In a challenging funding landscape, arts organizations and coalitions are making a case for more investment in terms of economic return. According to this new index, arts density also has a significant impact on connection and belonging in Canadian communities.
Use of BC Rent Banks jumped 13 per cent in just one year. Despite rising demand, no new funding has been committed beyond April 1, putting support for vulnerable renters at risk.
Canada has no binding framework defining when AI companies must escalate violent-risk disclosures, leaving private firms to make clinical-style threat assessments they’re not trained or mandated to perform. The Tumbler Ridge tragedy shows how this vacuum leaves both the public and frontline responders without a clear, accountable safety pathway.
