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  • Muslim family praying at the table

    Beyond “Happy Holidays!”: it’s time to support Canada’s increasing religious diversity

    Canada’s religious demographics have changed in the last 20 years. This is not being reflected in all facets of the structural fabric of society, particularly in the context of work and holidays.

  • BC NDP-Green agreement commits to Indigenous consent

    In their power-sharing agreement, the BC New Democrat and Green parties commit to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 Tsilhqot’in decision, calling the documents “foundational” to their shared policy agenda. Central to both is Indigenous peoples’ right to free,…

  • What’s in a Scan?

    How well are consumers informed about the benefits and harms related to screening technology (CT and PET scans) in Canada? Download 1.25 MB48 pages Attachments Les avantages et les risques de la scintigraphie? – Sommaire To Screen or Not to Screen, that is the Question (2-page consumer’s guide)

  • Public being misled by marketing of medical scans, new research reveals

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system. The study, entitled What’s in a Scan? was published today by the Canadian…

  • Cheap Power for Jobs (Except it Ain’t Cheap)

    It has a nice political ring to it — “power for jobs”. That is what Glen Clark wanted to do with the Columbia River Treaty power that was returned to the province in the late 1990’s. And that is what Vaughn Palmer argues B.C. should do today with the hydro…

  • Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ

    Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet the needs of local Aboriginal youth. The public funding for, and presence of this building on a key corner, continues to anger many in the…

  • The Lac-Mégantic oil train catastrophe eight years later: Justice still denied

    Forty-seven people died that night—their hopes and dreams obliterated, future wiped out.

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Offshore oil not the path to wealth or jobs

    Environmental risks not the only reason to keep the moratorium CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that offshore oil and gas development off BC’s coast will not bring the hoped for levels of wealth or job…

  • How (and how much) doctors are paid: why it matters

    How we pay doctors through our public health system is an important issue that receives little public scrutiny, despite the fact that physician compensation represents a significant share of the provincial budget and has been among the fastest-growing health care costs in recent years. A very useful analysis was conducted…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Austerity, the economy and COVID-19…Manitoba Government creating, not solving problems

    First published CBC online April 21, 2020 COVID-19 has upended communities and economies across the globe.  Canadian political leaders have taken unprecedented steps to slow the spread of COVID-19, including the closure of non-essential businesses, schools and universities. These measures, while necessary, have led to a severe drop in economic…

  • L’annulation des loyers : un débat incontournable

    Face à la dette locative, quelle sera la réponse des pouvoirs publics ? C’est un débat que nous devons engager dès maintenant. Au cours des dernières semaines, l’impact économique de la COVID-19 a attiré presque autant d’attention que la pandémie elle-même. Le gouvernement fédéral et les gouvernements provinciaux ont agi…

  • Nearly 200 arrests and counting

    Image: Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons) The build started with a single West Coast cedar tree. In the early hours of March 10, against the backdrop of forest-covered Burnaby Mountain on the shores of B.C.’s Burrard Inlet, volunteers carried in wood planks and cement corner stones and set to work.…