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  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Building Sustainable Communities Program After Two Years: Where Did the Money Go?

    Download 542.18 KB 13 pages The Building Sustainable Communities Program After Two Years: Where Did the Money Go? report by Shauna MacKinnon was prompted by the changes brought on by the amalgamation of funding programs into the Building Sustainable Communities (BSC) Fund in 2019. Anticipating that these changes would have…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Politics versus the future: Canada’s Orwellian energy standoff

    There is no denying the utility of fossil fuels, which meet 85% of the world’s energy needs. And consumption is rising along with emissions. Even in Canada, the second largest hydropower producer in the world, 76% of end use energy is provided by fossil fuels. We are told by the…

  • Calls for Montebello inquiry justified

    What are we to make of the events at the recent summit in Montebello, Que.? The series of summits was initiated by U.S. President George W. Bush to promote his North American Security and Prosperity Partnership agenda to the Canadian prime minister and the president of Mexico. The meetings included…

  • December 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part II of III)

    Personal incomes rise much more slowly in free trade years The noted Canadian economist Pierre Fortin tells us that, “during the 1990s, Canada’s aggregate economic performance has been the worst since the great depression, and very nearly the worst among all industrial countries.” For those of you who might think…

  • Fast Facts: The Stop and the Community Food Centre Model

    In 1998, when I became executive director of Toronto’s The Stop Community Food Centre, the small urban food bank was like thousands of other cramped, dreary, makeshift spaces — a last-hope refuge where desperate people could stave off hunger for one more day with a hamper filled with wilted produce…

  • Fast Facts: McFadyen’s crazy numbers won’t fool Manitobans

    A Brandon Sun editorial of April 2, 2011 (“So what’s the real cost of Bipole III?”) reports that, in his announcement of the revised estimate of $3.28 billion, Bob Brennan, president and CEO of Manitoba Hydro said he “does not like all these crazy numbers floating around…It’s just not good…

  • Selling Saskatchewan

    A decade of privatization 2007-2017 Download 4.01 MB20 pages “Crowns are not going to be privatized and subsidiaries are not going to be wound down… Our party will not do anything that that will be destructive to the long-term viability of the Crowns.” – Brad Wall (09/08/2007) “Offering medical services…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Climate damages litigation could cost Canadian oil & gas companies billions: study

    OTTAWA—Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages for their contribution to climate change, according a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and West Coast Environmental Law (West Coast) that analyzes scenarios in which the legal landscape concerning climate…

  • The Frontier Centre’s dubious numbers about public sector wages

    As if the Fraser Institute needed any help getting its message in the media, there are now a number of Fraser clones that are preaching the same message.  One of those clones, Winnipeg’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy, has gotten a lot of ink in the last few weeks with…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada completes the 1st round of negotiations with Indonesia, the largest palm oil producer

    This week, Canada and Indonesia, the largest palm oil producer and exporter in the world, are completing the first round of negotiations on a proposed Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Only last year, research published in Nature Ecology and Evolution described how wealthy countries contribute to deforestation in poorer nations through international trade deals. According to…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    An evening with Winona LaDuke in Vancouver, BC (audio and slideshow)

    Narrated slideshow Audio only On January 19, 2018, Winona LaDuke—an internationally renowned environmental activist working on issues of sustainable development and renewable energy—gave a public talk in Vancouver, BC. This event was sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office (CCPA-BC), the Corporate Mapping Project (CMP), Indigenous…

  • Fast Facts: The social and economic conditions that produce poor health

    In a recent editorial (“Aboriginal HIV Rates Disturbing”) the Winnipeg Free Press expressed concern about the rising incidence of HIV infection in, among other places, Winnipeg’s inner city. There, “social and economic conditions make people easy prey” for HIV infection. The editorial called for a “vigorous response” to these problems.…