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December 9, 2023

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  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Unemployment & Underemployment

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

    Canada is confronting a deepening youth employment emergency that policy-makers and political debates have largely overlooked, as a recent CCPA analysis highlighted. 

    June 17, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

    On June 6, Prime Minister Mark Carney tabled his much-anticipated “one Canadian economy” legislation that purports to help the government build nation-making projects and tear…

    June 11, 2025
  • Wildfires
    Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary

    To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan

    FACING a record-breaking heat wave in early May, Manitoba has had a devastating start to its unofficial fifth season — fire season — as wildfires…

    June 10, 2025
  • Neoliberalism
    Democracy & Electoral Rights
    Neoliberalism
    News & Commentary

    Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down

    Fears of the erosion of democracy pervade the headlines. The rise of authoritarian populists around the world, with Donald Trump being the most emblematic, has…

    June 10, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    Income Inequality
    News & Commentary

    Low income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever

    Canadian households spent an average of $76,750 on goods and services in 2023, a substantial increase of 14.3 per cent over 2021. This boost in spending was…

    June 6, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Public Services & Privatization

    Canada Post is a vital Canadian institution—why doesn’t the government act that way?

    On May 23, Canada Post workers once again entered a legal strike position. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) had previously been on strike…

    June 5, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Let’s call Bill 5 what it is—a power grab

    During Ontario’s February electoral campaign, Doug Ford capitalised on domestic and international stories which affectionately dubbed him “Captain Canada.” Donning a “Canada is Not for…

    June 5, 2025
  • Beyond Recovery
    COVID-19
    COVID-19
    Employment & Labour
    Employment & Labour
    Income/wages
    Income/wages
    Race & Anti-Racism
    Race & Anti-Racism
    Reports

    Still struggling: Racialized workers in the post-pandemic labour market

    Racialized workers in Canada faced extra challenges during the pandemic. The recovery has been equally difficult.

    June 3, 2025
  • Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary
    Newsletters
    Shift Storm

    Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction

    The following is a re-print of the April 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…

    May 28, 2025
  • The Red River
    Agriculture & Farming
    Environment & Sustainability
    Manitoba
    News & Commentary

    North Dakota Cow Crap Will Harm Lake Winnipeg

    Massive dairy concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) being permitted and proposed in North Dakota are a threat to our waterways, including Lake Winnipeg and the…

    May 27, 2025
  • Image: iStock
    Education
    News & Commentary
    Provincial Budgets

    Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018

    The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the…

    May 23, 2025
  • Image source: iStock
    Artificial Intelligence
    News & Commentary

    Do you trust AI to deliver your EI?

    This week Prime Minister Mark Carney announced MP Evan Solomon as Canada’s first “minister for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital innovation.” There is no doubt…

    May 15, 2025
  • Photo: Hai Phung (via Unsplash)
    Elections & Politics
    Federal Election
    Manitoba
    News & Commentary

    What might the federal election results mean for Manitoba?

    Photo by Hai Phung on Unsplash

    May 2, 2025
  • Health Equity
    News & Commentary

    Working toward reproductive justice in Manitoba

    Imagine walking into a pharmacy and picking up birth control without a second thought about cost. For many people in Manitoba, this became a reality…

    April 7, 2025
  • homeless boy holding a cardboard house, dirty hand
    British Columbia
    Cities
    Infrastructure
    Municipalities
    News Release

    Infrastructure costs an excuse to ban apartments on residential land, but are actually cheaper for high-density housing, new research shows

    VANCOUVER — In the midst of a housing crisis, infrastructure costs are used increasingly as an excuse for restrictive zoning policies in BC, which effectively…

    January 15, 2025
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Municipalities & Urban Development
    News & Commentary
    Policy Note

    Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban

    Takeaways:  Opponents of building more homes in British Columbia, and especially denser, lower-cost options like apartments, often wield the argument that their communities lack the…

