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    Making Women Count

    Unfinished Business

    A Parallel Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Download 1.19 MB 163 pages This study provides an assessment of Canada’s progress in meeting the goals for gender equality set out in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Adopted unanimously by 189 countries including…

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    Historic gains in Ontario workers’ rights: What BC can learn

    In light of the growth and prevalence of precarious employment and the lack of decent conditions of employment for vulnerable workers, labour advocates and unions in Ontario campaigned for improvements to employment and labour relations laws. As a result of their campaign, in February 2015, Ontario’s provincial government established an…

  • October 2004: Fair Trade vs. Free Trade

    Principles of fair trade based on economic justice, human rights While the principles of “fair trade” have been around for a long time, and are primarily based on ideas of human rights and economic justice, the fair trade movement is a relatively recent development. To a large degree, it is…

  • Think Upstream

    No human should be homeless

    “I realized was that providing healthcare and managing people’s medical condition, while important, failed to address some of the underlying challenges that were impacting their health.” “Coming out of my, I guess, career as a homeless addict, I was just trying to survive. I was desperate enough, and I was…

  • Ce qu’il reste de l’université publique

    Les universités québécoises sont en crise, et ce, depuis longtemps. Jamais, dans notre histoire récente, n’avons-nous pu leur donner une orientation claire. Voulons-nous des universités pour participer à l’éducation de notre peuple? Pour former à l’esprit critique? Pour diplômer massivement des étudiant·e·s? Pour répondre aux besoins du marché du travail?…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Ben Parfitt at the Site C Megadam Town Hall

  • Injured workers with chronic pain: the serious human costs of the WorkSafeBC system

    I have been a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation for over 30 years. A significant portion of my practice involves injured workers who have developed chronic pain and have been denied compensation by WorkSafeBC (WCB). Workers with injuries that heal in weeks or a few months are usually treated…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada at risk of lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

  • A Very Canadian Coup

    The top 10 ways that Canada aided the 2004 coup in Haiti and helped subject Haitians to a brutal reign of terror Things went from bad to worse after Canada’s Liberal government helped plan and carry out the 2004 regime change in Haiti that illegally ousted President Aristide’s democratically-elected government.…

  • End the apartment ban

    It’s a housing crisis. Why are cities like Vancouver still banning apartments in most areas?

    Vancouver is the epicentre of BC’s housing crisis and shortage. So why does the city still effectively ban new apartment buildings on most of its residential land, reserving it exclusively for low-density housing? 

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    Making Women Count

    Progress on Women’s Rights: Missing in Action

    A Shadow Report on Canada’s Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Download 708.78 KB 88 pages This report reviews Canada’s implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and finds that while progress has been made in access to edu­cation, it also highlights the areas where…

  • Calls for Montebello inquiry justified

    What are we to make of the events at the recent summit in Montebello, Que.? The series of summits was initiated by U.S. President George W. Bush to promote his North American Security and Prosperity Partnership agenda to the Canadian prime minister and the president of Mexico. The meetings included…