Menu
News & Research
Read our latest research, policy analysis and commentary
Our publications are available to all at no cost. Please support the CCPA and help make important research and ideas available to everyone. Make a donation today.
-
Work Life: Failure to act fails us all…Manitoba income supports needed during COVID
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 1, 2020 Manitoba must help those being clobbered financially by the COVID-19 pandemic: it is the right…
-
None of us are safe until all of us are safe
This virus has been, in Armine Yalnizyan’s words, “A blitzkrieg on huge sectors of the economy.”
-
Workers in which sectors were hit hardest by COVID-19 closures
Further to my other work looking at who has lost either their job or the majority of their hours between February and March, in this…
-
Fast Facts: Austerity Agendas, COVID and Universities
An inside view As I write this, the University of Manitoba and all other post-secondary institutions are desperately working to meet the Pallister governments edicts,…
-
New animated video for kids and their families during COVID-19
Two decades of working in children’s television taught regional Emmy Award-winning Mike Erskine-Kellie and Susan McLennan that if you want to change the world, you…
-
PSE student support program: Does it pass the test?
At least 1.17 million post secondary education (PSE) students or recent grads will use the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB). They wouldn’t have been able…
-
Ted McGrath / Flickr” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_apr2020_tent-cities-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px” />Dismantling tent cities—why choice matters
[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“When you live on the street long enough, eventually you stop believing in choices. Where you eat, sleep…
-
Unpacking the “end the lockdown” protests
And here we are again. Why? “The cure is worse than the disease.” That’s a slogan from the anti-lockdown playbook you may have heard this…
-
Show, don’t tell: Canada’s COVID-19 response doesn’t meet students’ needs or reflect their realities
If you’re a young person in Canada right now, chances are you’re used to the government letting you down. Whether you’re a teenager in Ontario…
Ted McGrath
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates