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The Monitor – Spring 2025
These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to safeguard our democracy.
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Debunking myths about interprovincial trade barriers
Trade barrier talk is really a continuation of the neoliberal project to put private profit ahead of the public interest. CCPA researchers pulled facts in…
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Canadian tech bros are taking a page out of their U.S. brethrens’ playbook
Looking down south at the state of American politics, you wouldn’t think there is much Canadians would want to emulate. Yet an increasingly vocal faction…
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Trump’s tariff war could compel U.S. companies to flee Canada: that could hurt one in 10 workers
While we don’t know the extent of Trump’s tariff war on Canada, we do know it will affect workers’ jobs and livelihoods.
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Our political imagination is failing the Trump test
The following is a re-print of the February 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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Manitoba Budget 2025
Budget 2025 takes further steps towards repairing public services while also providing stimulus for the provincial economy to counter 25% tariffs from the United States…
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Delivering for you or for a few? Saskatchewan’s 2025 Budget
If there was any mystery around this year’s Saskatchewan provincial budget, it was how the government would respond to the Trump tariff threat through public…
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Canada Free Trade Agreement amendments: A race to the bottom
One of the most egregious components of the Canada Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) is the restriction that governments should demonstrate that any new regulations they…
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Interprovincial trade “solutions” would restrict public oversight of the market
Inflated claims about major benefits of enhancing the Canada Free Trade Act (CFTA) as part of Canada’s frenzied interprovincial trade barrier campaign have an ulterior…
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Mark Carney’s Values: What his 2021 book reveals about the leader he might be
It’s fair to say that Mark Carney’s 2021 book, Values: Building a Better World for All, was his early application to be prime minister. Values…
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Campaign to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers is neoliberal project
What are we to make of the current—almost hysterical—campaign by business interests who claim that removing interprovincial trade barriers is the best way to address…
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How a small border community in Quebec built a support network for asylum seekers
In the Fall of 2017, a small group of activists in Hemmingford, Quebec, began standing in solidarity with asylum seekers crossing into Quebec from the…
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