www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0... “We may have entered a phase where international law is background noise and hauled out when necessary and desired, and shoved in the back drawer when inconvenient”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... ‘the answers to specific questions Enoch and many others have — like the size of the data centre, how much energy it will consume, its water usage and how many jobs it might create — remain unclear’ @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... JFC

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'As we look to define what we mean by “elbows up” and “maitres chez nous” there is a robust policy agenda awaiting to build Canada and turn its vast physical and human resources into collective well being.' @marclee.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

“The conversation [about pay equity] is more difficult today than it was even a year ago,” says @kjscott.bsky.social. “You've seen...the vilification of diversity, employment, equity initiatives... in Canada, [and] certainly we've seen a step back from them.” #canfem www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...

"The #Manitoba government must rise to the occasion and deliver strong policy responses to provide help and relief [to Manitobans struggling with affordability]. Inaction will only let the income gap widen further." @mollymccracken.bsky.social #MBbudget2026 www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

A recent report from @policyalternatives.ca is shedding light on #Saskatchewan’s child poverty situation...the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces. @simonenoch.bsky.social www.cjwwradio.com/2026/02/25/2...

Our take on the Alberta budget by @alonghurst.bsky.social: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Also unclear is whether Alberta will prioritize the lowest complexity surgeries over more complex care….The budget also does not explain what Alberta’s new two-tier system will mean for timely surgical care’ @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social

The feds quietly released the 2030 #SustainableJobs Action Plan this week as required under the Sustainable Jobs Act. At a glance it reads like a press release for the government's current economic agenda, hoping to find some genuine new policies for advancing pro-worker climate action...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The promise and peril of data centres in Canada is a subject the CCPA will be diving into more this year, so stay tuned for that research.' @hadrianmk.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Over 78k children under the age of 18 in Saskatchewan were in poverty in 2023, a child poverty rate of 27.1%. This is well above Canada’s national child poverty rate of 18.3% and is the highest child poverty rate of all the provinces' @policyalternatives.ca

ICYMI, this @policyalternatives.ca webinar is worth your time Drs. Woolhandler & Himmelstein—international experts on for-profit health care & insurance—in conversation w/ me about the grave risk of US health care coming to Canada via Alberta, and how we fight back www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQn...

B.C. budget’s hidden austerity and tax increases put fiscal burden on low-income households BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli

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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Observers are awaiting further details of Canada’s cuts to global health...but the government remains tight-lipped even on assuaging fears about helping people caught in the most vulnerable of circumstances' @policyalternatives.ca

“It’s a problem that’s been decades in the making. It’s absolutely an indication of the abject failure of this [user pay] model.”

‘Toronto ninth-grader Aisha Ab Shukor says textbooks are “so much easier to flip through and get information,” and digital tools are “quite janky” and difficult to navigate. And when she’s working on a screen, links and additional resources are distracting’

openpolicyontario.com/cutting-old-... ‘Economic stewardship is not proven by singling out seniors. It is proven by aligning revenues, benefits, and risks coherently across the life course — including the underinsured risks of aging that households quietly absorb today.’

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘If Canada is serious about restructuring its economy in the face of threats from the U.S. and global instability, we need to take control of our own regulatory apparatus. Otherwise, the risk of disaster on the horizon looms larger.’ @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'If the Supreme Court decision contributes to American doubts about the effectiveness of Trump’s trade wars...Canada and Mexico will benefit from time. If the Trump administration responds by withdrawing from CUSMA, we’re into a different conversation...'

'the Ford govt’s sharpened financial degradation of public universities is more likely to accelerate the privatization process for better-endowed universities while elsewhere precipitating class streaming, quality cuts, program closings, & increased regional disparity' thewalrus.ca/inside-doug-...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'As Canadians begin to experience their own data centre boom—driven by the computing needs of AI and the need for data sovereignty—we need to understand what we are getting into & what questions to ask when we invite data centres to be our neighbours.'

Violent extremism is certainly a problem bearing on public health--but does public health have a role in addressing it? My reflections after 2 yrs of learning. @cpnprev.bsky.social @perilresearch.bsky.social @isdglobal.bsky.social @milleridriss.bsky.social

“I believe that students will focus and be more accountable if they have investments into their education, if their parents have investments in their education, they’re going to focus on it, they aren’t going to drop out.” Gah. globalnews.ca/news/1167114...

