Low-income seniors who received CERB and/or CRB to support them during some of the hardest periods of the pandemic are now facing cuts to their Guaranteed Income Supplement.
This month has been shaped by stories of struggle for working people who are trying to make ends meet, and reports of business as usual for the rich and powerful.
Workers celebrated as essential only a year ago amidst a deadly pandemic are now being asked to accept stagnant wages, crumbling social infrastructure, and public sector austerity.
The CMA issued a press release Thursday stating it is 'disappointed' by the decisions of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Quebec Premier Francois Legault to not require health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
It was always clear the worst of the pandemic would be forgotten and swept under the rug, but for it to happen so quickly and so definitively is truly rotten.
Canadians with few viable job prospects and little income support say they are facing a 'bleak' future with the termination of the Canada Recovery Benefit.
"Without any extra benefits, I don't know what we're going to do."
Canadian oil and gas producers are on track to expand production to 30 per cent above 2020 levels by 2030, leading to an anticipated 25 per cent increase in carbon emissions.
The climate change strategies employed by most of the companies assessed in the report don’t count the roughly 70-80 per cent of emissions caused by the burning of oil and gas — the very products they’re producing.