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  • The Conservative government’s record comes under fire in new e-book

    OTTAWA—Today the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released The Harper Record, the most comprehensive analysis of the Conservative minority government’s record to date. “Scheduled for broad release in early October, we are releasing the electronic version of this book today, to help Canadians make informed choices about the future…

  • The BC government could start with local purchasing to build jobs in our communities

    The BC government has been heavily promoting its “jobs plan” over the last week on television, radio and on the internet. On twitter they invited people to come on line to give their ideas about what could be done to promote more jobs in communities. But there is one idea…

  • Four planks for a bold and progressive BC jobs agenda

    BC needs a revitalized jobs plan. The provincial government’s narrow focus on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) hasn’t worked. The government hitched BC’s economic wagon to the elusive investment decisions of foreign transnational corporations, and to the ups and downs of international commodity prices, and the hoped-for investment simply didn’t materialize.…

  • Federal communication policies leave Canadians unplugged say communication scholars

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–“After the dot.com bubble burst, who trusts Bill Gates to point out the road ahead?” asks Vincent Mosco, holder of the Canadian Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen’s University and contributor to Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice: Communications in the…

  • September 2008: A New Pension Debate?

    Most workers today are facing bleak retirement prospects Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a big Canadian pensions debate, centred mainly on the issue of how to address the then pressing problem of poverty and income security in old age. Launched by the NDP, the labour movement and…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2010

    The Achievement Agenda: Education or Evaluation? A struggle dominates education these days. It is a struggle between demands for standardization and the reality of diversity. This issue of Our Schools / Our Selves speaks to many of the various concepts that impact and are impacted by education — and are…

  • Revision to CCPA’s 2008 executive compensation report

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—In the CCPA’s annual review of executive compensation in Canada released January 4, 2010 (A Soft Landing: Recession and Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs), an oversight was inadvertently made in reporting the value of stock options issued by the National Bank in 2008 to its…

  • The Case for Economic Planning

    Companies plan for the future. Why shouldn’t governments? Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne recently unveiled Chrysler’s five-year operating plan. That a corporation should develop a strategic plan for the future seemed unsurprising and sensible to the reporters covering his press conference. How else could a large, complex organization function? But if…

  • Frack Attack

    New, dirty gas drilling method threatens drinking water A technology used by the oil and gas industry to obtain natural gas is raising major concerns across the United States and is equally suspect for areas being drilled in Western Canada. Called hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking” in the trade), it allows…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Cities and Civic Workers

    The Union Role in Building Better Cities Book Review Although Carlo Fanelli’s book Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto is not about Winnipeg, it offers many insights applicable to Winnipeg and to other Canadian cities. Fanelli is a former Toronto civic employee who looks at civic issues…

  • Economics for Everyone, First Edition

    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Economics is too important to be left to the economists. Economics for Everyone is a brilliantly concise and readable book that provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn’t).  Jim Stanford’s book…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Une politique fiscale progressiste et des investissements judicieux pourront sortir près d’un million de personnes de la pauvreté et résorber certaines inégalités : selon institut de recherches

    Un groupe d’experts sur les politiques publiques presse les libéraux de réaliser leurs promesses progressistes CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA — Le Budget fédéral alternatif (BFA) de 2018, publié aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien des politiques alternatives (CCPA), trace un itinéraire du…