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Loop – 4 Col Blog Index w/Feature Alt

Loop – 4 Col Blog Index w/Feature Alt

December 9, 2023

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  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    Inclusive Economy
    Labour & Worker’s Rights
    News & Commentary

    Don’t be fooled by the “productivity” panic in Canada

    Canada is facing an affordability crisis. But instead of confronting the root causes, political leaders have turned to an old culprit: low productivity. If we…

    July 21, 2025
  • Democracy
    Monitor Print
    The Monitor

    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,…

    July 2, 2025
  • Annual Reports

    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,…

    July 1, 2025
  • Democracy
    The Monitor
    The Monitor – Full Issues

    The Monitor – Summer 2025

    These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to safeguard our democracy.

    July 1, 2025
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    Digital Divide & Internet Policy
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    Tax Policy
    Trade

    Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax?

    A lot doesn’t sit right about the Carney government’s capitulation to U.S. president Trump on the stillborn Digital Services Tax (DST), which would have taxed…

    June 30, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    Housing & Homelessness
    News & Commentary

    How Toronto tenants took on their landlords—and won—with rent strikes

    Canada is in the middle of a housing crisis that is disproportionately affecting the most economically precarious renters. In 2022, a report found that in…

    June 30, 2025
  • Federal Budgets
    News & Commentary

    Liberals will need to rethink their promised budget cuts

    The Liberal campaign platform promised big public sector “productivity” savings, but if you compare it to federal data, a concerning picture emerges. Some key highlights:

    June 30, 2025
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    Climate Change
    Energy Policy
    News & Commentary

    Northern pipeline the wrong nation-building plan

    The Western Canadian climate-induced wildfires show that the time for action on climate is now. But earlier this month, the Premier of Mantioba pitched a…

    June 26, 2025
  • Events

    Errol Black Chair Fundraising Brunch 2025 November 2

    Keynote Speaker Peggy Nash, CCPA Executive Director Hotel Fort Garry, 222 Broadway, Winnipeg MB

    June 26, 2025
  • Illustration: Gina Gill
    Climate Change
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    Newsletters
    Shift Storm

    Who is Canada’s “climate king”?

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

    June 25, 2025
  • Lesbian couple embracing with son on lap at home
    Child Benefits
    Children & Youth
    Parental Leave
    Reports

    Soutien aux parents dans un monde postpandémie : Options pour améliorer le congé de maternité et le congé parental au palier fédéral

    Pour aider les jeunes familles à faire face au coût élevé de la vie et le ralentissement de l’économie le Canada doit améliorer le système de congé parental

    June 25, 2025
  • Lesbian couple embracing with son on lap at home
    Child Benefits
    Children & Youth
    Parental Leave
    Reports

    Support for parents in a post-pandemic world: Options for enhancing federal maternity and parental leave

    As young families confront a weakening economy and high cost of living Canada must improve its parental leave system

    June 25, 2025
  • 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
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  1. Don’t be fooled by the “productivity” panic in Canada
  2. Is the sun setting—or rising—on the CBC?
  3. CCPA annual report 2024
  4. The Monitor – Summer 2025
  5. Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax?
  6. How Toronto tenants took on their landlords—and won—with rent strikes
  7. Liberals will need to rethink their promised budget cuts
  8. Northern pipeline the wrong nation-building plan
  9. Errol Black Chair Fundraising Brunch 2025 November 2
  10. Who is Canada’s “climate king”?
  11. Soutien aux parents dans un monde postpandémie : Options pour améliorer le congé de maternité et le congé parental au palier fédéral
  12. Support for parents in a post-pandemic world: Options for enhancing federal maternity and parental leave
  13. Youth unemployment is approaching a boiling point in Ontario

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    Militarism and war
    News & Commentary

    Fact sheet: The Golden Dome and Canada

    The United States has proposed to develop the “Golden Dome,” the most ambitious missile defence system ever envisioned. The aim is to build a multi-layered…

    July 22, 2025
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    Income Inequality
    News & Commentary

    Time for a real poverty reduction strategy in Ontario

    The word “poverty” has been conspicuously absent from the Ontario government’s 2025 budget and any plans to “protect Ontario” from tariff-related uncertainty. This is bad…

    July 22, 2025
  • Militarism and war
    News & Commentary
    July 22, 2025

    Fact sheet: The Golden Dome and Canada

  • Income Inequality
    News & Commentary
    July 22, 2025

    Time for a real poverty reduction strategy in Ontario

  • Inclusive Economy
    Labour & Worker’s Rights
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    July 21, 2025

    Don’t be fooled by the “productivity” panic in Canada

  • Housing & Homelessness
    Manitoba
    News & Commentary
    July 21, 2025

    Housing isn’t just shelter

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