for 2024-25 and $30.6 billion from 2025-26 through 2028-29 more than the 2023 Fall Economic Statement (FES) projection, including $10 billion in the next five years for defence, $8.5 billion for a range of housing initiatives, and $4.8 billion for the new Canada Disability Benefit. Meanwh...
Funny things begin to happen as we approach the leap from renter to homeowner. Suddenly, cost-benefit calculations we were doing about third bedrooms or fancy kitchens fly out the window… only the best will do for our “forever home” after all. Weird mantras like,“We’ll grow into it,...
house prices were driven in the past by big spikes in the price of oil and hopes in Canada’s oil patch for instant riches. But that hasn’t been the case since 2007, which was when the last oil-powered housing bubble peaked and then imploded. ...
create a dental care benefit for most kids under the age of 12, and offer a one-time top-up of $500 to a national low-income renters’ allowance.
The remaining 60% of Nunavummiut live in public housing managed by the NHC. A different subsidy offers flat rate electricity at CAD$0.06/kWh (2017 rate) to all tenants in all communities, except NHC staff who benefit from a 70–80% rent subsidy instead [27]. In public housing, the ...
Neo-liberal reforms (both the reductions in public services and programs and channeling of public money into military, financial, oil and gas and other ventures that disproportionately benefit select private players, reinforces the divide between those with power and resources and those without. From...
As Lee [18] argues, ‘poor people and people of colour are benefitting the least and paying the most for this society’s wasteful dependency on fossil fuels, and nuclear power, and from the resulting air pollution’ ([18], p. 1). Household energy consumption is tied to income; for ...