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December 19, 2023

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  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    U.K. membership in Pacific trade deal threatens Canadian climate action

    Canada should join Australia and New Zealand in neutralizing lopsided corporate protections in CPTPP

    April 6, 2023
  • Response to Chief Smyth’s citation of CCPA MB published research

    On March 23th, 2023 Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth posted on the Winnipeg Police Service substack a statement in response to Fadi Ennab’s research on…

    April 6, 2023
  • Don’t wait for the state

    About the authorsHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…

    April 4, 2023
  • Don’t wait for the state: A blueprint for grassroots climate transitions in Canada

    The climate transition is urgent—and it’s increasingly clear that governments aren’t acting fast enough. How can communities, workers, and movements directly implement a transition? Download…

    April 4, 2023
  • Close up of Apartment for Rent sign on a fence in front of a house.

    Submission to Law Amendments on BILL NO. 262: Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act

    Submitted April 3rd, 2023, by Catherine Leviten-Reid and Christine Saulnier Download 296.86 KB4 pages Before the emergency pandemic cap and temporary extensions, Nova Scotia had…

    April 3, 2023
  • Beyond Recovery

    How Feminist is the 2023 Federal Budget? It isn’t.

    The tension between this federal government’s neoliberal economic roots and social justice ambitions has always been evident.

    March 30, 2023
  • Don’t wait for the state

    The climate transition is urgent—and it’s increasingly clear that governments aren’t acting fast enough. How can communities, workers, and movements directly implement a transition?

    March 30, 2023
  • Why Don’t We Just Care?

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 30, 2023 In “A Tale of Two Sentences” (March 18, 2023 Winnipeg Free Press) Dean Pritchard reports…

    March 30, 2023
  • A hit-and-miss budget: Canada’s 2023 federal budget moves on climate and dental—but avoids almost everything else

    Investments in a clean economy, dental care, and a GST top-up stole the show; many other needed investments have gone missing.

    March 28, 2023
  • Opposition Parties Need to Stand Firm Against Tax Cuts for the Rich

    The 2023 Manitoba budget proposes over half a billion dollars in tax cuts, but many Manitobans won’t see a dime, while the richest Manitobans will…

    March 28, 2023
  • Seven things Canada could do with an ambitious federal budget in 2023

    We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.

    March 27, 2023
  • US–Canada agreement to close Roxham Road will cost lives, migrants say

    Legal observers worry the newly-expanded Safe Third Country Agreement contravenes international conventions on refugees.

    March 25, 2023
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