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The folly of Ontario’s nuclear power play

The Ontario government’s announcement last week of its intention to pursue the refurbishment of the Pickering B nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Ontario between Toronto and Pickering represents a strategic triumph for the provincially owned Ontario Power Generation utility.

Questions about new ServiceOntario deal remain

Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery Todd McCarthy announced on Monday that nine privately run ServiceOntario locations will be moving into Staples Canada stores this year.

Ontario’s high-cost and high-emissions approach to electricity

The Ford government announced last month its intention to procure 2,000 megawatts (MW) of new electricity supplies from renewable sources, including wind, solar and hydro by 2030, with a potential for another 3,000MW by 2034.  

Canada lags behind on efforts to address human rights abuses in seafood supply chains

Seafood has become a source of concern for consumers who pay attention to the environmental and social impacts of what they buy. Climate change is adversely affecting ocean ecosystems, and a series of widely publicized scandals have exposed widespread illegal fishing and awful working conditions in both fishing and seafood processing.

How ‘benevolent sexism’ undermines Asian women with foreign accents in the workplace

Immigrants are critical to the Canadian economy, but their talents are under-utilized due to language and accent discrimination, as immigrants often come from non-English or French speaking countries. Workers with non-native or foreign accents are often discriminated against at work, yet our understanding of this phenomenon is limited because research on this topic has predominantly focused on […]