Poverty Trends 2023
By Michael Krakowiak |
Poverty Trends 2023
Carbon pricing would boost government’s credibility
By Karri Munn-Venn, Ben Pasha |
(Originally published in Embassy News) The timing seems all too perfect. The critical COP 21 climate conference in Paris at the end of 2015 comes but a few months after the next federal election here in Canada. Nearly two years out, preparations for both events have already begun. But will they actually coincide to bring…
Budget 2023: A Meaningful Step Forward, But Is It Enough?
By Citizens for Public Justice |
The 2023 Federal Budget was announced at a time when Canadian residents share deep concerns about affordability, access to health care, and the ever-accelerating climate crisis. The question that CPJ asks around every federal budget cycle remains the same: Does this budget prioritize systemic solutions that could eradicate poverty, uphold the rights and dignity of…
PJ Backgrounder On Housing And Homelessness3
By Michael Krakowiak |
PJ Backgrounder On Housing And Homelessness3
The Effects of Poverty in Canada’s North
By Jenny Prosser |
This is the second part in a series exploring climate change, poverty, how the two are related, and their impacts on Canadian Inuit. The first part explored the major impacts of climate change in Canada’s North, both on the environment and on the Inuit living there. This installment examines how poverty affects the Inuit.
Changing the Climate Debate
By Karri Munn-Venn |
From The Catalyst, Summer 2015
There was a time not too long ago that climate change was a bit of a fringe issue. No more. It has moved into the mainstream. The terrain has shifted. Climate justice is no longer simply the purview of environmentalism and social justice.
Letter to the PM: Do not weaken carbon pricing measures
By Citizens for Public Justice |
August 2018
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Following the release of updates to the federal carbon pricing system for the country’s largest emitters, CPJ wrote to Prime Minister Trudeau to express concern about the changes announced and to urge his government to return the output-based standards to at most 70 and 80 per cent of GHG emissions intensity as outlined in the January 2018 framework document.