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  • 22.5% of N.S. children living in poverty: 2016 Child and Family Poverty Report Card

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX—While there was a slight decrease in child poverty nationally between 2013 and 2014, the child poverty rate in Nova Scotia remains stubbornly high, says the 2016 Nova Scotia Child and Family Poverty Report Card, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia…

  • Fast Facts: About the divide: It’s complicated

    Previously published by the Winnipeg Free Press online edition, November 1, 2014. Winnipeg’s divide is far more complex than Bartley Kives suggests in his article “High hopes for first indigenous Winnipeg Mayor.”(Winnipeg Free Press Saturday October 25). Having a self-identified Métis Mayor will undoubtedly dispel many of the negative stereotypes…

  • September 2005: International Loan Sharks

    G-8 relief of poor nations’ debt comes with strings attached When the G-8 finance ministers met in London in June, and agreed to write off $40 billion of the debt owed by the world’s poorest nations to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the African Development Bank, the…

  • A Sustainable Vision for Our Community

    Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality Download 1.82 MB80 pages A Sustainable Vision for our Community: Alternative Municipal Budget for the Halifax Regional Municipality is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 20 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations.  The Alternative Budget contains 65…

  • Canada’s GHG Commitment Problem

    For the past decade, Canada’s GHG emission targets were framed by the Kyoto Protocol, in which Canada committed to a 6% reduction in emissions by 2012 relative to 1990 levels (590 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or Mt CO2e). In spite of signing this treaty and its ratification through…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Competitiveness vs. public benefits: The LNG tax and regulatory regime

    This fall’s legislative sitting will be an important one for shaping the future of LNG in BC. Will one or more companies make final investment decisions? And if they do will there be any public benefits? One of the key questions is whether the BC government will cave on its…

  • Competitiveness vs public benefits: the LNG tax and regulatory regime

    This Fall’s legislative sitting will be an important one for shaping the future of LNG in BC. Will one or more companies make final investment decisions? And if they do will there be any public benefits? One of the key questions is whether the BC government will cave on its proposed 7%…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC MLAs take wrong approach to timber supply crisis

    Ever since mid May, when a special committee of the provincial legislature was appointed to address a looming “timber supply” crisis, questions have arisen about what the committee would say about one community in particular. That community is Burns Lake where, in January, a violent explosion and fire leveled the…

  • Grocery Wars: Lessons from Canada’s Changing Retail Landscape

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  • Making Women Count

    Hennessy’s Index: March 2015

    About Women Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index Half Number of women in Canada who have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of…

  • July 2005: Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

    U.S. dependence on oil drives its efforts to control what’s left When Paul Martin met with George Bush and Vicente Fox in Texas last March to chart further continental integration (while Martin’s neo-liberal competitor for the Liberal Party crown, John Manley, was pushing for even further subordination of Canada’s economic…

  • Where’s Our Danny Boy (2)? Mayor of embattled town weighs in on needed forest reforms

    Few British Columbia communities have been hit as hard by the forest industry crisis as Mackenzie. Some 1,500 jobs, by mayor Stephanie Killam’s estimate, have been lost in the community as sawmills, planer mills and pulp and paper mills closed. With hundreds of good paying mill jobs gone, jobs in…