housing

Students have been ignored for far too long, and it is time the city considers students in Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, says SFU student Ashley Holyk.

Why should REITs and corporate landlords be made whole through COVID-19 when so many other businesses are taking losses?

Tenant rights advocates say rules Ontario’s Ford government pushed through earlier in the pandemic and harried bureaucrats looking to clear a backlog have created a disturbing trend denying tenants access to justice in virtual eviction hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board.

Fifteen cities will share $500 million in federal funding so they can buy properties being sold because of the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to help keep people from becoming homeless.

Jenny Kwan, who represents the riding of Vancouver East, said she had started to notice that the housing situation in the city was not improving despite her Liberal counterparts saying the program was proceeding well during parliamentary sessions.

Financial security and independence can also play into household formation, which is commonly measured by a “headship” rate — the higher the rate, the more households within a population. Toronto's headship rate has fallen by six per cent between 1991 and 2016.

Critics say that a bill expected to lead to a mass wave of evictions in Ontario was made even more difficult for tenants to navigate this week.

B.C.'s minimum wage bump is inadequate, especially as low wage workers suffer the greatest impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, says economist Iglika Ivanova, of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Grocery store workers, cleaners or people working in the restaurants or food service are at increased risk when they go to work. And when they earn such low wages, it’s profoundly unfair."

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, November 14, 2019, where he will lay out his priorities in the hopes of using his party's position in a minority Parliament to get policies and laws that reflect New Democrat platform commitments.

New statistics released on Monday, September 16, 2019, show a slight dip in the number of people intercepted at the Canada-U.S. border last month trying to cross unofficially to claim asylum.

A new report argues that big investments in adaptation measures will not only avert environmental catastrophe but also reap significant returns.

The federal government has released its long-awaited policy on developing the Canadian Arctic in a changing environmental and political world.

Canada has been treating Indigenous issues as higher priorities since the last federal election but more work needs to be done, says Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde.

Newly released documents show senior government officials were advised to "bring the focus back to the majority" — instead of on diversity values — in public communications to counter the threat of populism in Canada.

Despite billions of dollars in new spending over the last four years, the federal Liberals' social-development minister concedes that seniors and families seeking housing and child care are still facing serious cost crunches.