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  • How much is BC giving to natural gas companies?

    All British Columbians have a stake in the pricing of natural resources. When trees are logged, when minerals are mined, when fossil fuels are drilled, the companies doing the extracting pay fees to the Province in recognition that the resources are publicly owned. It is therefore in everybody’s interest to…

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    Penticton’s peculiar policy on freedom of information

    This is International Right to Know Week, a week in honour of the public’s right to information held by their governments. The week is being celebrated in different ways in the 105 countries around the world with right to information laws. Here in British Columbia the City of Penticton is celebrating…

  • Labour Matters
    Trade Union Research Collective

    Fast Facts: How Unions Protect Our Human Rights

    Unions are usually thought of as being about higher wages.  It’s true. Unions do produce higher wages for their members (and often, as a result of knock-on effects, for other workers as well).  As of April 2011, for example, the 200,000 Manitoba workers covered by collective agreements earned an average hourly…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001

    DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in the sale of children to commercial interests. This facet of the economic imperative is obscured by the siren call of…

  • Visioning Nova Scotia in 2020

    Analyzing the current state of affairs in NS and searching for solutions In Nov. of 2009, the Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives hosted a conference in Halifax, named “Visioning Nova Scotia in 2020: Advancing research and policy for sustainability”. Its purpose was to identify the…

  • UNSPUN: Assessing Mantioba’s economic performance

    The Manitoba Employers Council (MEC) recently released a report that delivers a damning indictment of the Manitoban economy. Fortunately for the province it is the report, not the economy, that deserves the failing grade. Deploying a selective set of economic indicators, the report compares Manitoba’s economic performance not to that…

  • The Oil Blotter: Postmedia & Big Oil’s symbiosis

    With some notable exceptions, like the Globe and Mail’s feature on the enormous cost of remediating Alberta’s abandoned oil wells, Canada’s corporate press hasn’t paid much critical attention to this powerful industrial sector. Why not?

    With some notable exceptions, like the Globe and Mail’s feature on the enormous cost of remediating Alberta’s abandoned oil wells, Canada’s corporate press hasn’t paid much critical attention to this powerful industrial sector. Why not?

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Subsidized Housing With Supports Needs More Support

    Lessons from WestEnd Commons Stable and affordable housing is a central component in improving people’s quality of life. In light of a severe housing shortage facing low-income renters, it is clear that Manitoba has work to do to ensure that all citizens have access to a warm and secure place…

  • Canadian investor-state lawsuits from mining companies threaten environmental policy and sustainable development: study

    OTTAWA—Canadian mining companies continue to target environmental policy and resource management decisions in developing nations through increasingly costly investor-state lawsuits that threaten human rights, sustainable development and action on climate change, according to new analysis released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). “Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is…

  • Fast Facts: Province must extend eviction moratorium

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 16, 2020 Thousands of low income renters in the private market impacted by COVID-19 could face eviction in just two weeks. Last week the Province of Manitoba issued a press release stating the moratorium on non-payment of rent during COVID is ending…

  • April 2005: No News is Bad News

    Does it do any good to complain about mass media failings? Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and write, and I was fortunate to get into it while still in my teens. I became a reporter, columnist, and editor, worked for…

  • When it comes to higher education costs, tuition is just the tip of the iceberg

    Making postsecondary education affordable means more than reducing fees

    Making postsecondary education affordable means more than reducing fees