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Beyond “Happy Holidays!”: it’s time to support Canada’s increasing religious diversity
Canada’s religious demographics have changed in the last 20 years. This is not being reflected in all facets of the structural fabric of society, particularly in the context of work and holidays.
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Canada’s Ongoing Involvement in Dirty Wars
Like the U.S., Canada is “outsourcing” warfare in Afghanistan The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) published its latest of many reports last February, indicating that the United States has increasingly relied on Special Operations Forces to project force abroad throughout the Global War on Terror. The latest CRS report predicts…
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TPP delivers unjustified benefits to foreign investors at public expense: study
OTTAWA—The expanded rights granted to foreign investors in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) carry major risks for voters and taxpayers in TPP countries, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study, by international investment treaty expert Gus Van Harten, examines the special privileges given to…
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Thousands of users risk losing access to water as application deadline looms: government must act swiftly to avoid crisis
VANCOUVER – Thousands of non-domestic groundwater users across BC risk losing their historic water rights if they fail to apply for licences before a fast-approaching deadline, warn two former senior provincial government employees. The warning comes as new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that since the…
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Killer Pensions
Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries In the microcosm of our daily lives, many Canadians make politically-conscious choices about what to buy. Whether it’s drinking fair trade tea or coffee, using eco-friendly cleaning products, eating locally-produced food, avoiding clothes made in sweatshops, or refusing to buy war-toys…
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The Weapons Makers On Display
Canada’s war industries flog their wares at big arms bazaar The glittering opulence and sheer pageantry of the Middle East’s largest arms bazaar held recently in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, was like an alchemist’s magic, transforming the dross display of the death-bestowing technologies into a grand…
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Fast Facts: Should Manitobans trust nuclear burial plans?
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 23, 2018 There was a time when a plan to bury highly radioactive materials 500m from a river that provides drinking water and flows into Lake Winnipeg, would have attracted a fair bit of attention in Manitoba. Maybe even a mild uproar.…
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A Step Back
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Wuskwatim Project CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The agreement between the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Manitoba Hydro over the development of a 200-megawatt dam and transmission line in Northern Manitoba is of uncertain financial value and based on the risk assumed by…
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BC Budget 2021 will be tabled on April 20th, in the middle of the COVID-19 third wave. It is an opportunity for the new provincial government to not only support people and businesses through this phase of the pandemic—but also to shape a transition to a more resilient, inclusive and…
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Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking methane—a finding that highlights why a public inquiry into oil and gas industry fracking operations is needed. The Commission published the December 2013 report on its website on…
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Treat intimate partner violence as the pandemic it is
We’ve all heard it a million times during the COVID-19 pandemic: for your own safety, stay home. To many of us, this is excellent advice. For others—almost all of them women—the combination of long hours at home and new stresses brought on by the pandemic will lead to control and…
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Opposition propose BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act
Now is the time for bi-partisan collaboration in addressing the root causes of poverty On Tuesday, May 6th, in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Michelle Mungall) introduced a private member’s Bill proposing a BC Poverty Reduction and Economic Inclusion Act. The Act, were it to be enacted, would…
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