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  • Les écoles franco-ontariennes elles aussi débrayent : Les enjeux pour ces écoles

    Conseil scolaire Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 4 cours en ligne) Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 2 cours en ligne) Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) 64 62 Conseil scolaire Viamonde 39 38 CSC MonAvenir 61 59 CSC Providence 35 34 CSD catholique…

  • February 2007: “More Time For Daddy”

    Quebec leads the way with its new parental leave policy Leave related to the birth or adoption of a child includes maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave. In Canada, there was a change in parental leave in 2001, which basically extended the leave from six months to approximately one…

  • Rendering of Sen̓áḵw project in Kitsilano. Credit: http://www.senakw.com

    Lessons from the Squamish Nation’s ambitious new rental housing plan

    As we face a severe housing crisis in Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is poised to add 6,000 new homes—mostly market rental housing—to its 11 acre reserve lands in Kitsilano. This will create a major new ongoing revenue stream for the Nation, while providing rental homes to help ease Vancouver’s ultra-low…

  • High CEO pay shatters previous records, now 227 times more than average worker pay

    C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from…

  • Fast Facts: Seeking a just recovery from COVID-19

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 6, 2021 COVID-19 has been a fundamental shock to households, communities and countries globally. Manitoba, like other jurisdictions, faces significant public health, economic and social challenges. While vaccines may get the public health crisis under control in the coming year, the social…

  • October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence

    Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence” (BMD) weapons program. Unfortunately, BMD is still very much alive and well and thriving in Canada. In fact, Canada has been complicit in BMD for…

  • Love and spreadsheets

    One of the most important revelations of my life came to me not when I was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. (From this I have learned one thing: cancer sucks.) No, revelation came to me in a moment, two decades ago, when I had backed myself into a very…

  • Rosenbluth Lecture 2021: Peter Victor, Slower by Design, not Disaster

    The Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture was held virtually in February. The lecture is in honour of Gideon Rosenbluth, who was an esteemed professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office.  As a young person, Peter Victor looked at the now-iconic,…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Open letter: Canada must support global access to COVID-19 vaccines at the WTO

    This letter was sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 10, 2021.  Dear Prime Minister, Since the beginning of the pandemic, world leaders have repeatedly spoken of the need for global solidarity to get us all through this once-in-a-century health crisis. You were among the first to call for…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Civil society groups urge Canada to support global access to COVID-19 vaccine at WTO

    OTTAWA – As governments around the world prepare for World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings on intellectual property rights March 10-11, civil society groups are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to support a landmark waiver that would help boost global access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and PPE. In a letter sent…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Burden of Concern

    The Healthy Environment, Healthy Neighbourhood Project Download 8.23 MB 196 pages The HEHN project documented first-hand experiences of Winnipeg residents in inner city and mature neighbourhoods who live near industrial and contaminated sites, most notably in Point Douglas and St. Boniface, in Winnipeg, 2023.

  • Brandon University left behind in budget 2023

    As the old adage goes, budgets are not only a financial blueprint for a government’s plan but also demonstrate their choices and values. Manitoba’s universities have been under attack by the Manitoba Government. Since the 2017 budget, funding below the rate of inflation has resulted in a substantial revenue shortfall.…