“I think we could have asked the wealthiest British Columbians to contribute more, because we’re not all in the same boat.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @marclee.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘IRCC plans to make asylum seekers pay more for prescription drugs and also cover 30% of expenses like dental care. This is what will represent roughly half of the cuts IRCC plans to implement.’ @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... “A budget that managed to alienate everybody” @marclee.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

"With the recent move to push aside the elected Peel District School Board, seven boards are now under direct provincial control.... Collectively, these boards serve more than 718,000 students – nearly 35 per cent of Ontario’s publicly funded student population." #OntEd

‘key spending areas have been given very small budget increases, spread over the 3 yr fiscal plan, which mean real cuts to services. In addition, the BC govt’s tax increases will hit low- to moderate income households. Put together, the budget lays the burden of austerity on the poorest in BC’

BC's Finance Minister says "this is not an austerity budget." Let's look at the numbers and see for ourselves. By @marclee.bsky.social and @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Public services in general are an investment in people and a wealthy society like BC needs more of the care economy and less digital baubles. A lot of other infrastructure spending supports households and large and small businesses.’ @policyalternatives.ca

“You’re picking basket-weaving courses, and there’s not too many baskets being sold out there.” The hell?? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Canadian unity must be based in a national industrial policy that supports the material interests of working class Canadians, and critical sections of business must adhere to it.' @policyalternatives.ca

😢♥️✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... “There are the people getting layoff notices, the people being told they might get laid off &…everybody else…wondering if they’ll be next. They’re going to be a lot more nervous about making big purchases” @policyalternatives.ca @davidmaccdn.bsky.social

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Government regulation is not the whole solution, but it has a large role to play. The tech sector will not take responsibility for protecting the public good in the face of such profound disruption.’ @hadrianmk.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘We are trading our workers, our public services, and our climate future for a seat at a table where the rules are written by Wall Street and financed by petro-autocracies.’ @policyalternatives.ca

www.lakesideleader.com/albertas-bil... ‘The report highlights how Bill 11 not only introduces private insurance for medically necessary procedures, but also unbundles hospital care, opens the door to user fees, and redefines “hospital” in ways that permit for-profit operators to enter the system’

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'If one thing is clear, its that Canada cannot import its way to a net-zero future. It must build it here at home.' @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'A planning document that does not plan for BC meeting its legislated GHG targets is not a complete plan. A truly integrated approach to BC electricity is needed given multiple objectives & potentially large affordability impacts' @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... '2025 [FAO] report found that ON spends $5,092 less per FT domestic college student than the Cdn average, & $6,510 less per FT domestic university student. The new funding doesn’t even get close to addressing this embarrassing gap' @policyalternatives.ca

Economist @marclee.bsky.social is skeptical that Vancouver — or Canada — will get the bank. “...It looks to me like a government that’s just completely devoid of any vision of what to do around the economy and it’s just grasping at straws.” @policyalternatives.ca #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

'Israel’s foreign ministry justified its financial “cooperation with the Exigent Foundation” on the basis that it is a “Canadian organization with access to influential audiences and experience in developing effective public diplomacy approaches.”'

Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger. I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca

globalnews.ca/news/1166455... 'Colleges Ontario has said its members have already cut at least $1.8 billion, suspended 600 programs and shed 8,000 jobs.'

Important thread from my colleague @alonghurst.bsky.social: is AB's new 2-tiered health care system European? Fact check incoming..... @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'The greatest unsaid risk is that we do nothing—and allow the U.S. to systematically destroy all independent countries in the region, and have no one behind us when they come for us.' @policyalternatives.ca

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'the AB government argues that dual physician practice brings AB’s health system closer to those in much of western Europe and Australia...Let’s take a look at these claims in detail.' @policyalternatives.ca @alonghurst.bsky.social

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Though federal policymakers have developed many non-binding frameworks around AI, Canada lacks binding AI regulation, leaving Canadians without proper protections against AI harms to privacy and human rights.' @policyalternatives.ca