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    Canada is targeting Indigenous rights under the banner of the U.S. trade war

    New pieces of legislation by different levels of government seek to streamline industrial mega-projects on Indigenous land, regardless of consultation

    The same party might be in power, but it’s a new era for federal politics in Canada—particularly when it comes to Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. The halls of power no longer echo with speeches in support of Indigenous rights and reconcilliation. Neither do First Nations leaders present headdresses to…

  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box of Timbits and a Double-Double at the Tim Hortons’ drive thru.  In the space of just hours on a single day in June 2020, the…

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    The emotional discourses of parental rights: Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act

    Our Schools/Our Selves, Summer/Fall 2025

    Across the globe, governments are passing anti-LGBTQ+ curriculum laws that curtail queer and gender-inclusive education initiatives, prohibit trans students’ inclusion in sports, and require the use of bathrooms according to sex assigned at birth. Tying these policies together is a common rhetorical theme of “parental rights” that seeks to secure…

  • Quebec is proposing to gut tenants’ rights with a new law

    Bill 31 would remove some significant rights from tenants, and hand over more discretionary power to landlords

    Bill 31 would remove some significant rights from tenants, and hand over more discretionary power to landlords

  • Saskatchewan government speaks in riddles when it comes to treaty rights

    Despite celebrations of treaties, Saskatchewan doesn't do much to respect them. With prairie separatism on the rise, that's a real problem.

    The Saskatchewan government loves to celebrate treaties. 

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    Great news for human rights in BC!

    On November 27, sixteen years after the previous government abolished it, the BC government passed legislation to bring back the BC Human Rights Commission. Human rights commissions play a vital role in promoting, defending and protecting human rights. Commissions across the country work to prevent abuses by building awareness of…

  • Improving primary health care access: Lessons from Canada and Scotland

    It’s the foundation of the health care system, but the struggle to access primary care across Canada has become acute

  • Lifting the Bottom, Building a Fair Economy for All Workers in Nova Scotia

    The Nova Scotia government has announced that employers will have to pay minimum wage workers 50 cents more per hour in 2026, with a 25-cent increase effective April 1 and another 25-cent increase in October. The government is following the legislated requirement and recommendation of the Minimum Wage Review Committee…

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    Education Project

    A history of the “parental rights movement(s)”

    A backgrounder on history of the movement that right-wingers are championing to influence education policy and beyond

    The practice of raising and educating children, at a moment of seismic social, economic, and political change, has been elevated to new levels of public scrutiny. Political pundits, media personalities, op-ed columnists, school boards, parent-interest groups, and even legislatures have been consumed by debates that (on the surface) concern best…

  • Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites

    For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…

  • What cuts to insect scientists tell us about federal austerity in Canada

    The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process

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    Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?

    BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems.  In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…