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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nationalobserver.com | Bruce Campbell |Chris Hatch |Rosa Galvez
A climate change hearing at the U.N. International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, was held just 10 days after nations gathered for their latest climate conference, COP-29, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Although the court hearing from December 2-13, 2024, has not received the same attention, its ruling could be consequential.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
policyalternatives.ca | Bruce Campbell
The COP29 Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, wrapped up last weekend. COP or Conference of the Parties, brings together countries which have ratified the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the parent treaty to the 2015 Paris agreement It comes at a time when our planet is experiencing record temperatures, floods, droughts, disappearing forests, collapsing ice sheets, rising sea levels, death and disease.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Molly McCracken |Bruce Campbell |Simon Enoch
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives joins the rest of Canada in honouring the life and legacy of Murray Sinclair: Anishinaabe leader, jurist, senator, and head commissioner of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Justice Sinclair, whose spirit name is Mizhana Gheezhik—The One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky—passed away on November 4, 2024 in Winnipeg at age 73.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Bruce Campbell
On Aug. 24, Canada’s federal labour board ordered the Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPK) railways, along with more than 9,000 workers, to return to work and enter binding arbitration to produce a new contract. The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) acted on the government’s referral when making the decision. However, CIRB has not designated railways as an “essential service,” a status that would give legal standing for the government to force staff back to work.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Bruce Campbell |Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert
The Board accepted a request from the government to order more than 9,000 Teamsters members back to work at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City and to impose binding arbitration to produce a new contract.
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May 14, 2024 | 
ohscanada.com | Bruce Campbell
The proposed legislation is currently in consultation with businesses, industry associations, academics and Canadians about key components of the bill’s latest version, including granting federal regulatory bodies the power to set up what are known as regulatory sandboxes and incorporation by reference mechanisms (IBR). Regulatory sandboxes allow companies to try out different regulatory approaches that aren’t fully compliant with existing regulations.
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May 9, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Bruce Campbell
The federal government introduced a recurring annual regulatory modernization bill in 2019 covering all regulatory agencies, including energy, agriculture, transportation, health and telecommunications.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Ricardo Tranjan |Bruce Campbell |Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott
Education funding in Ontario has been a bit of a shell game for some time. Back in 2019, the government announced that the average class size in secondary schools was going to increase from 22 to 28. Parents and teachers pushed back, and soon after, the same government made a big deal of lowering the average class size from 28 to 25. We knew then we were in for a bumpy ride.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
yfile.news.yorku.ca | Bruce Campbell |Stuart Trew |Randy Robinson |Trish Hennessy
Ed Broadbent, a towering figure in the Canadian left, has passed away. Ed entered the House of Commons in 1968 as a member of parliament (MP) for the working-class riding of Oshawa-Whitby. He became leader of the NDP in 1975, where he remained until his departure in 1989. At Jack Layton’s urging, he returned to parliament as MP for Ottawa Centre in 2004 but stepped down several years later to take care of his wife, Lucille.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Bruce Campbell |Stuart Trew |Randy Robinson |Trish Hennessy
Ed Broadbent, a towering figure in the Canadian left, has passed away. Ed entered the House of Commons in 1968 as a member of parliament (MP) for the working-class riding of Oshawa-Whitby. He became leader of the NDP in 1975, where he remained until his departure in 1989. At Jack Layton’s urging, he returned to parliament as MP for Ottawa Centre in 2004 but stepped down several years later to take care of his wife, Lucille.
