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  • Image: Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, one month after the November 2015 breach. © Bruno Milanez, PoEMAS / UFJF

    Tailings dam collapses in the Americas: Lessons learned?

    In fewer than five years, three major dam collapses have occurred in the Americas—the most recent of which killed more than 230 people, and likely killed up to 260; many of the dead have never been recovered from the toxic mining sludge in which they were buried. The disasters that…

  • Labour Matters

    Migrant Voices

    Migrant Workers in Manitoba Each year up to 400 Mexican men – migrant workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program 1 (SAWP) – work on farms in Manitoba. These labourers perform physically strenuous work on vegetable farms and in greenhouses for up to eight months, year after year. They live…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    $130 million NAFTA payout sets troubling precedent

    Why should a provincial government be punished for doing the right thing? That’s a question the citizens of Newfoundland and Labrador – and all Canadians – should be asking themselves in the aftermath of last summer’s decision by the Harper government to pay AbitibiBowater $130 million to settle a NAFTA…

  • Scientific “review” of fracking falls well short of what is needed: full public inquiry required, groups say

    VANCOUVER – A scientific panel appointed by the provincial government to review natural gas industry fracking operations conspicuously avoids tackling human health concerns, which can only be properly addressed by a full public inquiry, say public health groups, other non-governmental organizations and First Nations. The groups are responding to the…

  • Les écoles franco-ontariennes elles aussi débrayent : Les enjeux pour ces écoles

    Conseil scolaire Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 4 cours en ligne) Postes d’enseignant éliminés d’ici 2023-2024 (scénario de 2 cours en ligne) Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO) 64 62 Conseil scolaire Viamonde 39 38 CSC MonAvenir 61 59 CSC Providence 35 34 CSD catholique…

  • Rendering of Sen̓áḵw project in Kitsilano. Credit: http://www.senakw.com

    Lessons from the Squamish Nation’s ambitious new rental housing plan

    As we face a severe housing crisis in Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is poised to add 6,000 new homes—mostly market rental housing—to its 11 acre reserve lands in Kitsilano. This will create a major new ongoing revenue stream for the Nation, while providing rental homes to help ease Vancouver’s ultra-low…

  • Communities are Partners

    Background Report This is a background companion report featuring a literature review of: Communities are Partners: Workers Occupational Health and Safety Rights with Newcomers by Dorothy Wigmore documents the history and impact of the program and makes recommendations. For the past 20 years, newcomer and migrant workers in Manitoba have…

  • October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence

    Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence” (BMD) weapons program. Unfortunately, BMD is still very much alive and well and thriving in Canada. In fact, Canada has been complicit in BMD for…

  • High CEO pay shatters previous records, now 227 times more than average worker pay

    C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from…

  • Take the welfare time limit off the books

    The Government of British Columbia now says that, over the next year, only 339 people will be affected by the 24-month time limit on welfare — the rule intended to limit “employable” welfare recipients to two years of support during any five year period. Earlier this month, the Ministry of…

  • December 2007: An Interview With Afghan MP Malalai Joya

    Karzai government treats women as brutally as did the Taliban Malalai Joya, 29, is the youngest female member of Afghanistan’s parliament and has been elected twice from the western province of Farah. She is a popular women’s rights activist and an outspoken critic of the government of Hamid Karzai and…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Displacement, Housing and Homelessness in Northern Manitoba Communities

    Poverty, overcrowded housing, high rates of homelessness, and systemic racism are just some of the underlying conditions causing communities in the northern region of Manitoba to be vulnerable to COVID-19.  For these reasons and more, Indigenous leaders in communities in the northern region acted quickly to declare a state of…