The University of Ghana and 91亚色 have partnered in an IDRC Women RISE initiative supporting action-oriented and gender-transformative research on how women's health and their work intersect and interact in the context of preparedness, response and recovery from COVID-19. Women RISE鈥痠s aligned with priority 3.5 of the United Nations Research Roadmap for COVID-19 Recovery on […]
Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. Economic growth should be a positive force for the planet. SDG 8 promotes sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth coupled with decent and fulfilling employment for all. EUC researchers are investigating the intersections between global labour rights and COVID-19 to […]
Retirement is not slowing growth for Professor Emeritus聽Peter Victor; in fact, the ecological economist who is best known for his influential book聽Managing Without Growth, is busier than ever with a new book on economist Herman Daly and an active research agenda. By Elaine Smith Peter Victor聽may have stepped down from his academic responsibilities at 91亚色 […]
At the site of a massive COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in southern Alberta, workers don鈥檛 want things to go back the way they were before. On a cold, windy November day, Freddy Vasquez cuts a small figure as the massive Cargill meat-processing plant near High River, Alta., looms behind him. "Now hiring," reads […]
By Prof. Mark Winfield Twenty-five years ago, Mike Harris鈥檚 鈥渃ommon sense revolution鈥 heralded a of shredding the province鈥檚 planning rules, and proposals for a network of highway expansions in every direction outward across the Greater Toronto Area. The government鈥檚 plans prompted a backlash. Harris鈥 approach was widely seen as a strategy for sprawling urban development that threatened the […]
A new international definition, endorsed by the UN, would leave some Canadian communities off the list 鈥 if the definition had any legal standing The good folks of Kelowna believe they live in a city. In fact, local tourism boosters bill the place as 鈥渢he largest city in British Columbia鈥檚 Okanagan Valley.鈥 But under a […]