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  • Education Project

    Navigating Canada’s complex terrain of student financial assistance

    OTTAWA—Student aid systems in Canada are intricate, elaborate, and, in many cases, thoroughly unmanageable, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, It’s Complicated: An Interprovincial Comparison of Student Financial Aid, examines and compares how each province and territory has constructed their student…

  • Quand austérité rime avec hostilité

    Caroline Joly est une attachée de recherche à IRIS, un institut de recherche sans but lucratif, indépendant et progressiste à Montréal. [1] http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2015/02/20150227-182601.html [2] http://ici.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/media/2015/02/27/Anne-Marie-Dussault-recoit-Adil-Charkaoui?externalId=7250942&appCode=medianet

  • TimberWest forestry operations destabilizing Vancouver Island communities

    TimberWest is consistently one of the top exporters of raw, unprocessed logs from British Columbia’s coastal forests. The company also has growing ties with Island Timberlands, BC’s other top log exporter. The two companies share roads, log sort yards and other infrastructure to generate profits. “As affiliated companies, TimberWest and…

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    The US election results: Brief thoughts on the unthinkable

    Having watched the US electoral horror show unfolding over several months, I’m trying to stand back from the emotional impact of the outcome, to think of some of the themes for progressive debate and research in politics and communication. What understandings are relevant to the political action that our collective…

  • Searching the Past for Policy Alternatives

    Ways to a better future to be learned from “commons” past When Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work restoring the credibility of the self-governing commons, she boosted the revival of this alternative to state or market control. Its heritage is huge and hugely important, especially for…

  • April 2006: Selling Off Our Country

    Takeovers place key Canadian industries in foreign hands In the late 1960s and throughout the first half of the 1970s, Canadians became increasingly concerned about the already high and rapidly increasing level of foreign ownership in Canada, which had reached over one-third of all non-financial industry corporate assets and over…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2016

    Mass Historia: Exploring history, narrative, and citizenship in our classrooms The fall 2016 issue of OS/OS focuses on history: how it’s taught in classrooms across the country; how it could be taught; what’s left out; and who is challenging convention. The issue brings together students, teachers, academics and administrators in…

  • Fast Facts: Vulnerable Manitobans going without daily bread

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Oct. 19, 2016 as “Manitobans hungrier for meatier food allowance”. If you only had $3.96 a day to spend on groceries, what would you buy? That’s a question Laura Shields deals with every day. Laura is a 61 year old woman who grew…

  • March 2007: The Folly of Deregulation

    Cost of losing control of our electricity is enormous Many people were recently outraged when the Auditor-General told us about the money and perks bestowed on those managing Ontario’s two major public electricity companies—Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation. What most people don’t know, however, is that the money and…

  • Canada’s largest companies prioritizing shareholder payouts over pension contributions

    OTTAWA—Last year, Canada’s largest publicly-traded companies paid out four times more to shareholders than it would have cost to fully fund their defined benefit (DB) pension plans, according to new research released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Thirty-nine companies on the S&P/TSX 60 maintain DB pension plans, amounting to…

  • Challenges persist: Community-based mental health in BC

    In 2006, I wrote the report, “Community Based Mental Health in BC: Changes to Income, Employment and Housing Supports” to explain policy changes that had occurred with a new government and to look at their impact on community-based mental health services. In 2001 the Liberals came into power in BC…

  • CCPA calls on Auditor General to investigate stunning $1-billion annual increase in provincial natural gas-drilling subsidy program

    VANCOUVER – An unprecedented increase in a special “credit” account set up by the BC government to subsidize the fracking industry should be immediately investigated by the province’s Auditor General, says the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In November 2017, BC’s Minister of Energy, Mines and…