Building health: Canada’s opportunity to improve housing affordability
Housing stability, quality, safety, and affordability all affect health outcomes. Adequate financial investments and ambition are required to achieve this.
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The short-sighted vision of conservative educational policy
When in power, conservative governments across Canada have a record of not only undermining and defunding public education, but also proposing and implementing policies that grant private schools more resources and power.
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Falling short on the National Housing Strategy
The success of any policy initiative, particularly one as important and complex as a national strategy, lies in the details of how promises and programmes are delivered.
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A data look at Millennials and growing inequality
Without policy interventions that are based on data and a solid understanding of the issues that need to be addressed, inequality will continue to grow as millennials age — impacting future generations and their economic outcomes.
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Laytonian social democracy: one small practical action at a time
What was innovative was the way Layton talked about social democratic ideas as pragmatic solutions to everyday problems that bring hope and optimism to average Canadians.
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Affordable housing increasingly illusory in Vancouver, Toronto
These data point to stark and growing disparity between incomes and housing prices since 2005, far outstretching a related but less pronounced trend in the rest of the country.
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Cost of home today is double the amount in weeks of labour time compared to 1970s
Are residential properties becoming less affordable over time, and as a result less accessible or plausible for those with lower- or median-incomes?
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Beyond “throw the bums out” in Alberta: Why campaigns matter
Alberta isn’t one kind of political culture at all. It is culturally and politically complex and dynamic, with geographic, demographic and ideological diversity comparable to other provinces. In all elections, however, the strength of the campaign matters.
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Fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage fight comes to Canada
We’ve seen effective campaigns around minimum wages and precarious work in the United States, sponsored in part by various unions.
