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Rosenbluth Lecture 2026: live at Vancouver’s Harbour Centre
This year’s Rosenbluth Lecture will feature authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks, who will take the stage with CCPA senior economist Marc Lee about their…
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The truth about the CBC in Northern Canada
Around dinner time on the evening of May 10, 2024, communication services in the Yukon—internet, cell phone, and landline—wavered, guttered like a struck match, and …
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The Liberals have a mandate to improve CBC funding—here’s the case for it
One of the key issues the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre, went into Canada’s spring federal election campaign cut to the heart of Canadiana:…
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Quality, not just quantity, of news outlets matter—especially in rural Canada
Communities in Canada—particularly smaller communities—are starving for local news coverage.
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The promise of social planning: revisiting the CBC’s Citizens Forum
During the spring federal election, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on claims that the CBC is out of touch—elitist, irrelevant, bloated. Whether or not…
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The case for a reimagined Radio Canada International
Imagine a service that anyone in the world can access for free. That not only provides accurate news about Canada but also world events and…
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Hennessy’s Index
“From its inception the CBC was intended to convey Canadian culture and to be an instrument of national unity. These objectives have been difficult to…
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Is the sun setting—or rising—on the CBC?
I was only a few years into my journalism career when the future began to visit the present. Newspapers were going through a hard time,…
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CCPA annual report 2024
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is Canada’s foremost progressive think tank. As an independent, non-profit research institute, we focus on issues of social,…
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How Toronto tenants took on their landlords—and won—with rent strikes
About the authorDiamond YaoDiamond Yao (she/her) is an independent writer/journalist from Montreal/Tio’tia:ke who focuses on contemporary social and environmental issues. She aims to bring underreported…
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Northern pipeline the wrong nation-building plan
About the authorMolly McCrackenMolly McCracken (she/her) is the Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba office. Her research and commentary focuses on social inclusion…
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Who is Canada’s “climate king”?
About the authorHadrian 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…
