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  • Contract U

    Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities Download 825.99 KB56 pages Canadian universities are relying heavily on precariously-employed faculty on campus. Once among the most secure professions in the country, by 2016-17 contract jobs in the sector accounted for the majority (53.6 per cent) of all university faculty appointments, according to data…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2011

    Critical Mass: A primer for social change What do progressive people do when they realize that there are victories we can no longer take for granted, particularly when we see some of those hard-fought victories being eroded? What do we do when we realize that what we’re doing now —…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Fix carbon tax by ending corporate tax breaks, using revenues for climate action and new tax credit: study

    (Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Sierra Club BC calls on the provincial government to scale up BC’s carbon tax, and makes a number of recommendations to make the tax more effective and fair.   “As currently structured, the BC carbon tax is increasing…

  • Fast Facts: Economic and Fiscal Priorities

    We need to get them right In recent months the Manitoba branch of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has been calling for immediate action to eliminate provincial budget deficits. In 2010, for example, it demanded action to deal with excess spending and a serious deficit problem and proposed a five-point plan…

  • Study shows growing gap between the richest and poorest families: 2003-2006

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — For the past thirty years, the richest in the province have secured the lion’s share of Saskatchewan’s economic growth, while those at the lower end of the income spectrum have made few or no gains over the same period. That is…

  • People don’t want cuts in government services: Ipsos-Reid

    An Ipsos-Reid poll of 800 British Columbians indicates people would rather see a deficit than see public services slashed. The poll was conducted in early August for the BC Federation of Labour.  It shows a solid majority of British Columbians disaprove of the way the government is handling the economic…

  • 14,000 children in Nova Scotia still living in poverty is 14,000 too many

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX, NS –Twenty-one years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000. In 2000, not only had they not kept the promise, but the child poverty rate was even higher. Today, 10 years after the goal date,…

  • Canada and the next financial crisis

    How will the next financial crisis erupt? (Or perhaps we should say a further chapter of the ongoing financial crisis).  It’s like figuring out which piece of tinder will ignite after a sizzling heat wave. We know it’s bad out there, but just where will the next spark hit?  What…

  • Following the money in BC communities

    It is one of those publications that few media outlets will report on, and even fewer British Columbians will read, but BC Stats just released the latest version of its Local Area Economic Dependencies, updated based on 2006 census data. This publication basically asks where the income in various BC…

  • New Campbell government needs to make poverty reduction a focus

    During the recent provincial election campaign, Premier Campbell was repeatedly asked by reporters and citizens if a re-elected Liberal government would bring in a comprehensive poverty reduction plan with legislated targets and timelines. On each occasion, he said no. Instead, the premier insisted his goal is “to have the lowest…

  • Budget 2017/18 Empty on the Environment

    Antiquated Ideas Manitoba budget and speech 2017 reflects regression, misses link between protecting environment and lowering health care costs On April 11 the government introduced a budget devoid of initiatives on protecting the lands and waters of the province, while at the same time cutting departmental budgets for water stewardship,…

  • Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change

    Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba is to inform social movements and to provide them the arguments they need to advocate for…