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Making life truly affordable requires more than lowering inflation

Making the Canada Disability Benefit work

Young man with an artificial leg is working in a furniture factory. He is standing next to a large stack of wood, holding a two-by-four. He is wearing grey coveralls, a plaid shirt and light-brown suede shoes. He uses an artificial limb from the knee down on his left leg. It is a thin metal pole with a slightly larger dark blue piece of plastic just below the knee.

A focus on work needs to be part of the new Canada disability benefit

Well-being of children with disabilities calls for rights-based policies

More inclusive parliaments start with better workplace conditions

A black and white overhead image of a crowd moving through a crosswalk.

Disability needs a new story

Who is receiving social assistance?

A woman speaks with a young boy sitting at a table with a tiny toy truck, a stuffed animal, colour pencils and sheets of paper in front of him.

Taking care of the care workers

The economic case against low-wage temporary foreign workers

L’image représente une jeune femme noir tapant au clavier, entourée de diagrammes techniques translucides.

COVID was harmful for youth employment

A person in a motorized wheel chair crosses a Vancouver street in March.

COVID concerns of disabled people multiply as health protocols lifted

Missing the mark on a profound social change with MAiD for mental illness

Young boy gets help with homework.

Assistive technology is failing our students

The poorest of the poor use Hamilton food banks

What’s driving depression and mental-health issues in the public service?

La promesse d’une prestation canadienne pour les personnes handicapées

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