• Is The OAS/GIS Program Unaffordable?

    No. Of course not. Even if the government waves around scary large increases in nominal dollar terms. As has been widely reported, the most recent OAS…

  • Budget Cuts Could Worsen Rising Unemployment

    It was not a happy new year for Canadian job seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that unemployment rose for a fourth consecutive month in January. Overall employment…

  • Harper vs. Kyoto: where does that leave Québec?

    On 12 December 2011, the Canadian Minister of Environment, Peter Kent, officially announced Canada’s withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. In effect, Canada will no longer…

  • Federal cuts could push unemployment to 8%

    Last Monday, the CCPA released my paper, The Cuts Behind the Curtain, which examined some possible scenarios for how the conservative government might cut $6 billion from…

  • Raising the OAS Eligibility Age Would Raise Poverty in Old Age

    Table 1: OAS/GIS Contributions to the Income of Seniors (2006)   OAS OAS / GIS / Allowance       Age 66 26% 34% Age…

  • Do Canadians know how increasing numbers of temporary foreign workers is changing immigration?

    During the fall of 2011 the Conservative government announced and implemented a number of dramatic changes to the Canadian immigration system, including attempts to speed-up…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2012

    Every Tool Shapes the Task “In thinking about this issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, I took an inspiration from Battleground Schools. It is an encyclopaedia…

  • Delaying Retirement: What does it mean for younger workers?

    Since the announcement that his government was considering raising the eligibility age for Old Age Security (OAS), Stephen Harper has backed off slightly, assuring the public…

  • Grey Power

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…

  • Book Review: The Strength of Women

    Indigenous women survive, flourish, work for needed change The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak, Priscilla Settee, Coteau Books, Regina, 2011. * * * “There is a…

  • The Future of Health Care

    Medicare must be preserved and made truly comprehensive There are two fundamentally competing visions that seek to shape the next stage of health care in…

  • Militarizing Canadian Culture

    Our government and media not just excusing war, but glorifying it “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” —British historian E.P. Thompson. *…