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  • Good Economy Project

    In growing good jobs for BC’s economy, we’ve been neglecting a key ingredient

    As the promise of British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas bubble has begun to deflate, the conversation on how to grow good jobs in BC’s economy has been overlooking a key ingredient: food. A recent report by researcher Brent Mansfield issues a wake up call for the province’s current and long-term…

  • Legislative review of FOI Act narrow and timid

    A legislative committee reviewing BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act reported on May 31st and the results were disappointing.  They certainly did not live up to the previous legislative review in 2004.  Back then government backbenchers on the Committee made recommendations leaders of the government didn’t like. …

  • Privacy, Facebook and a New Information and Privacy Commissioner

    Sometimes personal and policy issues collide or at least slide in side-by-side.  That happened for me when the BC Legislature appointed Elizabeth Denham as the province’s new Information and Privacy Commissioner on May 6th.  Denham’s biography shows she has a strong background in privacy issues.  From 2003 to 2007 she…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Should Canada be completing a trade deal in the middle of an election?

    The Obama administration is pulling out all the stops to wrap up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations this week. Trade ministers, including Canada’s Ed Fast, have been summoned to Atlanta for what is intended to be a final session. The participation of Fast will be controversial back in Canada, where…

  • Nova Scotians subsidizing minimum wage employers: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX: Nova Scotia has not had a real minimum wage increase in more than 20 years, according to a report release today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS).  “Time for a Real Raise: The Nova Scotia Minimum Wage,”…

  • Hennessy’s Index: February 2015

    The Appeal of Middle Class Economics 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 52% Percentage of Canadians who self-identify as middle class when asked to describe their “social and financial…

  • Mount Polley Mine dam collapse compels us to review resource development regulations

    At this point, we don’t know exactly what caused the collapse in the large dam holding mining wastewater and contaminated sediment – also known as tailings – at the Mount Polley Mine. This is why we need the inquiry which the BC government announced earlier this week. It remains to…

  • Policy Points: Cornerstone Compromised

    A critical analysis of changes to Special Needs Assistance in Nova Scotia This 4-page factsheet offers a short summary of the report, Cornerstone Compromised: A Critical Analysis of Changes to Special Needs Assistance in Nova Scotia. Attachments Policy Points: Cornerstone Compromised

  • Study calls for independent inquiry into Lac-Mégantic disaster

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Investigations to date into the Lac-Mégantic disaster—the most comprehensive of which is the August 2014 Transportation Safety Board (TSB) report—leave too many unanswered questions, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by CCPA Executive Director…

  • Canada’s Ongoing Involvement in Dirty Wars

    Like the U.S., Canada is “outsourcing” warfare in Afghanistan The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) published its latest of many reports last February, indicating that the United States has increasingly relied on Special Operations Forces to project force abroad throughout the Global War on Terror. The latest CRS report predicts…

  • Hennessy’s Index: January 2015

    Political Divides 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 62% Percentage of Canadians who place themselves along the middle of the political spectrum, according to an Environics survey of public…

  • Where do we stand with Uncle Sam?

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and James Lorimer & Co. Ltd. are pleased to announce the publication of Living with Uncle: Canada US Relations in an Age of Empire, a timely new book that offers fresh insights by leading thinkers on the…