Updates from the CCPA
This week the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office is pleased to welcome Emira Mears to our staff team as our newly appointed Associate Director.
Emira is an accomplished...
February 11, 2019 |
BC Office Supporters of fossil fuel infrastructure projects position themselves as friends of working people, framing climate action as antithetical to the more immediately pressing need to protect oil and gas...
December 13, 2018 |
BC Office "Racialized workers in Ontario are significantly more likely to be concentrated in low-wage jobs and face persistent unemployment and earnings gaps compared to white employees — pointing to the “...
December 12, 2018 |
Ontario Office The Ontario government is planning to upload Toronto’s subway, claiming it will allow for the rapid expansion of better public transit across the GTHA, but that’s highly doubtful.
Why? Because...
December 12, 2018 |
Ontario Office Getting to doctors appointments, going to school, to work, attending social engagements, picking up groceries and even going to the beach should all affordable and accessible. Check out Ellen Smirl'...
December 7, 2018 |
Manitoba Office In Winnipeg, there is a need for more affordable housing, as 21 percent of households (64,065 households) are living in unaffordable housing--according to CMHC's definition of spending more than 30...
December 3, 2018 |
Manitoba Office For the first time, a report outlines what implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could and should look like at the provincial level. This report focuses...
November 21, 2018 |
BC Office The five largest bitumen-extractive corporations in Canada control 79.3 per cent of Canada’s productive capacity of bitumen. The Big Five—Suncor Energy, Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL),...
November 9, 2018 |
BC Office The CCPA-BC Board of Directors is delighted to share the news that Shannon Daub will be the next BC Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Last spring, Seth Klein announced that,...
October 24, 2018 |
BC Office The major investors in Canada’s fossil fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, says a new Corporate Mapping Project...
October 15, 2018 |
BC Office, Saskatchewan Office A diverse coalition representing health care providers, non-profit organizations, workers, seniors, patients and academics has come together to issue a statement of consensus principles for the...
September 24, 2018 |
National Office The CCPA is pleased to announce the creation of the Kate McInturff Fellowship in Gender Justice.This Fellowship is created to honour the legacy of senior researcher Kate McInturff who passed away in...
September 19, 2018 |
National Office Ricardo Tranjan proposes an alternate plan to Doug Ford's buck-a-beer challenge in the Toronto Star.
September 6, 2018 |
Ontario Office The Toronto Star's Sara Mojtehedzadeh discusses the findings of the CCPA Ontario's report, No Safe Harbour and gathers firsthand accounts from precariously employed professionals who live and work in...
September 6, 2018 |
Ontario Office
Our latests publication, Lesson Here, digs in to the West Viriginia teachers' strike. Read the firsthand accounts of the work stoppage here.
September 4, 2018 |
National Office