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While world leaders are increasingly saying out loud that the postwar liberal world order is dead, the ruling classes in the Global North have an answer for what will come to replace it: fascism. Will they be able to implement their vision?
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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…
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Oil profits, pipelines and the human cost of regulatory capture
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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…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2015, Volume 18, Number 1 Download 1.26 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Time for BC to start preparing for climate migration: A question of justice by Stephanie Dickson, Sophie Webber and Tim Takaro Why BC needs a human rights commission with articles by Devyn Cousineau, Gwen Brodsky and Shelagh Day It’s…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fast Facts: Canada’s Long-Term Care Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has in less than four months spread throughout the globe and altered both the daily lives of citizens and the economy of many countries, including Canada. Media reports through all platforms cover COVID-19 extensively, in fact there is not much else in the news these days. While…
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Canada 150: Reconciling who we are with who we want to be
We all want to feel good about what Canada stands for. From progress on LGBTQ rights, to communities coming together to support new immigrants, to modest steps toward reconciliation, there are reasons to be proud of how far we’ve come in 2017. But are we prepared to move beyond pride—to…
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Work Life: Manitoba’s Proactive Enforcement of Temporary Foreign Worker’s Rights is a model for Canada
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) has become a hot potato for the federal government, which is frantically attempting to quell widespread outrage sparked by revelations of Canadians fired to be replaced by cheaper, more vulnerable and thus more compliant migrants, abusive working conditions, illegal fees charged to foreign job-seekers,…
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The Monitor, March/April 2016
Reconciliation Download 6.55 MB The Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued an interim report and 94 “calls to action” in June 2015. The Indian Residential Schools Program was, it declared, part of a Canadian policy to “eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation,…
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