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In Alberta, “parental rights” and privatization go hand in hand
About the authorHeather GanshornHeather Ganshorn is the Research Director of Support Our Students Alberta, a non-partisan, non-profit public education advocacy group fighting for the rights…
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End of a painful era
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Civil disobedience as a tool for setting Canada’s climate agenda
Captain Planet is taken away in handcuffs during an anti–Keystone XL pipeline protest in Washington, D.C., March 2, 2014 (Credit: Light Brigading)
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Ontario’s newest trend: living wage employers
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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Canada’s failure to reduce emissions: Unlawful or above the law?
No matter how you look at it, Canada is a climate change laggard. Carbon dioxide emissions—the largest contributor to global warming—are now 18% greater than…
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The Monitor, November/December 2015
Canada and Climate Change Download 10.9 MB There is a new government in Ottawa, led by a party that promised, during the long election campaign,…
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Spotlight on health care austerity: seniors’ residential care
Let’s break down changes in health care spending by age group. You might think that as overall health care spending in BC has gone up, we…
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Austerity comes to BC’s health care system
For many years, BC’s health care system escaped the austerity imposed on other parts of the public sector. No longer. While total dollars allocated to…
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Room to hike federal taxes on the 1%: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The new federal government has plenty of room to raise the taxes of Canada’s one percenters, according to a new…
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How Much Income Tax Could Canada’s Top 1% Pay?
Download 840.17 KB50 pages How much more could Canada’s richest 1% be paying in income tax? This study concludes that there is more than enough…
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CCPA Submission to BC Budget Consultations 2016
Download 1.07 MB 17 pages Canada’s economy has disappointed in 2015, dipping into a recession in the first half of the year. BC’s economy is…
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Relief, cautious optimism and disappointments: Lessons from the 2015 federal election
About the authorsSeth KleinSeth Klein was a CCPA-BC research associate and the former CCPA-BC Director.Shannon DaubShannon was the CCPA-BC Director and co-director of the Corporate…
