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  • Profile paper silhouettes of people in different skin tones

    Evaluating BC Budget 2024’s commitments to racial equity

    Poverty reduction is a crucial element to advancing racial equity in BC, but the province’s new targets for reducing overall poverty are insufficiently ambitious and lack the urgency needed to effect meaningful change.

  • Zombie neoliberalism, taxes and the common good

    With Alex Himelfarb with Jesse Hajer

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  • Prime Minister Trudeau face closed up and off centered to the left, with half his face showing. Blackandwhite

    The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance

    The record of what has been done–and what hasn’t–will surprise even well-informed readers. The book is on shelves now. Readers should check out their local bookshop to find a copy—and ask that the shop order some if they haven’t done so already. They can also order copies at local libraries…

  • Uber No Solution for Winnipeg

    Analysis of taxi and transport Conservative forces in the provincial legislature and at Winnipeg City Hall are combining to enable ride-sharing services such as Uber and allow its introduction into the Winnipeg market. Acting on recommendations of the December 2016 report prepared by accounting firm Myers, Norris, Penny (MNP) on…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    CCPA Manitoba Presentation to Standing Policy Committee on Protection, Community Services and Parks in support of the tabling of the Supervised Consumption Site in Winnipeg report June 7, 2021

    Since 2005, we have led the annual State of the Inner City research project, which has collaborated with Winnipeg over forty community-based organizations (CBOs) working in the inner city. The project researches issues that matter to CBOs and the communities they serve. It connects the personal struggles of the people…

  • The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba

    What makes social housing ‘social’? In part, social housing is different from private-market housing because it intentionally provides low-cost housing for low-income households. But it is also a way of taking housing out of the market. It’s a way of keeping housing affordable, and of stabilizing housing as shelter, by…

  • The Problem with Public-Private Partnerships

    Economic crisis exposes the high costs and risks of P3s If there is one thing that the current financial and economic crisis has shown, it is that the neoconservative economic model of deregulation, privatization, tax cuts, free trade and unequal growth is bankrupt. And yet, incredibly, Canadian governments and corporations…

  • The federal government still has time to improve the 2024 budget—will it?

    CCPA senior economist David Macdonald’s remarks to the Senate committee on Bill C-69, which would implement the 2024 federal budget

    The following text is adapted from a speech delivered by David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to the Senate’s committee on Bill C-69, the legislation which would implement the 2024 federal budget. The remarks have been edited for context, clarity, and style.

  • Response to Chief Smyth’s citation of CCPA MB published research

    On March 23th, 2023 Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth posted on the Winnipeg Police Service substack a statement in response to Fadi Ennab’s research on police in schools. Fadi Ennab is a Vanier Scholar and a PhD student, university instructor, and highly-respected community researcher. Ennab has done two reports on…

  • Upholding our moral compass

    Why now is the time to talk about Palestine in schools

    Equity is teaching and learning that is centered on justice, liberation, truth, and freedom, and is free of bias and favouritism. You cannot talk about true justice, liberation, truth, and freedom without talking about anti-racism.”—Dr. Gholdy Muhammad “Unearthing Joy”

  • From disenfranchised to revitalized: Ten proposals to set our forests and BC’s rural communities on a new course

    Fort Nelson and Merritt lie at two geographical extremes, the former perched in the northeast corner near some of British Columbia’s biggest natural gas plays, the latter located deep in the province’s southwest, near rolling dry hills that are home to BC’s biggest ranches. It takes nearly 15 hours by…

  • Railway workers’ right to strike compromised by corporate regulatory capture

    On August 24, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ordered railway corporations and workers to be back to work by the following Monday morning while it forces them into a binding arbitration process. The move put an end to the disruption—both strikes and lockouts.

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