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National Office

Democracy & Electoral Rights

Salvaging the Senate (Part I)
Properly run, the Senate can enhance and protect democracy “The idea of senators as lazy old busters who sit twiddling their thumbs and don’t earn…
May 1, 2013
National Office

Agriculture & Farming
Environment & Sustainability

Prairie Commons in Crisis
Beneficial Community Pasture Program killed by Bill C-38 With the widespread damage to environmental protection inflicted by the federal government’s omnibus Bill C-38, it was…
May 1, 2013
National Office

Human Rights
International

The Neocolonization of Africa (Part II)
U.S. and China’s rivalry over Africa’s riches intensifies In my report on France’s invasion of Mali published in the March issue of The Monitor, I…
May 1, 2013
National Office

Economic Indicators
Income & Wealth Inequality
Living Wage

It Pays To Pay A Living Wage
Canadian communities are embracing “living wage” campaigns Work should lift us out of poverty. It’s a simple aspiration, an equation many of us believe in,…
May 1, 2013
National Office

Economic Indicators
Employment & Labour
Government Finance

What Price, Austerity?
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
May 1, 2013
Manitoba

Employment & Labour

May Day 2013
Another World Is Possible As we digest the news coming out of Europe, with millions of people out of work at the same time as…
May 1, 2013
BC

Employment & Labour

Why BC’s lower-wage workers are struggling: The case for stronger employment standards
BC has acquired the “distinction” of being home to Canada’s largest income gap, highest poverty rate, and second highest child poverty rate. It also has…
April 30, 2013
National Office

News & Commentary

Climate change: Joe Oliver deems fears “exaggerated”
Federal Natural Resource minister Joe Oliver stopped by Montréal on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling.…
April 29, 2013
National Office

Government Finance

Fulfilling the Promise of the Parliamentary Budget Office: Bill C-476
Before there was a Parliamentary Budget Office, there was no way to independently assess the federal government’s economic and fiscal forecasts. In the late-1990s, we…
April 29, 2013

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