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Shifting Borders: Canadian Attitudes Towards Immigration
Understanding the nature of Canadians’ changing attitudes, the nuances behind them, and the causes behind the shift is critical to reversing the trend and bolstering confidence in Canada’s immigration system.
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Bridging the Transition: Labour Mobility and Workforce Adaptation in Canada’s Just Transition
This report examines labour mobility within Canada’s high-emission sectors using economic data and statistical methodologies to assess the effectiveness of current policies and identify areas for improvement.
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Ed’s Vision for a Canada Free from Child Poverty
"The Prime Minister said this fall that our goal for social programs must be those that 'bring us both peace of mind and pride in citizenship.' I agree. All Canadians…
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Industrial Democracy: A Proposal for Action
The trade unions are such a progressive force; their victories over the irresponsible concentration of power in our economic system belong to all Canadians. We must, therefore, support the trade…
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A Radically Democratic Free Speech
The guiding ideal of Ed Broadbent’s public life was that liberal rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression are necessary but insufficient guarantors of democratic equality.
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Dreams and Realities on the Home Front: Canadians’ Call for Government Action on Housing Affordability
Overall, a strong majority of respondents from both the BC Lower Mainland and the GTHA want to see the federal government get back into building housing (80%), with 41% wanting…
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Canadian Grocery Profitability: Inflation, Wages and Financialization
This report examines the Canadian grocery industry to better understand what is driving retail profit growth, and as a result, higher supermarket food prices.
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Making the Shift to a Green Economy: The Green Economy Network’s Common Platform
An alliance of unions, with environmental, public interest, and faith-based organizations are working together through the Green Economy Network to put these principles to practice by calling for big green investments over…
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White Paper on the Status of Trans and Gender Diverse People
The goal of this white paper is to provide real solutions to real problems faced by trans and gender diverse people. These solutions require continuous critical reflection on transphobia to…
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Will the Response to the US Inflation Reduction Act Reveal Canada’s Lack of Green Industrial Policy?
Canada’s apparent need to defensively respond to the US Inflation Reduction Act should spur some hard thinking on the purpose of industrial policy, the policy approach our country needs, and how to…
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Beyond Simply Building More: Policy Options for Combatting the Financialization of Housing in Ontario
To ensure that housing affordability crises do not reoccur in the long-term future, the Ontario government also needs to introduce new models of housing that decommodify affordable dwellings, rather than…
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Making it Right: Universal Basic Mental Healthcare for Ontario
Expanding the Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP) to include universal basic mental healthcare would relieve the economic costs of mental illness, improve well-being, and save the province millions of dollars.