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11/12/20
Author: 
Theresa McManus
Wesgroup is hoping to build a 34-storey rental building, which includes 423 units - including 96 that are at less-than-market rates - at 100 Braid St. Contributed

Dec. 9, 2020

Tower grows in height and switches from strata to rental units

Wesgroup Properties has received the green light to build a 34-storey tower in Sapperton – provided it contains rental units.

11/12/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Green Party Leader Annamie Paul on Nov. 18 in Ottawa. "It really is Scrooge-like," Paul says of the CRA's CERB letters to Canadians. Paul photo / Facebook

December 10th 2020

Many Canadians have been left stunned or in tears after being told by the Canada Revenue Agency that they might need to pay back all the money they got from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).

11/12/20
Author: 
John Lancaster

Dec 09, 2020

Luiza Dos Anjos, 75, is a resident of Extendicare Halton Hills in Georgetown, Ont. In this photo, her family wheels her into a hospital to have her left leg partially amputated. It became infected while living in the care home. (Ivan Arsovski/CBC News)

09/12/20
Author: 
Naomi Klein
WRITING ABOUT “The Great Reset” is not easy. It has turned into a viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide, most of which is not really happening anyway, some of which actually should.
 
It’s extra confusing for me to unpick this particular knot because at the center of it all is a bastardization of a concept I know a little something about: the shock doctrine.
 
 
 
07/12/20
Author: 
Marty Hart-Landsberg

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This is the first in a series of posts that aim to describe and evaluate the World War II mobilization experience in the United States in order to illuminate some of the economic and political challenges we can expect to face as we work for a Green New Deal.  

07/12/20
Author: 
Stephanie Smith, BCGEU President

John Horgan’s new majority government was sworn in last week, as a second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across B.C. [1]

With new outbreaks in long-term care announced almost daily, Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore is stepping into an important role as Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors Services and Long Term Care.

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