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  • Corporate Mapping Project
    Resource Economics Project (BC)

    The urgent need for a full Public Inquiry into fracking in BC

    Group letter to John Horgan and Michelle Mungall Honourable John Horgan, BC Premier, and Honourable Michelle Mungall, BC Minister for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources cc Andrew Weaver, BC Green Party Leader Dear Premier Horgan and Minister Mungall, We write to you today as directors of numerous civil society organizations that recently…

  • Fast Facts: Inconsistent Information for Environmental Review

    Frac Sand Mining in Manitoba Update from “What the Frack is Happening in Manitoba” Nov. 22, 2018 see tab below. The corporation proposing a major mining operation on the shores of Lake Winnipeg is not providing accurate and timely information. This is putting the integrity of the public environmental review…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Poverty and Education in a Winnipeg Suburb

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press December 5, 2019 The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores were released this week, and once again Manitoba ranked poorly relative to other provinces and the Canadian average. Some will say, “What is wrong with our educational system?” However, the better question…

  • KPMG: Reasons to be skeptical of the advice they offer

    It is curious that the Pallister government would have hired consulting firm KPMG to provide advice on how to manage the Province’s affairs. KPMG’s actions across the world and in Canada—some illegal; many promoting the interests of the exceptionally rich at the expense of the rest of us—suggest that we…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    BC needs a full public inquiry into fracking

    Last year, more natural gas was produced in British Columbia than at any point in the past 10 years. That may come as a surprise to some people who thought that growth in BC’s natural gas industry hinged on the emergence of a Liquefied Natural Gas sector. It does not.…

  • Highlights from BC Budget 2017

    The 2017 BC Budget was just released; here’s our analysis so far: MSP goes down for families with income under $120,000 MSP premiums are going to be cut in half for families with incomes under $120,000 as of January 2018. Essentially, BC Budget 2017 reverses the MSP increases this government…

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    Education Project

    Tuition fee hikes at Memorial University will erode its competitive advantage: study

    Province’s fiscal plan could make students pay for one-third of deficit by 2025 OTTAWA—Planned tuition fee hikes and funding cuts at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) will erode the school’s ability to attract students and download a disproportionate amount of the province’s deficit onto learners, according to a new report…

  • Why is Milk So Expensive in First Nations Communities?

    Access to and Affordability of Milk in Northern Manitoba Download 1.48 MB20 pages This study finds milk is significantly costlier in First Nations communities than in Winnipeg and Northern Manitoba. The cost was higher in First Nations with and without access to an all-weather road. The study is based on…

  • British Medical Journal links social spending cuts to increased mortality

    An article and an editorial in this week’s British Medical Journal outline the very high cost of cutting social programs. The article’s authors look at social spending in the OECD and find changes in social spending directly related to changes in mortality.  Even more, they find the impact of social…

  • Fast Facts: Community, Research and Social Change

    The 10th Annual State of the Inner City Report The State of the Inner City Report is an annual research collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and community organizations based in the inner city of Winnipeg. This year marks its tenth year anniversary. Since the beginning, the…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Mayor playing with fire

    Throughout 2018 there has been intense media scrutiny directed at Alex Forrest, the President of the United Firefighters of Winnipeg (UFFW).While this story continues to unfold, we do know its most important facts. We know that in collective bargaining in 2014, the Firefighters and the City agreed to an arrangement…

  • Higher learning, lower earning? The state of employment on Ontario campuses

    It’s no secret that university and college revenues are shifting, with the public component of funding largely in decline. It’s also no secret—or coincidence—that the tuition and other fees charged to students are up. In most cases, way up. After all, the money has to come from somewhere. And as…