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Inclusive, Equitable Communities: Ensuring Human Rights

As we contend with the ravages of a global pandemic and plan our recovery, Canadians have discovered, as in other times of crisis, what...

Social Rights and Protections

The foundation laid for social rights and a social contract In the mid-20th century, after fifteen years of the Great Depression and the Second World...

The Social Commons: Our Five Pillars

Where We Started From Our journey began with the planning of a fall 2019 symposium exploring the relevance of the Social Commons as a framework...

Sustainable Eco-Systems: Economies Living in Harmony with Nature

How Do We Ensure Sustainable Eco-Systems? Living through the pandemic has exposed how precarious so much of our social and economic life really is.  It...

Creating a Human Needs Economy

The post-pandemic economy: More of the same? As the disruption of the pandemic nears its end, we begin to imagine post-pandemic life in all of...

Deepening Democracy: Strengthening Democracy and Civil Society

What Is Democracy’s Place in the Commons? Living through the pandemic has exposed how precarious so much of our social and economic life. It revealed...

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How Obsolete Economic Thinking is Strangling Economic Recovery: Part 2

This post is the second of a two part analysis documenting the failings of current economic thinking as evidenced by the policies of central...

How Obsolete Economic Thinking is Strangling Economic Recovery: Part 1

This post is the first of a two part analysis documenting the failings of current economic thinking as evidenced by the policies of central...

COP27 supporters say climate solutions are only possible with human rights

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com As COP27 draws to its end in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the link between climate action and...

Biodiversity summit offers Canada a chance to step up

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca B.C. and Canada don’t appear remotely ready to realize the convention’s vision of “living in harmony...

How co-ops are transforming Quebec’s food deserts

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net In French, the word for food processing is the same as the word for sweeping social...

Proposal to grant the ocean rights calls for a sea change in legal framework

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com In 2022, the professional sporting group the Ocean Race launched a bid to establish the Universal...

Gabor Maté: Capitalist Society Is Making Us Physically and Mentally Unwell

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Dr Gabor Maté is a world-renowned author and physician, best known for his work on trauma,...

Holding the COP27 Summit in Egypt’s Police State Creates a Moral Crisis for the Climate Movement

Click here to view original web page at theintercept.com No one knows what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this:...

Canada must commit to a nature and biodiversity accountability act

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org COP15 in Montreal is the right time to start to dismantle the country’s colonial relationship with...

Climate Action Plans Could Help Address Injustice, Inequity in African Cities

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Equity and justice feature prominently in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th (IPCC) Assessment Report...

New Zealand: Citizen assemblies offer hope for democracy and climate change challenges

Click here to view original web page at www.newsroom.co.nz An experimental 'deliberative democracy' process has been used by Watercare to get input from Aucklanders on...

Premier’s plan to build infrastructure has the potential to benefit communities, if done right

Click here to view original web page at theonn.ca On August 9, 2022, the Ontario government re-tabled its 2022 budget and subsequently passed Bill 2...

Daring Cities 2022: Moving from triage to treatment in climate emergency response

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net Our world is on life support. 2022 has been filled with unprecedented climate disasters like droughts,...

Examining cooperation in nature: An interview with author Kristin Ohlson

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com In her new book, “Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the...

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com A recent report published by the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a scientific group...

Democratic backsliding and the poverty of the European Commission’s conception of democracy

Click here to view original web page at blogs.lse.ac.uk The European Commission has had a central role in debates over democratic backsliding in EU member...

Equitable Net-Zero

Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org Alberta’s economy is experiencing a period of immense change and opportunity. With billions of dollars in...

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