Tenants’ advocates warn of landlords ‘double dipping’ into green retrofit fund without greater transparency or strings attached
A recent survey by ACORN Canada found more than half of 100+ tenants in Alberta-based Avenue Living’s properties saw rent increases of $300 to $600 in the past two years. The organization entered into a financing agreement with the Canada Infrastructure Bank for energy-efficient retrofits in June 2022.
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
The federal government must not accept that the telecommunications companies under its jurisdiction and regulated at its initiative are exporting our jobs and damaging our economy.
Housing the latest skirmish pitting progressive government against zombie neoliberalism
The growing disparity in wealth between homeowners and those who cannot afford to buy into the residential lottery has become a pressing matter of inequality.
A trading nation needs a globally engaged workforce
It makes good business sense for the Global Skills Opportunity program to become a permanent part of Canada’s ambition for growth.
Freeland’s budget should focus on housing, ending homelessness, writes Ottawa reader
More and more people are homeless in Ottawa and across Canada due to the rapidly increasing cost of housing. In the federal budget on April 16, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland must focus on housing and ending homelessness, with a particular emphasis on providing direct financial support, such as a homelessness prevention and housing benefit to […]
Time to act on Canada Disability Benefit promise
Lessons learned from the employment insurance model should find their way into the new benefit.
Better climate-risk mapping data a must as Canada addresses housing crisis, says experts
The state of flood and hazard mapping across Canada is varied, with some of the available data around 30 or 40 years old, according to Sarah Miller, research lead for adaptation with the Canadian Climate Institute.
Canada needs a national housing standard to protect migrant agricultural workers: KAIROS
KAIROS echoes the call for the establishment and enforcement of a national housing standard to protect migrant agricultural workers. This must include ending indentured labour in Canada, which, for decades, has driven substandard living quarters and other workplace abuses such as underpayment, physical and sexual abuse, and unsafe working conditions, to name a few. Government attempts to […]
Canada needs a comprehensive, national plan for refugee claimant housing
With emergency shelters overwhelmed, and alarming headlines telling of refugee claimants sleeping on the streets in Toronto and other major Canadian cities, this is a problem that can no longer be ignored.
School food advocates celebrate as Liberals serve up long-awaited $1B for national program
While still light on specifics or agreements with the provinces and territories, Coalition for Healthy School Food co-ordinator Debbie Field says ‘the most important thing is they’re making the whole commitment.’