    January 15, 2025
  • silver watch laying on a white surface
    Health Care
    Reports

    No Time to Wait

    In any public discussion of health care in Canada, the question of wait-times will inevitably come to the fore. For many, wait-times have come to…

    October 21, 2024
  • Employment & Labour
    Income Inequality
    Living Wage
    Reports

    2023 Living Wage for Regina and Saskatoon

    The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ living wage calculation for Regina and Saskatoon is a little different from past years. That’s…

    October 15, 2024
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Unemployment & Underemployment

    Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

    Canada is confronting a deepening youth employment emergency that policy-makers and political debates have largely overlooked, as a recent CCPA analysis highlighted. 

    June 17, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 

    On June 6, Prime Minister Mark Carney tabled his much-anticipated “one Canadian economy” legislation that purports to help the government build nation-making projects and tear…

    June 11, 2025
  • Wildfires
    Climate Change
    Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary

    To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan

    FACING a record-breaking heat wave in early May, Manitoba has had a devastating start to its unofficial fifth season — fire season — as wildfires…

    June 10, 2025
  • Neoliberalism
    Democracy & Electoral Rights
    Neoliberalism
    News & Commentary

    Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down

    Fears of the erosion of democracy pervade the headlines. The rise of authoritarian populists around the world, with Donald Trump being the most emblematic, has…

    June 10, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    Income Inequality
    News & Commentary

    Low income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever

    Canadian households spent an average of $76,750 on goods and services in 2023, a substantial increase of 14.3 per cent over 2021. This boost in spending was…

    June 6, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Public Services & Privatization

    Canada Post is a vital Canadian institution—why doesn’t the government act that way?

    On May 23, Canada Post workers once again entered a legal strike position. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) had previously been on strike…

    June 5, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Regulation/Deregulation
    Trade

    Let’s call Bill 5 what it is—a power grab

    During Ontario’s February electoral campaign, Doug Ford capitalised on domestic and international stories which affectionately dubbed him “Captain Canada.” Donning a “Canada is Not for…

    June 5, 2025
  • Beyond Recovery
    COVID-19
    COVID-19
    Employment & Labour
    Employment & Labour
    Income/wages
    Income/wages
    Race & Anti-Racism
    Race & Anti-Racism
    Reports

    Still struggling: Racialized workers in the post-pandemic labour market

    Racialized workers in Canada faced extra challenges during the pandemic. The recovery has been equally difficult.

    June 3, 2025
  • Environment & Sustainability
    News & Commentary
    Newsletters
    Shift Storm

    Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction

    The following is a re-print of the April 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…

    May 28, 2025
  • The Red River
    Agriculture & Farming
    Environment & Sustainability
    Manitoba
    News & Commentary

    North Dakota Cow Crap Will Harm Lake Winnipeg

    Massive dairy concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) being permitted and proposed in North Dakota are a threat to our waterways, including Lake Winnipeg and the…

    May 27, 2025
  • Image: iStock
    Education
    News & Commentary
    Provincial Budgets

    Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018

    The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the…

    May 23, 2025
  • Image source: iStock
    Artificial Intelligence
    News & Commentary

    Do you trust AI to deliver your EI?

    This week Prime Minister Mark Carney announced MP Evan Solomon as Canada’s first “minister for artificial intelligence (AI) and digital innovation.” There is no doubt…

    May 15, 2025
  • Photo: Hai Phung (via Unsplash)
    Elections & Politics
    Federal Election
    Manitoba
    News & Commentary

    What might the federal election results mean for Manitoba?

