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  • Coronavirus a chance to rethink Canada’s social safety net

    Governments across the globe are scrambling to provide financial assistance for workers unable to earn money during the coronavirus pandemic. But it’s a difficult task...
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  • PCs declare funds for human trafficking after cuts to rape crisis centres

    On March 5, Associate Minister of Children and Women's Issues Jill Dunlop announced her office was giving $2 million to Ontario sexual assault centres. According to...
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  • Kensington Market businesses feeling stress from rising rents

    Cece Scriver has lived in Kensington Market her entire life. She’s the manager of Courage My Love the staple for vintage apparel, oddities, home goods,...
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  • Doug Ford’s supply side economics creating upheaval in the classroom

    Jonathan LeFresne graduated from teacher’s college in 2013. He worked for a private school for one year before being hired by the Toronto District School...
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  • Silence leads to more violence in abusive relationships

    I successfully left my abusive marriage more than a decade ago. It wasn’t easy – far from it. I finally left in 2004, but 20 months...
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  • What would the world lose if Kitimat’s whales disappeared?

    What if self-awareness, compassion and thinking were not exclusively human affairs? That’s the question posed by German filmmaker Mirjam Leuze at the conclusion of her documentary The...
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  • Nestle water bottling operations raise fears about future water shortages in Ontario

    World Water Day was marked on March 22. This years theme, Leaving no one behind, is adopted from a central promise of the UNs 2030...
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  • What does Doug Ford have against the poor?

    Brian Russell had $40 left in his pocket when he was one of 4,000 people selected for Ontario's basic income pilot project. “Your life is...
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  • Why women stand to lose most under Doug Ford’s Making Ontario Open For Business Act

    The Raise the Rates Coalition is holding a rally outside Premier Doug Ford’s family business, Deco Labels, on Saturday (November 17), at 1 pm, to...
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  • Doug Ford drops water bomb

    Opposition MPPs want Premier Doug Ford to explain why he secretly met with a China-owned company seeking to extract some 1.6 million litres a day...
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  • Basic truths on Doug Ford’s plan to end basic income

    If ever there was a government policy that’s a no-brainer, it’s the Ontario Basic Income Pilot (OBIP) project.  So why did Doug Ford break an...
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  • E-petition calls on feds to include residential schools history in Canadian citizenship study guide

    A petition calling on the federal government to redesign the current Canadian Citizenship study guide and exam to acknowledge Indigenous history has received the 500...
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  • A prayer for water

    I spent the last week of August secluded at a cottage on Fairy Lake. Touted as one of the jewels of the Muskoka region, Fairy...
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  • Canada 150: what’s for Indigenous people to “celebrate,” exactly?

    When I was in Grade 1, the entire country was celebrating 100 years of Confederation. Every school child was given a commemorative coin minted for...
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  • Welfare discrimination

    Teresa Villeneuve receives $917 monthly child support from her ex-partner. As the mother of two children, Villeneuve would be entitled to $1,004 a month from...
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