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The future of cities and the future of work

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org I spoke last week at a conference in Cardiff on the...

Publicly owned land should be used for affordable housing, not sold to private developers

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com On Jan. 25, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to “ensure” affordable...

Stuck in traffic: does your wasted time count for anything?

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Traffic congestion studies make for quick and easy news articles, but...

Innovators develop seaweed-based alternatives to plastic food wrappers

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Developers at Flinders University and the German biotech company one •...

EXCERPT: Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic

Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca The following is the afterword by Spacing‘s Shawn Micallef in the...

Information literacy courses can help students tackle confirmation bias and spot narrative spin, disinformation

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com When it comes to the news these days, what we choose to regard as trustworthy has...

Four Ways the Ford Government is Privatizing Hospitals

Click here to view original web page at ochuleftwords.blogspot.com Premier Ford wants for-profit surgical clinics -- but that is just one area where his government...

Creating space for community imagination

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org This is a time of year when we have space to reflect and to make resolutions...

How the pharmaceutical industry uses disinformation to undermine drug price reform

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Canada’s drug prices are the fourth highest in the developed world. Despite this, Innovative Medicines Canada...

Latin American solidarity economies demonstrate the power of the people

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net Solidaristic principles prove great in theory, but how do they hold up in practice? Specifically, in...

Why don’t we zone for rental apartments?

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca There’s no law of nature preventing provincial and municipal policymakers from establishing a land use designation...

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What Does Our $78-Billion Housing Program Really Fix?

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Who knows? Canada spent five years and billions on the affordability crisis but still has no...

Canada’s First Nations Protect Millions of Acres of Their Lands

Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org Indigenous-led efforts are conserving land on an unprecedented scale while enabling scientists to study threats to...

Green Banks Catalyze Green Energy Projects

Click here to view original web page at www.yesmagazine.org Financial nonprofits are building capacity for transformative energy upgrades that could turn climate action dreams into...

15 movement victories in 2022 you may not have heard about

Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca All around us, ordinary people are fighting together to improve their lives and the world, and...

Four steps to jump-start Canadian climate policy

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org The outcome of the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) was both promising and disappointing....

Here is a health care to-do list for the federal government

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca This system deteriorated when the matching money dependent on the broad conditions — including no fees...

Portland’s circular economy is primed for success. Can it offer a blueprint for the rest of us?

Click here to view original web page at www.shareable.net This year’s climate conference, COP 27, focused a lot on loss and damage compensation. The question...

Europe’s 2050 mission to a future-fit economy

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu The step up to a sustainable economy is steep, but it is achievable with political leadership...

Global momentum on clean electricity keeps building: Canada must prioritize action now

Click here to view original web page at www.pembina.org Binnu Jeyakumar, director of the Pembina Institute’s clean electricity program, attended COP27 in Egypt this month....

Federal government must confront challenges for Canadians who rent homes

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A range of economic pressures are converging to make ...

The Bank of Canada is blaming employed workers and higher wages for inflation — why isn’t it concerned about surging corporate profits?

Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com It’s cruelly perverse to suggest that our biggest economic problem ...

Canada’s National Housing Strategy: Is it really addressing homelessness and affordability?

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The National Housing Strategy (NHS) is a 10-year, $72-billion effort launched in 2017 to address key...

A just transition must include the world’s massive “invisible” workforce

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org With COP27 on in Egypt, and COP15 coming up in Montreal, action is needed to protect...

Views from COP27: How the climate conference could confront colonialism by centring Indigenous rights

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com The Huni Kui Indigenous people are an integral part of the Amazon Rainforest. They don’t differentiate...

As Skyrocketing Rents Leave Refugees with Nowhere to Go, The Human Right to Housing is Needed More than Ever

Click here to view original web page at make-the-shift.org It’s in the news every day—people are forced to flee their homes in growing numbers due...

Trees help cities tackle climate crisis and inequality

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Greening cities is a crucial part of resolving the climate crisis, but it also offers ways...

Why voting for municipal action on affordable housing is in everyone’s interest

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca The affordable housing crisis in Canada is putting people on the streets or forcing them to...

The new villain? Workers fighting for better wages. Don’t fall for it

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca The reaction was swift, brutal — and entirely predictable. When news broke that some federal public...

Energy transition and post-growth scenarios

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org We are living in a context today in which the physical limits, natural resource constraints, and...

Ontario science table details plan to improve primary health care

Click here to view original web page at spon.caThis article was originally published by the Toronto's Star's Editorial Board on Oct. 5, 2022. Those who...

ELECTION: The incredible shrinking transit debate

Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, Toronto’s local politicians had ambitions...

Who is ‘the public?’ The answer shapes how we address homelessness

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Housing affordability and homelessness are hot topics in municipal politics these days. But ironically, unhoused citizens...

The Coming COVID Brain Wreck?

Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca A new study adds to concerns about the...

Canada can’t let industry and provinces stall carbon pricing

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Although carbon pricing is widely accepted as a critical tool to help resolve the climate crisis,...

Better income assistance programs are needed to help people with rising cost of living

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com At the onset of the pandemic, the Canadian federal government cobbled together a series of programs...

The ‘15-Minute City’: What They Are And How To Build Them

Click here to view original web page at www.forbes.com Focusing on making amenities more accessible to city dwellers comes with a        host of benefits If you’re...

ELECTION TORONTO: If not housing now, when?

Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Is Housing Now dead? In case you missed seasons 1 to 3, city council in January, 2019,...

We Can Reimagine Our Systems of Ownership and Control

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The new issue of Jacobin is out now. Subscribe today and get a yearlong print and...

Is gentrification inevitable? A new book says no

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca A new book by Leslie Kern analyzes how gentrification happens, its causes, and ways to mitigate...

How improving COPD treatment in primary care could reduce demand on hospitals and emergency departments

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com In Ontario, nearly 900,000 people live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). People with this condition...
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