• Income inequality: One of the great challenges of our times

    Income inequality isn’t just about salaries—it’s a pervasive problem with dire implications on a range of social issues, from health to the environment to education.

  • Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians

    First published in The Conversation February 28, 2023 Real estate is a hot topic in Canada. Most Canadians are acutely aware of how home prices…

  • To understand what racial capitalism means, read Black Marxism

    Cedric Robinson’s work is foundational for social movements.

  • The Monitor, March/April 2023

    CCPA Monitor Mar Apr 2023.PDFDownload

  • Province can tackle fossil-flation with local clean energy

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press February 24, 2023   With the price of gas, groceries, utilities, mortgages and rent all up, Manitobans are…

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    Does the global “loss and damages” fund negotiated at COP27 offer lessons for BC?

    The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) ended last November with an historic agreement to establish a “loss and damages” fund to address the impacts…

  • Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?

    The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…

  • Is “sustainable jobs” the new just transition?

    Shift Storm newsletter—February 2023 edition

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives…

  • Introducing the Shift Storm newsletter

    A Q&A with CCPA climate researcher Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

  • Does Canada’s Sustainable Jobs Plan deliver on the promise of a just transition?

    The interim Sustainable Jobs Plan is a solid framework for advancing a workforce development agenda, but there are important sticking points.

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    Big challenges and opportunities for the BC budget

    British Columbia is facing big social and environmental challenges ahead of Budget 2023: sky high rents, health care under enormous strain, a toxic drugs crisis,…