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  • Free trade has failed to live up to its promises—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Twenty years after Canada signed the Free Trade Agreement its biggest boosters have grown wealthier but promises ofbetter jobs and rising living standards fell short, says a study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement was…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Eliminating Tuition and Compulsory Fees for Post-Secondary Education

    Download 134.02 KB7 pages In today’s rapidly changing economy, a truly affordable and accessible post-secondary education system needs to be a top priority. The current system, with its high up-front costs and resulting unsustainable levels of student debt, acts as a barrier for many people to full participation in the…

  • Ignatieff and Asbestos

    Liberals need to make anti-asbestos stand official policy With the federal Liberals now semi- officially supporting the banning of Canadian asbestos exports, a political debate that had been suppressed for over 20 years is truly beginning. So long as the Bloc, the Conservatives and the Liberals supported this lethal industry,…

  • Reflections on the Citizens’ Assembly

    One of the most interesting stories behind BC’s Single Transferable Vote referendum is how we got there. The Citizen’s Assembly on Electoral Reform ran for a year, a fascinating exercise in deliberative democracy, and perhaps the most interesting and forward-looking thing done by the Liberals in their first term. Wendy…

  • Engaging communities with participatory planning

    It was 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in late June. Kids and parents trickled into the playground. There was a buzz outside Dr. Edgar Davey Elementary School in central Hamilton, Ontario. School was almost done and the excitement was palpable.

  • Time for a New Social Contract to Eradicate Child and Family Poverty

    Halifax – The 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that 35,870 children or more than 1 in 5 children in Nova Scotia were living in poverty in 2015. As primary author, Acadia University Professor Lesley Frank says, “We should celebrate the fact that 1,600…

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    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    When workers’ jobs are shifted from the public service to for-profit corporations, does anything change?

    The BC Government’s Alternative Service Delivery Plan in practice When a meter-reader comes to your home to check your monthly electricity consumption, they wear a BC Hydro uniform, but they are, in fact, no longer employees of BC Hydro. They work for Accenture, a Bermuda-based, for-profit, multinational corporation. Similarly, when…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2009

    Beyond Child’s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada How we care for our children says everything about the communities we create and the kind of society in which we live, and how we can collectively make them even better. This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves takes a…

  • Une étude préconise une commission d’enquête indépendante sur la catastrophe de Lac‑Mégantic

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA – Selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les enquêtes sur la catastrophe de Lac-Mégantic – la plus complète étant le rapport du mois d’août 2014 du Bureau de la sécurité des transports – laissent encore trop…

  • Bangladeshis Victims of Corporate Exploitation

    Western companies responsible for deaths of garment workers In April 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 garment workers and injuring more than 2,500. The building contained four garment factories. This was the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh’s history, and the worst in the garment sector’s…

  • Minimum Wage: Staying the course right decision

    The Minimum Wage Review Committee, with representatives from labour and business organizations at the table, is an example of how public policy should be made –based on meaningful participation from those who understand the issues from different perspectives, and using a solid evidence-base. But missing from the table is a…

  • Think Upstream

    Living wages make communities more resilient

    Trish Hennessy knows inequality. The founding director of the CCPA's project to examine increasing income inequality in Canada recently gave a Walrus Talk on resilience, and the key importance of making a living wage for weathering life's challenges. She also sat down with Upstream founder Ryan Meili, to discuss why living wages are so important in Canada for healthy lives, healthy communities and a healthy economy.

    “We accept a minimum wage so low that even if you’re working full time, you are among the working poor. That’s a category that we could write off.” “Living wage can help inform how to raise the minimum wage.” “The fact that we care so much about our own health…