Our first webinar of 2024 took place on January 25 and featured Ricardo Tranjan and David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives who discussed how housing is affected by markets. The webinar is now available for viewing on our YouTube channel.
Join us on January 31, 2024 for our first webinar of the New Year. Ricardo Tranjan and David MacDonald will discuss whether the current housing market is a failure or a success concerning how it impacts access to affordable, accessible housing. Ricardo Tranjan’s 2023 bestseller book, The Tenant Class, has generated much attention and controversy in public policy circles.… Continue Reading Unaffordable Housing: Market Failure or Market Success
Firdaus Kharas was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for advancing social change through human-centered media as a social entrepreneur, humanitarian, and mass-communications producer. Mr. Kharas has created media for social change used in 198 countries. His topics in 80 series of media have included human rights, refugees, violence reduction, and disease prevention.
One of G78’s members, Lawrence Cumming, crafted an articulate letter to the Canadian Prime Minister, as well as other Ministers. You can download the letter from this link. You can read it when you open it in Adobe Acrobat.
Statement by the Group of 78 – October 28, 2023Adopted by the Board of Directors by a strong majority with one objection. The Middle East region, and more specifically, the geographic region that includes Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon has once again been ravaged by acts of violence that have been met by further acts of violence, much of which is… Continue Reading The Israel-Hamas War and our priorities: A call for Immediate Ceasefire and renewed priorities on Human Support and Peace Talks
We’ve been busy since the conference officially ended on Monday, downloading, editing, and uploading the webinars to YouTube. Our playlist is accessible through the button below.
The conference is over, but our work is not. With thanks to our moderators, speakers, and rapporteurs for their work during our 2023 Conference, we are busy crafting our report that will outline our recommendations for policy related to Preventing and Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict. Look for it on our website and social media soon!
We warmly invite you to join our dialog for our 2023 Annual Policy Conference from September 25 to October 2. Our theme is Preventing & Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict. For full information please click the button below.
In 2009, a paper in Nature attempted to calculate how much of the world’s reserves of oil, gas, and coal would have to stay in the ground to hold rates of climate change to tolerable levels. Financiers and investors quickly realized the shattering implications: Companies and countries that thought they were sitting on the energy equivalent of goldmines were likely… Continue Reading Watch the webinar: Anti-Inflation Policy, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
As geopolitical shifts and emerging uncertainties continue to drive up debt servicing costs across the world, with disproportionate impacts across poor and vulnerable countries, economic systems in much of the Global South are under severe stress. From Sri Lanka and Ghana to Lebanon and Zambia, tightening global financial conditions are wreaking havoc across several emerging markets and developing economies. The situation is particularly dire in the… Continue Reading Watch the webinar: Inequities in the Global Financial System: Tackling the Looming Debt Crisis in the Global South