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Ontario students need smaller classes, not another EQAO review
Instead of chasing explanations for low test scores the government should reduce and cap class sizes in Ontario
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Rising inflation exposes the gap between the richest and poorest
The rapid rise in inflation in Canada—and around the world—is significantly cutting into household income. Inflation reached 7.7% this May, its highest level since 1983.
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Decent work: A shared vision
About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She is focused…
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Barriers and opportunities: How Canadian activists see degrowth
Degrowth is a social movement and field of research founded on the premise that perpetual economic growth is incompatible with the biophysical limits of our…
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What’s so bad about growth?
All of us are trained from an early age to be big fans of growth. We want children to grow. We want flowers to grow.…
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Canada’s fight against inflation: Bank of Canada could induce a recession
History tells us that the Bank of Canada has a 0% success rate in fighting inflation by quickly raising interest rates. If a pilot told…
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Making a living in Saskatchewan
This year the CCPA Saskatchewan office released our living wage calculations, hot on the heels of the provincial government’s decision to raise what is currently…
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Citizenship education: It’s about more than the curriculum
It’s been a few months since I defended my dissertation on provincial public education policies in Canada (particularly in relation to students and citizenship) and…
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Unearth this buried treasure: adult education in Manitoba
When she was 34 years old and a single mother of four living on social assistance in a large public housing complex in Winnipeg’s North…
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How public funding for private options reinforces school segregation in Quebec
Erika Shaker, in conversation with Anne Plourde, researcher at l’Institut de Recherche et d’Informations Socioéconomiques (IRIS)
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Could decolonizing policy redress environmental injustice and racism?
The Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) is the matriarch of environmental legislation in Canada. But it’s been over 20 years since it’s been revised. And…
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Bank of Canada has zero per cent success rate controlling inflation at present level without recession: analysis
Recession triggered in every instance over past 60 years READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada has never been successful engineering a “soft…
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Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2022
Imbalance Sheet: What we lose when we privatize public education This summer issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on how the privatization of our public schools has…
