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  • Ontario vs. Toronto: Democracy on trial

    Not even three full months into his reign as Ontario premier, the battle lines between Doug Ford and the City of Toronto have been drawn and democracy is on trial.Premier Ford threw Toronto’s October 22nd municipal election campaign into chaos this summer by arbitrarily cutting the number of seats almost…

  • Human (Anti) Nature

    Why do we ignore scientists’ warnings of ecological disaster? On the front page of one its issues last fall, Maclean’s displayed the visage of Canada’s pre-eminent environmentalist, David Suzuki. It bannered in large capital letters a quote attributed to Suzuki that “ENVIRONMENTALISM HAS FAILED,” with a subhead claiming, “David Suzuki…

  • Consumer rights and responsibilities in the age of climate change and big data

    I’ll be attending the Consumers 150 conference in Ottawa this week, which is co-organized by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Option consommateurs, Consumers Council of Canada and Union des consommateurs. The event is billed as a chance to analyze today’s high-profile consumer rights issues—national pharmacare, the sharing economy, climate change…

  • Legislated Paid Sick Leave – A Historic Moment for Worker Rights

    The BC government will implement the right for all employees to have a minimum number of employer-paid sick days on January 1, 2022. BC will become just the third province in Canada to do so—and has an opportunity to make history by bringing in the strongest, most well-designed program in the country. Last…

  • Closeup of stressed teenage girl talking to mental health therapist in session

    A Critical Assessment of Virtual Mental Health Care for Rural Nova Scotians

    Download 1.17 MB8 pages The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating impacts on mental health and healthcare systems across Nova Scotia and the country. While demand for mental health services escalated in response to the pandemic, many in-person services were shut down (MacIvor 2021; government of Nova Scotia 2022b; Pulok et…

  • Preventing discrimination before it occurs

    The human rights process starts with the filing of a complaint of discrimination. In BC, the complaint is filed with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. Filing an effective complaint requires a good deal of time and effort. It can be hard to devote that time and effort if, for example,…

  • From disenfranchised to revitalized: Ten proposals to set our forests and BC’s rural communities on a new course

    Fort Nelson and Merritt lie at two geographical extremes, the former perched in the northeast corner near some of British Columbia’s biggest natural gas plays, the latter located deep in the province’s southwest, near rolling dry hills that are home to BC’s biggest ranches. It takes nearly 15 hours by…

  • The Rise and Fall of Economic and Social Rights

    What’s Next? Download 110.18 KB8 pages He has committed his life to the advancement of human rights. He’s watched Canada move from a “sharing and caring” society to the “new barbarism.”  Now Ed Broadbent comes out swinging.  In this article based on his address to the Congress of the Canadian…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights

    Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages.  It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of knock-on effects, for other workers as well).  As of April 2011, for example, the 200,000 Manitoba workers covered by collective agreements earned an average hourly…

  • Waning transparency in Canada: Is access to information broken?

    At the federal, provincial and even the local level, there was a time when governments in Canada seemed to think transparency about their operations was a pretty good idea. Not anymore. At the federal level, the issue of transparency through access to information has even been sent to the United…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2019

    The Surveillance Economy Download 4.51 MB Google (Alphabet), Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. They are among the world’s most valuable and most trusted companies, but increasingly the most scrutinized for their data-hoarding practices, monopolist tendencies, poor treatment of workers and willingness to bend or even break privacy laws in the pursuit…

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    Corporate Mapping Project

    Un nouveau rapport met en lumière l’état de l’industrie des combustibles fossiles dans l’Est du Canada – une région négligée dans les débats sur les politiques énergétiques

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, 6 juin 2023]:  Bien que l’Est du Canada soit fortement investi dans la production pétrolière et gazière, cette région est souvent omise des discussions sur la politique énergétique, qui s’axe surtout sur les provinces de l’Ouest. Un nouveau rapport fait l’état des lieux…