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    Massive public investment, not austerity, is the answer

    A depression is still around the corner if the Canadian government does not continue to radically intervene in the economy. We have all encountered the dark outlines of the crisis facing us by now. Everywhere there are warnings of mass unemployment unseen in decades, already vulnerable workers—young, racialized, women—hit hardest,…

  • Time to scale up non-market housing in BC

    Time to scale up: next steps for non-market housing in BC

    Despite some positive policy moves, BC is still not meeting the demands of the housing crisis. We need more non-market housing in BC now.

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    Making Women Count

    Resetting Normal Report

    Women, Decent Work and Canada’s Fractured Care Economy Download 3.43 MB42 pages An historic downturn in women’s employment, compounded by uncertainty over the capacity of the fragile and fragmented childcare sector to fully reopen, is shaping up as a potential disaster for women’s economic security. Recovery planning provides an opportunity…

  • Budget 2017: death by 1,000 cuts

    Social Policy Lowlights Despite pundits’ claims that “its not as bad as it could be” there are a myriad of program cuts and tax cuts in this budget. As the weeks go by more impacts will invariably be felt in our community. Yet poverty and social inequality continue to grow…

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    As wood pellet exports to Japan surge, BC’s primary forests feel the strain

    In the land of the rising sun, the light of a setting sun glints so brightly on the shiny metal piping of Renova’s Ishinomaki Hibarino power plant that you have to shield your eyes. Located near the city of Sendai, north of Tokyo, the new thermal electricity plant is one…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: The Living Wage

    An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour, 55 per cent of minimum wage earners in Manitoba are adults twenty years and older; 51 per cent of minimum-wage earners work for companies with…

  • Hard on Families, Light on Crime: Some Thoughts on the Throne Speech

    The Throne Speech had a lot to say about Canadian families. The Government promised to make “the right choices” for Canadian families. Just like the choices it has made so far. The Government promised safety and security for Canadian families. Not to mention lower cable bills. How do those promises…

  • Fast Facts: Don’t Cut Neighourhoods Alive!

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 12, 2016 The provincial government has halted funding for Neighbourhoods Alive! This is a serious mistake. Neighbourhoods Alive! (NA) is a provincial government program that funds community development initiatives  in thirteen low-income urban areas in Manitoba, including six in Winnipeg’s inner city.…

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    Leaked data reveals new threat to BC’s old growth forests

    BREAKING: officials in the Ministry of Forests have been working on a map that radically departs from the recommendations of a panel appointed by the provincial government to advise it on how to protect British Columbia’s imperiled old growth forests.

  • 28 years of waiting for safer construction sites

    Anniversary of Bentall Tower deaths highlights need for worker involvement in safety management Twenty-eight years ago today, four construction workers plunged to their deaths when the flyform panel they were working on fell from the 36th floor of the Bentall Tower IV in downtown Vancouver. Every year, construction workers, industry…

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    The Missing Piece in Health and Education

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 1, 2023 Although recent media coverage of our healthcare and education problems here in Manitoba has been very good and quite wide-ranging, one particularly important piece of the puzzle has been consistently missing. That missing piece is the social determinants of health.…

  • Tax the rich

    Robust wealth tax could raise $363B over 10 years

    Amid a rise in extreme inequality, the idea of an annual tax on the wealth of the super-rich has risen to prominence in recent years in many countries. New analysis shows that a robust wealth tax in Canada—one that goes further than those currently on the table in the federal…