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Still building: Child care availability in Toronto since 2022
Child care availability in Toronto has improved since 2022. But provincial funding is needed to expand access—especially in the non-profit sector.
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Turn off the taps? Alberta already has Vancouver over a barrel
Drivers in Metro Vancouver are reeling from record high gas prices, and many commentators are blaming taxes. Now, Alberta’s Premier-elect Jason Kenney is threatening to…
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Time for BC to regulate gas prices, end gouging by oil companies: CCPA economist
Price increase at pump largely going to industry coffers VANCOUVER—It’s time for BC to follow the Maritime provinces and regulate gas prices to end gouging…
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Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees
Download 871.6 KB 32 pages This work is an extension of a longer-term project that began in 2015, in which we partnered with Welcome Place,…
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The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet…
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Education funding: If it looks like a cut and it hurts like a cut, then it probably is a cut
How an increase becomes a cut The Ontario government will increase education funding by $1 billion over the next three years. If this sound okay,…
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Meeting the Needs of Sexually Exploited Youth
Building on the Work of the Sexually Exploited Youth Community Coalition Download 893.86 KB 44 pages Meeting the Needs of Sexually Exploited Youth The Sexually…
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The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba
What makes social housing ‘social’? In part, social housing is different from private-market housing because it intentionally provides low-cost housing for low-income households. But it…
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The truth about taxes
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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Action on Pay Equity: Does Canada’s new legislation deliver?
About the authorKatherine ScottKatherine serves as the director for the CCPA’s gender equality and public policy work. She has worked in the community sector…
