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  • Fast Facts: Manitoba Ranked Highest for Indigenous Child Poverty

    Children need to feel and see they are important members of their communities and treated as such. A new study out Tuesday finds that Manitoba has the highest number of on-reserve First Nations children in poverty in the country at 76 per cent and the highest indigenous children in poverty…

  • Canada puts intellectual property rights above access to medicines in developing countries

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Canada has failed in its humanitarian duty to protect the human right to health in the form of safe and low cost medicines for the people in developing countries, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Canadian reports have…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Time to rethink the approval process for fossil fuel industry developments in BC’s northeast

    When the provincial government created the Oil and Gas Commission in 1998, it did much more than open a “one stop shop” for speedy oil and gas industry approvals; it also set British Columbia on a collision course with First Nations. The consequences of that collision course are more apparent…

  • April 2008: First Nations Fight to Protect Their Land

    Algonquins and settler allies block proposed uranium mining A mining exploration company’s government-supported attempt to drill for uranium on First Nations land is finally beginning to create outrage far beyond the quiet corner of Eastern Ontario where it began over a year ago. On February 15, a Kingston judge’s draconian…

  • Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity

    After 2010, which was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others,…

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    Climate change and energy issues in the 2017 BC election platforms

    From the fracking fields and Site C dam in BC’s northeast to an LNG terminal and Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker expansion in the southwest, energy issues should figure prominently in BC’s 2017 election campaign. Climate change, the result of all that pollution from dirty energy development here and elsewhere,…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Economic security, democratic rights and the secret ballot

    Democracy. The word carries a deep meaning for citizens of nations rooted in western democratic traditions. The full measure of the word far exceeds the individual rights it implies. For Canadians, it is viscerally connected to the foundations of our history. The word embodies the weight of sacrifices made by…

  • Oil profits, pipelines and the human cost of regulatory capture

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  • Corporate Mapping Project

    An environmental mess: BC government needs to bring gas industry and regulator under tighter control

    Few environmental messes inherited by the new B.C. government rival the unregulated free-for-all that has unfolded in the province’s northeast where companies that frack for natural gas have built nearly 60 unlicensed dams. Not only do some of those dams show distressing signs of failing, but the companies that built…

  • Labour Matters

    Labour Left Out

    Canada’s Failure to Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right Download 1.47 MB152 pages In Labour Left Out, Roy Adams reports on his research into the failure of Canadian governments to protect and promote the collective bargaining rights of both unionized and non-unionized workers in this country. Far from honouring…

  • What happened to the National Housing Strategy?

    Launched in 2017, the National Housing Strategy (NHS) was billed as a major re-engagement by the federal government on affordable housing after more than two decades on the sidelines. Starting with a headline commitment of $40 billion when first announced and supplemented in subsequent budgets, the NHS is now ostensibly…