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  • Election 2011 UNSPUN: Winnipeg’s Inner City and North End Neighbourhoods

    Lessons from Ten Years of Research The inner city suddenly becomes important to politicians during elections. Some political parties choose to focus solely on crime and fear. The approach they take is punitive, shaped, we believe, from a lack of understanding of how complex challenges really are. Others have a…

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    This Labour Day, fruit pickers in BC may have been denied minimum wage

    While many British Columbians and visitors may have enjoyed late summer produce like apples, peaches and plums this Labour Day weekend, the workers who pick these crops generally do not receive statutory holiday pay and many work for less than minimum wage. The laws that govern conditions for agricultural workers…

  • Fast Facts: Community Development Manitoba – style

    For fashion trends the world looks to Milan; Copenhagen has become synonymous with urban planning; but for community development, Manitoba is increasingly the source for inspiration and cutting edge policy. Manitoba’s home-grown approach to community development is being studied by other cities looking for ways to deal with the complex…

  • Stop tinkering and build an Early Learning and Child Care system: CCPA-NS

    Current patchwork, market-based approach is failing province and families CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX – Nova Sco­tia’s market-based, patchwork approach to Early Learning and Child Care is not working for families is the central message in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS)’s submission to the…

  • October 2008: Poverty Amidst Plenty

    Why isn’t inequality a key issue in the latest election? This column is being written in the middle of a federal election campaign, the outcome of which most readers will know by the time they see it. Not being prescient, I can only hope, as I write in ignorance of…

  • Open letter: Recommendations for Building an Early Learning and Child Care System in Nova Scotia

    Dear Honourable Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development, and Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Families, Children and Social Development; We understand that negotiations are underway for a bilateral agreement between the Nova Scotia government and the federal government concerning the child care funding announced…

  • Burning issues for Metro Vancouver

    The front page story of today’s Vancouver Sun takes on Metro Vancouver’s waste incineration facility in Burnaby. The Fraser Valley Regional District has been strongly opposed to a new proposed incinerator planned by Metro, and likewise has expressed its concerns about air quality in regards to the Burnaby facility. Its…

  • Atlantica concept must be put on map for public discussion

    I suspect that few Atlantic Canadians would argue against the potential benefits of improving trade ties with our New England neighbours. So the controversy surrounding proposals for an “Atlantica” trade zone spanning Atlantic Canada and northern New England may come as a surprise. However, a study released last week by…

  • Need to Rebalance the Nova Scotia Tax System for the Greater Good

    HALIFAX— If Nova Scotia hopes to move forward, the current tax system must change. Cuts to corporate taxes and income taxes for the highest earners and increasing reliance on consumption taxes will not help the majority of Nova Scotians, nor will they help us to build a province that is…

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    Great news for human rights in BC!

    On November 27, sixteen years after the previous government abolished it, the BC government passed legislation to bring back the BC Human Rights Commission. Human rights commissions play a vital role in promoting, defending and protecting human rights. Commissions across the country work to prevent abuses by building awareness of…

  • Disparate Groups Unite to Oppose Transit Pass Tax Credit

    Can you identify a tax policy that is so ineffective, wasteful, inequitable, and cumbersome that political parties, think-tanks, and non-profit organizations across the political spectrum have spoken out against it? This is a tax policy so universally maligned that opposition to it has brought the strangest of bedfellows to snuggle…

  • The Oil Industry’s Dilbit Cover-Up

    Tar sands bitumen spills harder and costlier to clean up It’s amazing to watch the lengths to which Enbridge and the oil industry will go in pretending that tar sands diluted bitumen (dilbit) is no different from conventional oil. On Aug. 26, the Canadian Press reported that the Northern Gateway…