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“Unfree” Farm Labour in British Columbia?
The sudden firing and repatriation of 14 Mexican agricultural workers from an Abbotsford greenhouse earlier this month once again highlights the exploitive nature of Canada’s…
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Where Are the Women?
Gender Equity, Budgets and Canadian Public Policy Download 206.23 KB146 pages Contemporary Canadian fiscal and social policy reforms have been accompanied by the progressive disappearance…
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The Conservative government’s record comes under fire in new e-book
OTTAWA—Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released The Harper Record, the most comprehensive analysis of the Conservative minority government’s record to date. “Scheduled…
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The Harper Record
This book is one in a series of CCPA publications that have examined the records of Canadian federal governments during the duration of their tenure.…
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Canadian productivity declines for third consecutive quarter
Harper government first in Canada to oversee negative productivity growth READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The Harper government has become the first elected federal administration…
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Poverty and Social Exclusion
Solving Complex Issues through Comprehensive Approaches Download 248.91 KB 4 pages About the authorShauna MacKinnon
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Canada’s Productivity Performance Under the Stephen Harper Government
About the authorJim StanfordJim Stanford is an economist and the director of the Centre for Future Work.
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Dwindling access to drinking water on Canadian university campuses: Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Water fountains are becoming an endangered species on university campuses across Canada. That’s one of the findings of…
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Corporate Initiatives on Campus
A 2008 Snapshot Download 656.16 KB8 pages About the authorsCUPEPolaris Institute Research DepartmentsErika ShakerErika (she/her) became Director of the National Office in 2020, but began…
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BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2008, Volume 11, Number 3 Download 428.38 KB8 pages Inside this issue: Harvest of Shame: Cultivating Farmworker Rights Living on Welfare Denying Income Inequality…
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Septmeber 2008: Tips for consultants
Here’s how to fool most of the people most of the time With an alarmed public increasingly holding government and industry to account for a…
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September 2008: The WTO Doha Round Breakdown
Developing nations are blamed, but they blame the U.S. The World Trade Organization’s meeting in Geneva in July, as it opened, was described by WTO…




