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  • SaskNotes: PFRA Community Pastures

    History and Drama of a Prairie Commons Download 2.76 MB8 pages Once the victim of hasty prairie settlement, the PFRA Community Pastures became grassland jewels through belated foresight and science-based planning. The termination of this world-class program was embedded in omnibus bill C-38, with ownership of the land returned to…

  • Hennessy’s Index: November 2014

    Minimum Wage 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 4 Number of decades that the average of provincial minimum wages in Canada has remained unchanged in real terms. [Source] $10.14…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Invest surplus in program enhancement, not costly tax cut agenda–report

    OTTAWA–Despite recently well-publicized spending commitments, the federal government will post surpluses totaling $24.1 billion over the next three years, according to the Alternative Federal Budget’s (AFB) Economic and Fiscal Update. In keeping with the Chretien-Martin Liberals’ practice of amassing significant surpluses–belying dire economic predictions from the Finance Department–the AFB forecasts…

  • November 2004: From Monroe to Bush to Martin?

    “Failed state” doctrine used to justify overthrow of Haiti’s democracy “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones…We must defeat these threats to our nation, allies, and friends.”- United States National Security Strategy, September 2002 “By the sheer immensity of its weight on the…

  • Northern Territories more vulnerable to trade treaties–report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Canada’s three northern territories are even more vulnerable than the provinces to the impacts of international trade treaties signed by the federal government, warns a new book released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The book is entitled Globalization…

  • Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care–report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–If health-care activists don’t scrutinize where the recently announced over $41 billion in health-care spending is going, it could make the money squandered in the federal sponsorship scandal look like loot bags at a one-year-old’s birthday party, says the author of a new…

  • Hennessy’s Index: October 2014

    Good Jobs | Bad Jobs 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 112,000 That’s the number of private sector jobs that disappeared in Canada in August 2014. [Source] 87,000 That’s…

  • May 2005: Canadian Workers’ Rights Assaulted

    Collective bargaining more an illusion than a right Based on the premise that labour rights are human rights, Canadians have seen a serious erosion of a fundamental and universal human right in the past two decades—their right to organize into a union and engage in full and free collective bargaining. …

  • Does size (of government) matter?

    When Canadians went to the polls last June they chose, in policy terms, new spending by the federal government over shrinking government through more tax cuts. In so doing, they rejected arguments that higher public spending would inevitably undermine Canada’s economic performance, or conversely, that reducing the size of government…

  • Hennessy’s Index: September 2014

    Crude: Lac-Mégantic By the Numbers 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 72 Number of rail cars carrying Bakken crude oil that crashed into the Quebec community of Lac-Mégantic in…

  • Reflections on the year past and the year to come: Inequality explodes into the public discourse

    If this past year  — marked by the Arab Spring and the fall arrival of the Occupy movement — has taught us anything, it is that we never know when historic moments come. And when they do, that which seemed political impossible is suddenly in play. Many of us found…

  • May 2006: Our Troops Shouldn’t Be There

    British and Soviet empires both failed in Afghanistan (Why is Canada trying to help the U.S. empire succeed?) The February release of a poll on the war in Afghanistan spread panic among our political and military leaders. The Strategic Counsel poll, taken between Feb. 16 and 19, reported that 62%…