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  • Working multiple jobs to make ends meet: More common in BC than we might think

    The devastating toll of COVID-19 in nursing homes across the country has drawn attention to the fact that many workers in long-term care work at multiple facilities because they need more than one job to make a living, and this has directly contributed to the tragedy that is currently unfolding.…

  • Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Trade on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

    Download 768.7 KB John Calvert is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Health Science at Simon Fraser University, and a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office. The attached is the text of his presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Trade, during hearings into the Trans-Pacific…

  • May 2006: Labour Rights are Human Rights

    Most Canadians being denied collective bargaining rights In the ideal political economy promoted by the UN’s International Labour Organization, the conditions of work of nearly all working people are negotiated by independent representatives of their own choosing. The situation in Canada falls well short of that ideal. A significant majority…

  • Is the BC government a climate outlaw?

    BC government: climate leader or climate outlaw?

    At both the Paris climate negotiations last November and the recent federal-provincial climate meetings, Premier Christy Clark was keen to position British Columbia as a climate leader. There may indeed have been a short window during the 2008-2010 period when BC could legitimately (albeit arguably) make such a claim; when…

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    Community Benefits Agreements add value to public infrastructure projects

    The BC government recently announced that major new public infrastructure projects, such as the Pattullo Bridge, will be subject to a “Community Benefits Agreement.” The agreement requires that public benefits flow not only from the outcome of a project, but also from the process of building it. The move was…

  • Fast Facts: Comment un salaire vital pourrait réduire la pauvreté au Manitoba

    En ce temps de tourmente économique, des politiques de salaire suffisant pour vivre constituent une façon de stimuler notre économie locale. On applique une politique de salaire suffisant pour vivre, ou salaire vital, dans au moins 122 villes des É.-U. Une telle politique est à l’étude dans plus de 70…

  • Eminent policy experts draw roadmap to end for-profit long-term care in Ontario

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – With licenses for more than 30,000 long-term care beds set to expire in 2025 and 15,000 new beds in the works, a group of eminent public policy experts is calling on Queen’s Park to develop them all as public non-profit beds…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Displacement, Housing and Homelessness in Northern Manitoba Communities

    Download 1.43 MB64 pages The fact that Indigenous people are consistently overrepresented in homeless counts across Canada reflects the lack of attention to its causes, such as the historical effects of colonization.  Importantly, according to Thistle, homelessness for Indigenous people is not just about the absence of a roof over…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2016

    Community Watch? Surveillance, safety and control in Canadian Education This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves explores not only surveillance, but the ways in which control is exerted on and through our education system as well as its workers, teachers and students. We also look more closely at the concept of…

  • Stop tinkering and build an Early Learning and Child Care system: CCPA-NS

    Current patchwork, market-based approach is failing province and families CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX – Nova Sco­tia’s market-based, patchwork approach to Early Learning and Child Care is not working for families is the central message in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS)’s submission to the…

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    Five ways BC Budget 2019 could pave the way for a comprehensive poverty reduction plan

    This post is part of our BC Budget 2019 series, which highlights key findings from the CCPA’s research and outlines our recommendations for the 2019 provincial budget. Find more from the series at: policynote.ca/budget2019 In a province where poverty was ignored for too long, BC’s current government deserves credit for…

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    Why has UBC divested from fossil fuels but UVic has not? The high cost of industry influence

    The death and disruption wrought by COVID-19 is calamitous. The bad news is that climate change will be worse. It is easy to forget that 2020 began with Australia burning in a brutal wildfire season. Like the current pandemic, Australia’s disaster was predicted years in advance by ecological science. As…