Growing economic precarity and the absence of community support are pressing concerns for young parents—and young people aspiring to be parents. Governments have an important role to play supporting ...

Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit ...

As the governments of several Canadian provinces, including Quebec, are actively working to privatize health care services, this socio-economic brief sheds light on the effects of privatization by ...

The Ontario government is aggressively promoting greater for-profit involvement in health care delivery. The most pronounced shift in this policy direction came in 2023 with the passage of Bill 60 ...

The federal government is seeking $60 billion in spending cuts to pay for the doubling of the Department of National Defence budget. New information has come to light revealing asylum seekers will be ...

The gap between Ontario’s minimum wage and living wage continues to grow. The minimum wage is a legal floor: the minimum amount the provincial government requires employers to pay workers. Although ...

For 2026, the Winnipeg living wage is increasing by $0.54 to $20.31 an hour, while living wages for Brandon and Thompson are increasing by $1.18 and $0.84, to $17.40 and $18.73 an hour, respectively.

There is no question that the political landscape upon which the data centre industry conducts its business has undergone a massive sea change over the past year. It was only a short time ago that ...

At the Canada Investment Summit on September 15, Prime Minister Carney announced a major change to the tax treatment of new investment, called the Productivity Mega Deduction. Mega, he joked, because ...

“When can I get my own phone?” my eight year old daughter asks me. “Never,” I say to myself, wanting to protect her from the open internet. Families are living through unprecedented exposure to ...

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