Search results for “"http:/www.shutterstock.com/editorial”

  • The Monitor, May/June 2015

    Welcome to Your New Monitor Download 4.59 MB After more than two decades, the Monitor is rebooting to seize new political opportunities and adapt to technological challenges. To reach that audience, in a post–Web 2.0 age, the Monitor needed to be much more than a bulletin, so we’re giving it a…

  • Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History

    We’re proud that over 1,500 people subscribe to this free fast facts service. The best way to ensure progressive research continues to be published in Manitoba is by supporting the CCPA-MB. Help us continue to do community-based research and commentary on issues of social justice and environmental sustainability. To find…

  • Montreal Massacre: Still fighting for our daughters, one generation later

    I was 19 and in my second year of university—with my whole life laid out before me—when the massacre at École Polytechnique happened. I now have three children, including an 18-year-old daughter in her first year of university, and a wonderful career doing work that I love. 

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    TISA versus Public Services

    The Trade in Services Agreement and the Corporate Agenda Download 604.48 KB26 pages This study examines the adverse impacts on public services and public interest regulation of the little-known Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), quietly being negotiated in Geneva by a group of 23 governments, including Canada. Researchers Scott Sinclair…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part XX)

    Union in Colombia battles anti-union Canadian oil company In May 2012, the third edition of my report Profiting from Repression: Canadian Investment in and Trade with Colombia was published and released by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Ottawa. The report links ten Canadian companies in Colombia to…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Housing Needs of Indigenous Women Leaving Intimate Partner Violence in Northern Communities

    Download 860.83 KB 32 pages The problems of intimate partner violence and housing insecurity are independent issues and each worthy of discussion on their own. However, for women in northern communities these issues are often co-occurring. Violence is a major con­tributor to women experiencing homelessness, but the threat of homelessness…

  • HFCs Must Be Phased Out

    There is now scientific and political agreement that 21st century temperature rises must be kept between 1.5O to 2OC in order to avert full-scale climate catastrophe. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92°F (0.51O C) warmer than the mid-20th century baseline. Recent computer modeling estimates that global…

  • Red markers indicate dams currently being reviewed by the EAO’s office; yellow markers indicate water licences that Progress Energy applied for on December 23 of last year and where dams already existed.

    A Dam Troublesome Exception: Progress Energy’s dams should not be exempted from environmental review

    I sent the following letter to BC’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) in response to Progress Energy’s extraordinary request to retroactively exempt the Lily and Town dams from environmental reviews. Such reviews should have been conducted before the dams were built. Not only did those reviews not happen, but the company…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2015

    Challenging Society’s Perceptions About Poverty The harshness of the neoliberal agenda and the deep entrenchment of poverty and inequality was underscored earlier this year when several homeless people died on Toronto’s streets in the bitter cold. It reinforced the desperate need for a drastic shift in our national priorities to develop…

  • Youth employment measures in #bdgt14 do little to fix a big problem

    It’s not unreasonable to say that Canada has a youth employment crisis. The employment rate for youth in January was at one of its lowest points since the start of the recession, at 50.6%[i]. That’s only 0.1% higher than it was two years ago and down by a tenth compared…

  • Newfoundland and Labrador takes a risky turn toward P3s—warns new report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax,NS/St.John’s, NL—A new report released today, Many Dangers of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in Newfoundland and Labrador provides evidence about these deals that should make Newfoundlanders and Labradorians very concerned about how their government is making decisions when it comes to spending public revenue.…

  • October 2003: Canadian Mining Companies Set to Destroy Ghana’s Forest Reserves

    Under pressure from Canadian and U.S. mining companies, the Ghanaian government seems ready to pass legislation in June 2003 which will open the country’s protected forest reserves to mining. The companies’ bulldozers are ready to rip apart thousands of hectares of rainforest in the Ashanti, Eastern and Western Regions if…