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  • Election 2011 UNSPUN: Winnipeg’s Inner City and North End Neighbourhoods

    Lessons from Ten Years of Research The inner city suddenly becomes important to politicians during elections. Some political parties choose to focus solely on crime and fear. The approach they take is punitive, shaped, we believe, from a lack of understanding of how complex challenges really are. Others have a…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    BC seniors’ residential and home care: Less access, increased privatization, new report finds

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Despite the BC government’s recent $500 million injection of funding into the home and community care system, much remains to be done to provide adequate care for seniors and improve health care wait times for all British Columbians, says a new report released…

  • How to fund improvements in class-size and composition: a matter of political will

    If a compromise is to be reached in the current bargaining between teachers and the government, the long-standing issue of improving class-size and composition must be resolved. The government insists that there is no money to make substantial improvements in this area (notwithstanding multiple court losses telling the province that…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Public housing plays an essential role in Manitoba’s housing system

    Public housing plays an essential role in Manitoba’s housing system. It provides a specific form of housing: housing that has been removed from the market by focusing on its use as a home, rather than on its potential for financial gain, in order to make it affordable to low-income households.…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2009

    Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: Professional judgment, authentic learning and creative classrooms Attachments Table of Contents and Editorial The Student’s Freedom to Learn Requires the Educator’s Freedom to Teach “Not Mining is Not An Option!” Corporate lessons from the Mining Matters curriculum Book Review – About Canada: Childcare

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    L’Alternative budgétaire le répète : Ne réduisons plus les impôts et agissons plutôt

    OTTAWA – Le gouvernement de Stephen Harper doit abandonner sa propension à réduire les impôts et investir pour régler les problèmes urgents auxquels se heurtent les Canadiens, selon l’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral 2008, diffusée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives. L’ABF 2008 semonce le gouvernement minoritaire…

  • UNSPUN: Regulating Fringe Banking in Manitoba – a work in progress

    By SEED Winnipeg Since 2007 the Manitoba government has undertaken a series of steps to regulate fringe banks. Arguably this is contributing to the common good, because of the growth of fringe financial services and the process of financialization. Financialization is reflected in the increasing size and importance of financial…

  • Discussing “Just Transition” with Karen Cooling

    In late January, we at the CCPA came out with a paper about “just transition”—an approach that aims to minimize the impact of environmental policies on workers and communities in affected industries—for resource workers. Drawing on extensive interviews with workers in several resource industries, our report informs a strategy to…

  • February 2008: Time For Environmental Keynesianism

    Planet Earth can be saved. Susan George tells us how. Over the past four or five years, as the CCPA’s senior editor, I’ve probably read at least 500 articles and essays on climate change and its threat to life on this planet. Many of the articles were written by eminent…

  • The Ministry of Labour’s fight to hide Employment Standards violations makes a mockery of the Freedom of Information process

    Update: Since publication of this editorial the Ministry of Labour has reviewed its decision to not waive the records production fee, and has decided to comply with the Commissioner’s order. For three years now, the BC government has been fighting requests to disclose Employment Standards enforcement records. Whither freedom of…

  • Provincial Goverment, Universities and Community Groups sign new agreement

    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, together with community partners is holding a community celebration to mark a new partnership with Universitas—a global information sharing initiative that will connect Winnipeg inner city stories with stories from around the world.  This relationship will promote the knowledge, innovations, policies, actions, research and…

  • Flat Tax a Lose-Lose Proposition

    On the surface, Enterprise Saskatchewan’s call for a 10 percent flat tax seems straightforward. Saskatchewan must engage in a “race-to-the-bottom” in order to compete with Alberta. However, a cursory glance at other countries that have instituted their own flat tax proposals should be cause for concern. The so-called “Baltic Tigers”…