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A report card grades the four Ontario political parties on a number of social issues. Image credit: Health Providers Against Poverty
The Ontario election: A report card for equity
Cathy Crowe | Health Providers Against Poverty analyzes Ontario party platforms with an equity lens.
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B.C. saw 73,000 new jobs created in 2016, but this is not a good news story
Seth Klein, Iglika Ivanova | The headline-making job creation numbers mask large regional disparities across the province. Outside Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria, B.C.'s jobs story is nothing to brag about.
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Ontario job market remains on pause
Sheila Block | Employment in Canada hit the pause button in April, with job losses in Alberta offset by gains in British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick.
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From exploited to supported: Phasing out Canada's lowest wage work programs
Teuila Fuatai | In part two of her investigation into sheltered workshop programs exploiting intellectually disabled adults in Canada, Teuila Fuatai looks at what is next for the programs and those involved.
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'It's been a real struggle': Workers across Canada fight for $15 and fairness
Teuila Fuatai | Teuila Fuatai spoke with minimum-wage workers across Canada about their job conditions and the fight for $15 and fairness in Canada.
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CBSA conducting raids on caregivers in B.C. and Yukon
Redeye Collective | Project Guardian is a Canada Border Services Agency project targeting foreign caregivers in their employers' homes. Advocates say workers are being penalized for leaving exploitative workplaces.
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Change is in the air
David Suzuki | By embracing scientific information about the warming planet and committing to avoid a catastrophic temperature increase, we create a huge opportunity that groups like the CLC propose we exploit.
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Fraser Institute misses the mark on real barriers to labour mobility in Canada
Mike Luff | The Fraser Institute says the main barriers to labour mobility in Canada are regulatory roadblocks. But what about access to full-time jobs, pensions coverage, housing prices, affordable child-care...
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Black Lives Matter - Toronto
Redeye Collective | The Black Lives Matter movement started in the U.S. in 2012. In the past three years, it’s become a global movement. Pascale Diverlus is co-founder of the Toronto chapter.
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Does LIP Really Respect Immigrants & What Actually is Needed to be Done for Immigrants?
| This article reveals how the Guelph-Wellington Local Immigration Partnership exploit on the immigrants and immigrants' Issues
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Who's unionized? Demographic shift shows changes in the job market
Ella Bedard | In the age of globalization, with a shrinking manufacturing industry, teachers, nurses and civil servants are the new faces of labour.
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Precarious labour debated in Parliament
Ella Bedard | Precarious work is a trend that's all the rage these days. Davenport MP Andrew Cash is calling for a national strategy for urban workers.