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  • Minimum Wage Panel Moves Toward Goal Line, Passes Ball to Premier

    TORONTO – Today’s recommendation by the province’s Minimum Wage Advisory Panel to tie the province’s minimum wage to cost of living increases is both welcome news and unfinished business, said Trish Hennessy, Ontario Director of the CCPA. “The minimum wage glass is now half full,” said Hennessy. “This recommendation, if adopted, would…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Reconciliation Lives Here

    State of the Inner City Report 2016 This year’s State of the Inner City Report tackles arguably the most important issue of our time: healing and reconciling Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. A year and a half after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 94 Calls to Action were released,…

  • UNSPUN: Community Benefits in Procurement

    Elections are noisy and cluttered affairs that can make it difficult for some of the most promising, Manitoba-made policy innovations to get the attention they deserve. One of these policies is the use of day-to-day government purchasing to provide job and training opportunities for people with barriers to employment. Little-known…

  • CCPA report to HoC Finance Committee predicts large surpluses ahead

    OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, one of the independent forecasters commissioned by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, announced today that is once again forecasting surpluses much higher than the official government figures. In her report to the Committee CCPA Senior Economist Ellen Russell is predicting a…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The time is now for a legislated poverty reduction plan

    200 community organizations & leaders to BC political parties CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT On February 5, the CCPA’s BC Office joined with 200 other organizations from across the province as signatories to an open letter calling for a legislated poverty reduction plan. Together these groups launched a…

  • Living Wages in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick 2020

    Download 551.21 KB 28 pages The living wage was first calculated in Atlantic Canada in 2015 (Halifax). Antigonish was added in 2016 and Saint John, New Brunswick in 2018. Last year, we calculated the living wage rate for St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. This year we have added two more…

  • Upstream thinking, healthy society and reviving Canadian democracy

    Social factors play a significant role in determining whether we will be healthy or ill. Our health care is but one element of what makes the biggest difference in health outcomes. This has been understood for centuries, and empirically validated in recent decades with study after study demonstrating health inequalities…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Will LNG development blow BC’s carbon budget?

    Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is primarily caused by human use of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) for our energy needs. For the first time, however, the IPCC stated an upper limit on…

  • June 2004: The Indymedia Phenomenon

    The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be uploaded Wih the rise of “networked” society, we have seen the emergence of democratic social movements with a distinctly global orientation. Such movements are increasingly informed by, and dependent upon, information technologies and computer-mediated communication for their organizational activities, their ability…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Foreign ownership of telecom puts Canadian culture at risk—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The federal government will jeopardize Canadian culture by allowing foreign ownership of our telecommunications industry, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Authored by Julie White, a researcher with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, the study makes the…

  • Fast Facts: A vote for austerity is a vote for more suffering

    Lorrie Steeve’s distasteful comments about Aboriginal panhandlers set off a series of responses that reflected badly on many Winnipeggers.  The following week’s big story was the murder of Tina Fontaine and the suicide of Faron Hall. There followed a seemingly unrelated Free Press op ed about climate change, and another…

  • Seniors Care

    Seniors Fact Sheet: Social Support

    Click here to download this fact sheet <PDF> Enhancing Social Support for Seniors Living in BC Although it is important for seniors to “age in place,” they must also be able to leave their homes, carry out daily activities, engage in their community and visit friends and family. Supportive services…