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  • Fast Facts: A Made-in-Manitoba Tragedy of the Commons

    In February, a provincial news release about changes to agricultural crown advised that “The Manitoba government has launched a consultation focused on agricultural Crown lands, to ensure upcoming policy changes reflect the views of the livestock industry while improving fairness and transparency in the system […]”. How will these changes…

  • Idle No More: History Catching Up

    First Nations honoured treaties, Canadian governments didn’t  The immediate impact of the “Idle No More” protests has been, if nothing else, a rare, sustained focus on First Nations and their role in and relationship with Canada. The ensuing dialogue, however, has not on the whole been an ennobling one. Too…

  • Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment

    The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can increase student and youth employment without direct state intervention in the economy via wage subsidies and/or direct student employment programs. According to the OECD, if…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Remarks to a Town Hall Meeting on the CETA

    Last week I spoke along with Maude Barlow and Paul Moist at a well-attended public meeting in Charlottetown on the Canada – European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).  The PEI meeting was the last stop in a cross-country tour by Maude and Paul. Here are my opening remarks.…

  • Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2013

    Bullying: Working together to break the silence This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves talks about standing up against bullying—inside and outside the classroom— and calling out and naming oppressors. It also brings to light some of the challenges of defining and solving bullying in schools, and explores how we can…

  • Aboriginal Peoples Fight For All Canadians

    We should join the First Nations in becoming “idle no more” The day after Stephen Harper finally agreed (Jan. 4, 2013) to meet with First Nations leaders, alert readers of the National Post’s on-line edition for Jan. 5 may have experienced a moment of cognitive dissonance. The headline stated: “Idle…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Media advisory: Public policy experts available to comment on Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

    OTTAWA AND VANCOUVER — With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier John Horgan and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley set to meet Sunday in Ottawa on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX), policy experts are available to provide a fact-based response about the project, and an analysis of the vested…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    A windfall for BC’s five biggest forest companies?

    Shortly before the May election, the provincial government withdrew legislation that could have handed de facto control of publicly owned forestlands to a handful of forest companies. The contentious sections of the bill were dropped amid a swelling chorus of questions about why such a gift would be bestowed without…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Scrap subsidies to oil and gas companies and enforce tight timeline to eliminate industry’s unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions, new report urges province

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–Efforts to cut BC’s greenhouse gas emissions will fail unless the province ends subsidies to oil and gas companies, raises the royalties those companies pay and imposes tough regulations that end wasteful industry practices, a new study concludes. Foot Off the Gas: Regulating BC’s Oil…

  • New report looks at value of publicly-owned Manitoba Hydro

    For immediate release (Winnipeg): A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s (CCPA) Manitoba office: Manitoba Hydro, the Long View argues the publicly owned crown corporation offers economic and social benefits that would be lost if the crown were privatized. This sentiment was reflected in the Probe Research…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Softwood Lumber Agreement spells trouble for jobs in BC’s forest-dependent communities

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The new Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement, if it is ratified by the Canadian Parliament, spells bad news for BC’s forest-dependent communities. According to a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report, the deal will dampen efforts to move BC’s forest industry up…

  • BC can afford major new investments in the common good

    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 BC has the financial means to make major differences in the lives of British Columbians. The…