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Time for a Giant Leap Forward for Workers’ Wages in Nova Scotia

Banning replacement workers in federally regulated industries will remove one of the employers’ most unfair tools against collective bargaining

There’s no evidence that banning replacement workers makes strikes longer. Employer organizations simply want to keep using scabs.

New data shows what observers long suspected—the rich took advantage of the pandemic to fill their bank accounts

Carbon pricing fight a dangerous distraction from real climate policy

We should use the six-year renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement to strip out Trump-era language benefiting big tech oligarchs. Then keep pushing.

Prepared remarks for Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2024 Budget

Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology consideration of Bill C-35

Ontario government is squirreling money away while public services suffer

The medical care system clearly needs government support to get it back to health

Medical care and social investments are not an either/or proposition.

Get Well Canada, well-being budgeting, and health-in-all-policies are converging to address the most critical factors shaping health are the economic, social and environmental conditions in which we live.

Research finds the ratio between health and social spending is key to understanding health outcomes.

Health inequality is a persistent problem—and it's directly tied to other forms of inequality.

Half of our health and well-being is based on social determinants of health

Building power to change social structures