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CBC’s road to [ir]relevance runs through cities like Hamilton
As the national public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada has a broad mandate to serve Canadians and to “reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences,…
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The EI “Job Credit”: try “Job Killer”
About the authorDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…
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Provinces pursuing two-tier tuition fee policies: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—The average cost of tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students will rise by almost 13% over the next…
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Tier for Two
Managing the Optics of Provincial Tuition Fee Policies Download 472.83 KB32 pages This study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since…
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Infographic: An Education in Inflation 2014
The cost of tuition has gone up 197% since 1993, how much has everything else gone up? Share our infographic and find out more in…
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Which Pays Better: Public or Private Sector Jobs?
Settling the Debate Download 563.89 KB13 pages This report provides an overview of public versus private sector pay in order to determine which one pays…
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Fast Facts: A vote for austerity is a vote for more suffering
Lorrie Steeve’s distasteful comments about Aboriginal panhandlers set off a series of responses that reflected badly on many Winnipeggers. The following week’s big story was…
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Modi and the criminalization of Indian politics
The election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in May, with strong backing from the country’s capitalist class, placed a mass murderer at the…
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Labour unions in the 21st century?
The preservation of past experience in cultural memory too often fails to stick, with serious social consequences. Without an adequate understanding of the past we…
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Call the inquiry
“I think, though, this is not a time to commit sociology.” —Prime Minister Stephen Harper, April 25, 2013 On August 21, facing new calls for…
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From cabinet to CropLife: Menzies avoids ethical scrutiny over new job as top pesticide and GMO lobbyist
Since last November, Sierra Club Canada’s John Bennett has been raising the alarm about the appointment of Ted Menzies, the former Conservative cabinet minister, as…
