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Canada set a poverty reduction goal. We’re falling behind.

Share Canada vowed to end poverty by 2030, yet progress has stalled. The government can’t wait any longer to deliver real solutions. In 2018, the Trudeau government launched Opportunity for All, Canada’s first-ever national poverty reduction strategy. It established an official poverty line and set legislated poverty reduction targets: a 20 per cent cut by 2…

A history of the “parental rights movement(s)”

Share The practice of raising and educating children, at a moment of seismic social, economic, and political change, has been elevated to new levels of public scrutiny. Political pundits, media personalities, op-ed columnists, school boards, parent-interest groups, and even legislatures have been consumed by debates that (on the surface) concern best pedagog…

Cuts will impact women and racialized public servants disproportionately, new analysis says

Cuts will impact women and racialized public servants disproportionately, new analysis says An estimated 59 per cent of the employees whose jobs will be cut will be women, according to a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s coming cuts to the federal public service are expected to disproportionately impact…