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How do we get people to care about climate change? Push hard, push fast, and don’t stop
Many are deliberately tuning out the news — protecting their mental health, managing eco-anxiety, and shielding themselves from vicarious trauma.
Impact measurement method that aggregates metrics for large portfolios open for input
Explainer: What the social sector should know about Carney’s Spring Economic Update
Measures announced include a permanent employee ownership tax incentive, a simpler application process for the Disability Tax Credit, and a reduction in Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions.
Canadian impact investing products growing, concentrated in real estate and climate
CCNDR to expand cybersecurity resources for non-profits with new CoLab
In a recent survey of 8,000 non-profits, CCNDR also found that equity-denied organizations face significant barriers in digital skills and training.
Explainer: What Canada’s new national sovereign wealth fund means for the social sector (and why it’s different than the other one)
The new fund could reshape national investment priorities, and the social sector has a stake in how it’s defined
Ottawa to help build 1,100 rental units through Build Canada Homes
Province-wide pet-friendly rentals could reduce homelessness: B.C. advocates
B.C. advocates urge the provincial government to prohibit pet bans in tenancy agreements.
This former Quebec solidarity minister’s message about who really drives social reform
Social progress occurs when the government recognizes checks and balances, she says.
Earth Day Q&A: Happiness in a finite world
Over the last ten years, Canada’s per capita footprint has declined, but so has Canadians’ life satisfaction.
Growing provincial use of notwithstanding clause a risk to Canadian human rights: Amnesty International
The notwithstanding clause has been invoked by provinces looking to push ahead with their agendas on religious symbols, the rights of transgender youth, and to prevent strike action.
Public grocery stores won’t fix Canada’s food affordability crisis
There are better ways to deal with this crisis than trying to put together public infrastructure from scratch.
Why ‘safe spaces’ at work fail – and how to fix it
Fostering belonging isn’t difficult, but it does take some understanding of how people’s brains work and how we are likely to interact with each other.
What compassion looks like in Sudan’s humanitarian crisis
“We have so much, they have so little, yet that woman shared her care for humanity by giving her very best.”
Toronto’s rooming houses: Opaque ownership, invisible displacement
Private landlords and non-profits provide affordable housing in the form of multi-tenant homes. While there is a lot of opacity around private providers, housing advocates say it’s imperative to support them in their transition to the City of Toronto’s new licensing framework, and thus maintain a stock of safe, secure multi-tenant housing.

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