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  • Labour Matters

    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…

  • 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…

  • Labour Matters

    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,…

  • 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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    A paradox in COVID-19 pandemic recovery: Increased precarity of women hotel workers in British Columbia

    REPORT: While BC’s accommodations and food services sector (AFS) received over a billion dollars in government COVID-19 subsidies, women workers—predominantly racialized and immigrants—either lost their employment or had hours and income significantly reduced.

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada is wrong to think we need a free trade deal with Mercosur

    Prime Minister Trudeau and Brazilian President Michel Temer in July 2017. I was invited to appear before a parliamentary trade committee last week on behalf of the CCPA to discuss a possible Canadian free trade agreement (FTA) with the Mercosur countries. I must say that, while CCPA is always happy…

  • Rights-Based Legal Aid

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  • An unauthorized Progress Energy dam where millions of gallons of freshwater was found impounded in early April. It is among “dozens" of unpermitted dams spread across northern BC, a CCPA investigation has found.

    A Dam Big Problem: Regulatory breakdown as fracking companies in BC’s northeast build dozens of unauthorized dams

    A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the BC government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern BC to trap hundreds of millions of gallons of water used in its controversial fracking operations. The 16 dams are among “dozens” that have been built by…

  • Fast Facts: Wealth Care vs Health Care

    The debate around the private financing of Canada’s health care system has recently been revived as one of a series of video shorts on human rights issues in Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum of Human Rights. It discusses a Supreme Court hearing in which Quebec’s prohibition on private insurance to cover procedures…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Stella’s Strike – It’s About Fairness

    The strike at Stella’s Restaurant on Sherbrook St. in Winnipeg places the verse of the old labour song, “Which side are you on,” before each of us. The Stella’s workers would rather be on the job, but their desire for fairness sees them on the picket line. In late 2018,…

  • Never free, never cleared

    Canada’s ongoing terror obsession Two Canadian judicial decisions released in late May remind us that national security is incompatible with democracy: the former almost always trumps the latter. When doubts are raised about the fragility of democratic rights, as they were in the cases of Ottawa residents Mohamed Harkat and…

  • The Monitor, May/June 2022

    Hatred unmasked: Tracking the rise of right-wing extremism in Canada Download 4.99 MB Issue highlights: The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well. Stacy Lee Kong’s examines the role that wellness influencers like Oh She Glows’ Angela Liddon play in funneling white women into right-wing radicalization. Uprooting the racism in our ranks. Members…