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  • Vancouver's colour coded housing market

    Tackling racial inequality in Vancouver’s housing crisis: a new community research initiative

    This initiative seeks to shed light on the racialized dimensions of Vancouver’s housing crisis and to develop data-driven housing policies that prioritize both racial equity and decolonization.

  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC Hydro was so worried that its Peace Canyon dam could be badly damaged if an earthquake was triggered at a nearby natural gas industry disposal…

  • Refugee Claimants Require Temporary and Permanent Supports in Manitoba

    We in Manitoba find ourselves in need of a serious discussion about how to coordinate services, including lodging, for the refugee claimants who are continuing to cross the Canada-US border at Emerson, Manitoba.  This involves puzzling out the place of supports and services in the broader refugee system as well…

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    Submission to the Industrial Inquiry Commission on the dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia

    This submission provides an overview of the pertinent social and economic factors that the Industrial Inquiry Commission must consider as it develops recommendations concerning the issues that prevented Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) from reaching a negotiated collective agreement.

  • Cost of F-35 fleet could reach $126 billion, report finds

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A report on the cost of F-35s has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The Plane That Ate the Canadian Military” was written by University of British Columbia political science professor Michael Byers.…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us

    Community health centres (CHCs) have been an effective but under-valued model for delivering primary health care1 for decades in Canada and the US. One of the unique features of the model is its strong focus on the social determinants of health and preventing acute illness among groups who are more likely to experience poor health and…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Supporting Community-Led Development in Manitoba

    Policy Alternatives for Inclusive and Participatory Community Renewal

    Despite the current challenges facing communities and research supporting the benefits of community-led development (CLD), Manitoba hasn’t had a functioning, comprehensive CLD strategy or dedicated funding to support community development organizations since 2019. In the spring of 2024, the Manitoba government launched a new program, From the Ground Up —…

  • Expansive aerial view of a pit mining project in Alberta's Oilsands near Fort McMurray.
    Corporate Mapping Project

    New report shines light on the state of fossil fuel industry in Eastern Canada – an overlooked region in energy transition debates

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT [HALIFAX/ Kjipuktuk, June 6, 2023] – Despite Eastern Canada being highly invested in oil and gas production, the region is often left out of energy policy discussions typically focused on Western provinces. A new report maps the extensive existing and proposed fossil fuel exploration,…

  • Today’s conservatives Are Not Your Grandpa’s Tories

    Co-ops, Credit Unions and Free Trade Policies On the Main Street in Morden Manitoba there are two gas stations: an Esso and a Co-op. During the busiest times of the week-after a hockey game, or on Sunday when the area’s many churches let out-you will see cars waiting in line…

  • Actually… appropriate funding is an important part of the solution

    A recent editorial in the Globe and Mail (“Accountability, not lack of money, is the real problem on federal reserves”, June 19th 2013) misrepresents the joint CCPA and Save the Children report , Poverty of Prosperity: Indigenous children in Canada. In particular, the Globe editorial claims that “What is eye-catching is the…

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    Priming the pump

    Scientist warns cumulative effect of thousands of fracked gas wells means powerful earthquakes ahead for northeast BC Massive amounts of water pumped with brute force into the earth at thousands of fracking operations is priming the pump for potentially deadly earthquakes in British Columbia’s Montney basin, warns a former top…

  • Tax cuts would come back to bite BC

    In the BC election, significant tax cuts were put on the table by both the BC Conservatives and BC NDP in their policy platforms. While they were framed as a way of easing pressures on the cost of living, tax cuts would do little to address the structural problems underlying…