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No Excuse for Inequality
Canada can easily afford to create a truly just society Five years ago, I went looking for statistical proof that poverty in Canada was inexcusable…
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Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger
Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through…
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Free to grow or free to fail? Emerging science raises questions about health of our future forests
As tree-planting company representatives from across British Columbia gather in Kelowna for a conference this week, a lot of attention will focus on the question…
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Ontario’s Deficit Quandary
When Politics Trump Economics Download 246.47 KB10 pages As it prepares its budget for 2011 — an election year — the Ontario government faces a…
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Exploiting Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Benefits?
Download 1.24 MB 37 pages The debate over the future of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. has been limited to the issue of which…
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Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Really Benefits? Report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Regina — The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office today released Exploiting Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Benefits? by John W.…
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Cost of Poverty in Prince Edward Island
Download 360.76 KB7 pages It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in PEI is at minimum between $240 and $320 million per year,…
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Poverty costs PEI over $240 million a year
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. CHARLOTTETOWN/HALIFAX–It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in Prince Edward Island is at minimum between $240 and $320…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2011, Volume 14, Number 1 Download 1.89 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Cuts to Forest Service are too Deep by Ben Parfitt How BC’s…
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CCPA Review: Critics of Hydro/Government plans for Bipole III lack credibility
Last month the Winnipeg Free Press published a full page of criticism regarding the decision to run the Bipole III transmission line down the West…
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Over a decade, average BC wages fall below Canadian average
Every week the government publication BC Stats Infoline publishes a summary of usually pretty interesting things going on in British Columbia. They have a nice…
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The problems with the textbook analysis of minimum wages
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorry state of the BC minimum wage, stuck at $8 after nine years two months and still…
