 MB28 pages Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the House of Commons’ 1989 pledge to end child poverty by the year 2000. This year’s report—now 15 years after the pledge deadline—takes an in-depth…
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Federal Budget 2013: Stubbornness and hidden secrets
Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the…
