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  • Need to Rebalance the Nova Scotia Tax System for the Greater Good

    HALIFAX— If Nova Scotia hopes to move forward, the current tax system must change. Cuts to corporate taxes and income taxes for the highest earners and increasing reliance on consumption taxes will not help the majority of Nova Scotians, nor will they help us to build a province that is…

  • Labour Matters

    UNSPUN: Keep public services public

    The perils of P3’s and SIBs The results of the recent federal election are a likely indication of what Manitobans want to see from our next government: transparency; stimulus spending on ailing infrastructure, financed by deficits; a transition to a green economy; and respect and support for Canada’s public service…

  • Work standards must change as economy re-opens in wake of COVID-19: New report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER – Governments, employers and unions must all work urgently to address several critical weaknesses in Canada’s employment laws and policies to ensure the re-opening of the economy in the wake of COVID-19 can be safe and sustained. That’s the core message of…

  • BC’s irresponsible budget

    As noted in many recent newspaper articles and editorials, posts on this blog, and social media posts, BC’s 2016 budget reflected the short-sighted and unnecessary priority of the current government to pay down debt and “balance” the budget over meeting the pressing needs of British Columbians, particularly those with developmental,…

  • CCPA-BC launches new documentary: The Good Life – The Green Life

    Happy to announce that the CCPA-BC has released its third documentary film, a video series entitled The Good Life – The Green Life. This project has been about two years in the making, led by our communications director Shannon Daub. I encourage you to visit the special website created for…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2016

    Oral History Education, Political Engagement, and Youth The Winter 2016 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves offers a thoughtful and multifaceted collection on the subject of Oral History (the process of recording, preserving, and disseminating our understandings of the past through life narratives), education, political engagement, and youth. Although this issue…

  • From discrimination against temporary foreign workers to sexual harassment, there’s no shortage of issues a human rights commission could tackle

    British Columbia is the only province in Canada that does not have a Human Rights Commission. That makes us the weakest province when it comes to fostering human rights awareness and preventing discrimination. Currently BC only has a Human Rights Tribunal, which mediates and adjudicates complaints about discrimination after it…

  • Access to subsidized assisted living dropping as for-profit companies focus on more lucrative private-pay market: study

    Vancouver — BC added a mere 105 units of publicly subsidized assisted living over nearly a decade (2010-17), despite a growing population of seniors. As a result, access to subsidized assisted living dropped, while the number of private-pay units grew by leaps and bounds over the same period, with 1,130…

  • Community Development in a North End Winnipeg Neighbourhood 2005 – 2017

    Download 651.79 KB24 pages Community Development in a North End Winnipeg Neighbourhood, 2005-2017 examines community development in the Dufferin neighbourhood in Winnipeg’s North End over a period of twelve years. This paper describes how this work later played an integral role in the resurgence of Winnipeg’s Bear Clan Patrol. It…

  • Manitoba’s COVID Recovery Must be Feminist – new analysis

    “Decades of gender equality progress was wiped away in two short months during 2020, the budget must contain meaningful action and funding for universal child care, training and skills-building, and making recent temporary changes to EI permanent” – CCPA National Senior Economist Katherine Scott author of Work and COVID-19: Priorities…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2015

    How Does Your Garden Grow? Sustainability, collaboration, and place-based learning This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is an opportunity to explore much of what has resulted from the fallout of…well, let’s just say more than a decade of neglect, downloading, and diminishment. It examines how communities are fighting back against attacks on public…

  • Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record

    Over the past five years, exercise of the fundamental freedom of speech in Canada has been curbed and discouraged by a federal government increasingly intolerant of even the mildest criticism or dissent. Particularly affected have been organizations dependent on government funding which advocate for human rights and women’s equality. Their…