    Photo by Hai Phung on Unsplash

    May 2, 2025
  • Health Equity
    News & Commentary

    Working toward reproductive justice in Manitoba

    Imagine walking into a pharmacy and picking up birth control without a second thought about cost. For many people in Manitoba, this became a reality…

    April 7, 2025
  • homeless boy holding a cardboard house, dirty hand
    British Columbia
    Cities
    Infrastructure
    Municipalities
    News Release

    Infrastructure costs an excuse to ban apartments on residential land, but are actually cheaper for high-density housing, new research shows

    VANCOUVER — In the midst of a housing crisis, infrastructure costs are used increasingly as an excuse for restrictive zoning policies in BC, which effectively…

    January 15, 2025
  • Housing & Homelessness
    Municipalities & Urban Development
    News & Commentary
    Policy Note

    Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban

    Takeaways:  Opponents of building more homes in British Columbia, and especially denser, lower-cost options like apartments, often wield the argument that their communities lack the…

    January 15, 2025
  • silver watch laying on a white surface
    Health Care
    Reports

    No Time to Wait

    In any public discussion of health care in Canada, the question of wait-times will inevitably come to the fore. For many, wait-times have come to…

    October 21, 2024
  • Employment & Labour
    Income Inequality
    Living Wage
    Reports

    2023 Living Wage for Regina and Saskatoon

    The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ living wage calculation for Regina and Saskatoon is a little different from past years. That’s…

    October 15, 2024
  • Image: iStock
    News & Commentary
    Trade

    Canada must not implement Ecuador free trade deal, say civil society organizations

    We urge you to reconsider this trade agreement and to prioritize the protection of human rights, environmental sustainability, and the rights of Indigenous peoples. There must…

    June 9, 2025
  • News & Commentary
    Trade

    As the U.S. drops the ball on forced labour, Canada must pick it up

    Almost five years after Canada’s July 2020 ban on importing goods produced using forced labour, we have very little to show for it. Canadian Border…

    June 4, 2025
  • Labour & Worker’s Rights
    News & Commentary
    Trade

    Canada’s private sector workers need labour law reform

    For private sector unions, the overarching trend of the last forty years has been one of decline. The rise of neoliberalism during the 1980s ushered…

    May 28, 2025
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article contents
  1. Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario
  2. Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 
  3. To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan
  4. Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down
  5. Low income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever
  6. Canada Post is a vital Canadian institution—why doesn’t the government act that way?
  7. Let’s call Bill 5 what it is—a power grab
  8. Still struggling: Racialized workers in the post-pandemic labour market
  9. Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction
  10. North Dakota Cow Crap Will Harm Lake Winnipeg
  11. Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018
  12. Do you trust AI to deliver your EI?
  13. What might the federal election results mean for Manitoba?
  14. Working toward reproductive justice in Manitoba
  15. Infrastructure costs an excuse to ban apartments on residential land, but are actually cheaper for high-density housing, new research shows
  16. Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban
  17. No Time to Wait
  18. 2023 Living Wage for Regina and Saskatoon
  19. Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario
  20. Federal “one Canadian economy” legislation is a power grab 
  21. To fight wildfires and heat waves, Manitoba needs a climate plan
  22. Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down
  23. Low income families in Canada have less disposable income than ever
  24. Canada Post is a vital Canadian institution—why doesn’t the government act that way?
  25. Let’s call Bill 5 what it is—a power grab
  26. Still struggling: Racialized workers in the post-pandemic labour market
  27. Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction
  28. North Dakota Cow Crap Will Harm Lake Winnipeg
  29. Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018
  30. Do you trust AI to deliver your EI?
  31. What might the federal election results mean for Manitoba?
  32. Working toward reproductive justice in Manitoba
  33. Infrastructure costs an excuse to ban apartments on residential land, but are actually cheaper for high-density housing, new research shows
  34. Worried about Infrastructure Costs? Then End the Apartment Ban
  35. No Time to Wait
  36. 2023 Living Wage for Regina and Saskatoon
  37. Canada must not implement Ecuador free trade deal, say civil society organizations
  38. As the U.S. drops the ball on forced labour, Canada must pick it up
  39. Canada’s private sector workers need labour law reform

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    On June 6, Prime Minister Mark Carney tabled his much-anticipated “one Canadian economy” legislation that purports to help the government build nation-making projects and tear…

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