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Carney’s initial “major projects” list disappoints. Where’s the industrial strategy?
About the authorHadrian Mertins-KirkwoodHadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) is a senior researcher and political economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His work focuses on federal…
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UNSPUN: Childcare and the Manitoba Election
Childcare is a surprisingly important election issue. It figured prominently in the 2015 federal election, and is playing a role in the 2016 Manitoba provincial…
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UNSPUN: Ask them about Manitoba’s Poorly Housed
What are provincial politicians going to do about poorly housed Manitobans? One third of Manitoba renters live in core housing need, meaning they spend over…
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alt.policy (Short 4)
Federal Budget 2016 + Reconciliation Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was completed in December 2015. Indigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Muller joins us to discuss reconciliation…
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UNSPUN: Student Issues are Election Issues
Lazy, entitled, apathetic, disengaged, these are just some of the words that are used to mis-categorize and label post-secondary students. The reality of the average…
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Ontario’s $15 minimum wage campaign just got a boost
via GIPHY About the authorTrish HennessyTrish is the Director of the Think Upstream project and a senior communications strategist with the CCPA National Office. She…
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Making Sense of the TPP
“Making Sense of the TPP,” a public event in Ottawa on April 1, 2016, featured presentations from Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Scott Sinclair (CCPA), Megan Sali…
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Fast Fasts: Federal Budget provides opportunities for social housing in Manitoba
Budget 2016 provides some welcome news for nearly 600,000 Canadian families who depend on social housing. The budget allocates $2.3 billion dollars over two years…
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UNSPUN: Poverty Policy Choices and Winnipeg’s Inner City
Provincial government policy can be designed to punish those in poverty, or to reduce poverty. Both approaches have been tried in Manitoba, the first in…
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UNSPUN: Mainstream media, reconciliation and Wab Kinew
Winnipeg Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair’s depiction of Wab Kinew is offensive with damaging implications that reach beyond the election (WFP March 12th and 26th,…
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Un rapport faisant état de la discrimination et de l’injustice dans l’aide qu’offre le Canada à ses citoyens en difficulté à l’étranger
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA – L’Institut Rideau et le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) dévoilent un nouveau rapport, intitulé Les Canadiens…
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New report details discrimination and unfairness in the assistance Canada offers its citizens in difficulty abroad
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A new report, entitled Canadians Abroad: A Policy and Legislative Agenda, has just been released by…
