Hundreds of activists and organizers traveled to Ottawa last week to discuss the future of Canadian climate to counter climate change and climate injustice. Over four days, they converged to discuss advocacy strategies and the need to create a just and livable future. The event, PowerShift: Young and Rising, wrapped…
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Suggestions by the Ontario government that class size caps be lifted for primary students, or that full day kindergarten not be guaranteed beyond the 2019-20 school year (further complicated by the education minister’s announcement that full day learning, however would be guaranteed) have arguably been the predominant focus of the…
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When I first heard the phrase “generational genocide” used in the context of climate change, I was both shocked and skeptical. The term genocide is reserved for the most sickening and violent atrocities in human history—the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, the extermination of Indigenous…
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On February 5, Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, Lisa MacLeod, held a press conference with her Parliamentary Secretary, Amy Fee, to announce sweeping changes to the Ontario Autism Program. I sat glued to my screen at my office and then following the announcement, closed my door and cried….
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Construction is a growing sector of Ontario’s economy, and unlike other expanding sectors, one that creates quality jobs. Good wages and decent working conditions are a result of the relatively high union density in the industry. The recently introduced Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, will weaken these protections for…
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Last year, the BC government made a landmark investment to begin addressing the affordability crisis in child care. A new report released by CCPA this week shows just how urgently needed those measures were (and continue to be). The report, Developmental Milestones: Child care fees in Canada’s big cities 2018, shares…
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This past November, the Canadian Plastics Industry Association’s VP of sustainability tweeted an invitation to the CPIA’s annual Plasticurious video contest in which teens (ages 14-18) compete for the opportunity to win up to $1,000, “educate themselves and their peers about how plastics power their life,” and have fun learning…
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