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Women to Harper: We won’t be silent
TORONTO – Prominent Canadian women have a message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: they refuse to be silenced. The women – feminists, activists,,academics, economists, and former politicians – contributed to a new anthology by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). “Senator Nancy Ruth unleashed a firestorm last spring when…
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Speaking Truth to Power
A reader on Canadian women’s inequality Download 166.64 KB126 pages Contributors: Pat Armstrong * Sheila Copps * Eve-Lyne Couturier * Shelagh Day * Jane Doe * Martha Friendly * Josephine Grey * Michele Landsberg * Heather Mallick * Alexa McDonough * Chi Nguyen * Lana Payne * Shannon Phillips *…
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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…
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Fast Facts: Should Manitobans trust nuclear burial plans?
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 23, 2018 There was a time when a plan to bury highly radioactive materials 500m from a river that provides drinking water and flows into Lake Winnipeg, would have attracted a fair bit of attention in Manitoba. Maybe even a mild uproar.…
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Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking methane—a finding that highlights why a public inquiry into oil and gas industry fracking operations is needed. The Commission published the December 2013 report on its website on…
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84 doctors, health experts & economists across Canada call on BC government to show national leadership with 10 days paid sick leave
VANCOUVER—Eighty four signatories to an open letter published today say they want the BC government to show national leadership because its actions will set the bar for other provinces and territories at a time when the right to paid sick leave is more important than ever. The signatories include ER…
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Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times
A recent landmark investigation by BC’s Ombudsperson highlighted the serious problems seniors experience in accessing affordable high-quality home and community-based services (such as residential care, home nursing and home support). At the same time, BC continues to grapple with overcrowded hospitals and long waitlists for emergency care and surgeries. Taken…
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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…
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Housing platforms and platitudes in the 2018 Vancouver election
It should be no surprise that Vancouver’s growing housing affordability crisis is the top issue going into the election. All candidates are in favour of affordable housing, of course. Sorting out the chatter from concrete plans, however, can be difficult—not least because of the way Vancouver’s municipal politics has fractured…
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Des soins qui comptent, combien ça coûte?
Le système de soins de longue durée nécessite 1,8 milliard de dollars pour atteindre des niveaux d’effectifs sécuritaires en personnel : rapport TORONTO— Dans la tourmente, le système de soins de longue durée de l’Ontario nécessite un investissement supplémentaire de 1,8 milliard de dollars par an pour atteindre les niveaux…
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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…
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Time to push back against short-term rentals to help balance Vancouver’s rental market
COVID-19 has decimated tourism and business travel, posing huge costs onto workers in those industries, but a fascinating side effect has been a more balanced rental market for Vancouver’s long-term renters. Asking rents for vacated units in Vancouver fell by 9 per cent in April compared to a year earlier,…
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