91şÚÁĎÍř News - alexandra ages /channels/news_feeds/all/term/alexandra%20ages/rss en Alexandra Ages on Canada's Rental Crisis | Maclean's /channels/channels/news/alexandra-ages-canadas-rental-crisis-macleans-372107 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>March 24, 2026 | In a feature for Maclean's, Alexandra Ages MPP'21 reflects on her experience of Canada's increasingly precarious rental market.</p> <p>Through a personal account of housing instability across multiple cities, she highlights the structural challenges facing renters, including aging housing stock and limited policy attention. Ages argues that current housing policy continues to prioritize homeownership, leaving renters increasingly insecure. She underscores the need for reforms that improve stability and housing quality across the country.</p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:26:01 +0000 webfull 217043 at /channels Alexandra Ages on Big Tech’s Growing Power and the Urgent Need for Digital Rights and Worker Protections | Perspectives Journal /channels/channels/news/alexandra-ages-big-techs-growing-power-and-urgent-need-digital-rights-and-worker-protections-365141 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>February 26, 2025 | MPP ’21 Alexandra Ages examines the growing concentration of power held by big tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Google, highlighting their expanding influence not only in politics and geopolitics but also in everyday life through data commodification, surveillance, and labor exploitation. She underscores the urgent need for stronger regulations to protect personal privacy, ensure workers’ rights, and prevent the erosion of democratic accountability in the face of a digital oligarchy that increasingly shapes society and governance.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/perspectives_journal.png?itok=QaMdy4Q_" width="160" height="55" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:02:32 +0000 webfull 208988 at /channels Alexandra Ages on the Urgent Need for a National Gender-Based Violence Commissioner in Canada | Policy Options /channels/channels/news/alexandra-ages-urgent-need-national-gender-based-violence-commissioner-canada-policy-options-365140 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>February 18, 2025 | MPP '21 Alexandra Ages writes how the alarming rise in intimate-partner violence and femicide across Canada, emphasizing that urgent action and accountability are needed to address this crisis. She argues that appointing a national gender-based violence commissioner would provide crucial oversight and help ensure effective implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/policy_options.png?itok=pJgvK7xF" width="160" height="50" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:56:31 +0000 webfull 208987 at /channels Alexandra Ages on the Impact of Alberta's Bill 27 on consent education in schools | Policy Options /channels/channels/news/alexandra-ages-impact-albertas-bill-27-consent-education-schools-policy-options-362552 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>December 12, 2024 | Alumna Alexandra Ages, MPP'21, wrote an article for <a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/alberta-consent-law/">Policy Options</a> examining the implications of Alberta’s Bill 27 on sexual health education.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/121224_alberta_bill_27.jpg?itok=iKCdlCDJ" width="160" height="90" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">14 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:49:31 +0000 webfull 205921 at /channels The Emergencies Act is Dead | Canadian Science Policy Centre /channels/channels/news/emergencies-act-dead-canadian-science-policy-centre-329103 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>February 10, 2021 | As each province deals with their respective struggles in healthcare capacity, vaccination rates, travel restrictions, and other COVID-19 related policies, the federal government weighs the possibility declaring a national crisis. Take a look at what Max Bell School alumni Anil Wasif, Alexandra Ages, Ellen Rowe, and Leonardo Lozano have to say about the evolving landscape of federal pandemic policy in Canada. </p> <p><a href="https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/the-emergencies-act-is-dead/">Read the article</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/screen-shot-2021-02-10-at-8.04.24-pm.png?itok=I30OCfbC" width="160" height="106" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">23 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:48:26 +0000 webfull 168438 at /channels