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No gender justice without climate justice

Human Needs Economy Iolanda Fresnillo and Leia Achampong -
Click here to view original web page at www.redpepper.org.uk New debt crises are bringing a fresh wave of austerity to the global south, ...

The Canada Disability Benefit Act is progress worth celebrating

Social Rights and Protection Elizabeth McIsaac and Alan Broadbent -
Click here to view original web page at spon.ca It is worth pausing to acknowledge when we make progress, to stand back and consider the...

Why the climate crisis is a care crisis – and how we can avert it

Human Needs Economy Harpreet Kaur Paul -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This article is part of openDemocracy’s new series on the care crisis that explores the roots...

A focus on work opportunity must be part of new Canada disability benefit

Human Needs Economy Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org The real work on the new Canada disability benefit is just beginning. Policymakers now need to...

Socialism Can Contain Humanity’s Worst Impulses and Encourage Our Best

Human Needs Economy Ben Burgis -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Capitalism leads to tremendous amounts of poverty, economic inequality, and financial stress. It disempowers the vast...

Austerity in public education financing is fostering growing inequities in Canada

Social Rights and Protection Joe Ingram -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org In the past month, teachers’ unions in Britain announced they would stage strike action to back...

Big business’ windfall profits rocket to “obscene” $1 trillion a year stoking cost-of-living crisis: Oxfam/ActionAid renew call for windfall profit taxes

Human Needs Economy Oxfam International -
Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org A Windfall Tax of 90% on last year's windfall profits would generate $941 billion —money that...

Blue carbon deserves a green light for the climate fight (commentary)

Sustainable Ecosystems Steve Trent -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Marine habitats like mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, salt marshes, and kelp forests cover just 0.2% of...

As Canada welcomes historic numbers of immigrants, how can communities be more welcoming?

Inclusive Equitable Communities Leah Hamilton, Awish Aslam, Priscila Ribeiro and Victoria Esses -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canada’s population has officially surpassed 40 million people, and immigration has significantly contributed to reaching this...

It’s unanimous: Hamilton wants a basic income

Inclusive Equitable Communities Doreen Nicoll -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Ted McMeekin hopes the current federal government implements a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income before the next...

Building Thriving Communities: Making a Shift toward Relational and Restorative Care

Inclusive Equitable Communities Kathryn Ghent -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org It was 1973 when Beth Mount visited a state institution for individuals with intellectual disabilities for...

We can no longer afford to delay in addressing the climate crisis

Sustainable Ecosystems David Suzuki and Ian Hanington -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca We’re running out of time, but we’ve made progress, and we have numerous solutions — more...

Historic meeting of ministers needs to look at international human rights

Inclusive Equitable Communities Alex Neve -
Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org A groundbreaking meeting to be held on June 20 in Halifax is likely to proceed with...

Immigration detention continues in Canada despite the end of provincial agreements

Inclusive Equitable Communities Linda Mussell and Jessica Evans -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Despite its reputation as a refugee-welcoming and multicultural country, Canada imprisons thousands of people on immigration-related...

Our activism secures new environmental protections

Sustainable Ecosystems David Suzuki and Ian Hanington -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca The long overdue modernization of Canada’s Environmental Protection Act is a positive first step...

Decarbonising the built environment: circularity key

Human Needs Economy Ivan Thung and Megan Murdie -
Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The World Circular Economy Forum meets today in Helsinki—construction is one of the biggest challenges. In the...
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Failing Global Systems

The Bankers Dilemma: The Decision to Raise or not Raise Interest Rates

Calls to Action

2024 Federal Budget Must Include Commitment to Livable Incomes, a Jobs Guarantee and an ambitious National Housing Strategy

Sustainable Economies

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Health and Well-being

Make palliative care a priority in health-care funding negotiations

Human Needs Economy

No gender justice without climate justice

Livable Incomes

From inflation shock to a sharp distributional conflict

Health and Well-being

Ontario’s solution to the health care crisis is to hire nurses through private agencies — at quadruple the cost

What Has to Change

To mitigate the climate crisis, we need to level the energy playing field

Right to Housing

Tenants take back power from landlords through strike action

Social Rights and Protection

The Canada Disability Benefit Act is progress worth celebrating

What We Need

UN should be learning from sustainable food producers – not hosting Big Ag

What Has to Change

Taking inequality seriously—and tackling it seriously

Inequality

The Creeping Pervasiveness of Precarious Employment Is No Accident

Connected Communities

Canada’s trains are key to a sustainable future

What We Must Protect

Fifteen Lessons from ‘Bracing for Disasters’

Future of Work

We’re in an AI hype cycle—can Canada make it a responsible one?

What We Must Protect

Wildfire evacuations: How our diverse experiences can strengthen disaster response

Health and Well-being

Closing of Toronto long-COVID rehab program a failure to support patients

Human Needs Economy

Why the climate crisis is a care crisis – and how we can avert it

What Has to Change

Access to vaccines and medicines—a new public goods paradigm

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