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  • Takeover of Canadian companies all too easy

    Globalization, it might be thought, has run its course. The worst free marketeer of them all, George W. Bush, is isolated in the White House, watching the American economy recede, financial chaos spread, and the world slowly burn. His odds-on successor, Barack Obama, is pro-business but chary of a globalization…

  • Idea Factory

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number 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 Bike Superhighway Like the one they built in Copenhagen: 11 miles of paved bike…

  • CCPA-SK organizes Citizens’ Budget Commission

    The Saskatchewan government appointed a commission to review business taxes in Saskatchewan earlier in the year.  This Business Tax Commission will release its report on Thursday, Nov. 24th. “We are concerned about what this report will look like,” says Dr. Jim Mulvale, Research Associate with the Saskatchewan office of the…

  • Making Women Count

    Abortion and Women’s Rights

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number 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 1892 The year parliament “criminalized the distribution and advertisement of contraceptives. Abortion became recognized…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Un institut de recherche demande au fédéral de laisser tomber ses plans de compressions des dépenses

    L’Alternative budgétaire propose plutôt un budget pour le reste d’entre nous CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT OTTAWA – Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à déposer un budget qui redonne aux Canadiens confiance dans l’économie, les institutions publiques et la démocratie. Avec la publication de…

  • A toxic spill and communications chill

    So here’s the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission feels for whatever reasons the public is best kept in the dark about. The incident occurred on August 19 of last year when…

  • Services for at-risk youth in BC: moving from dysfunction to effective support

    Guest blogger Diana Guenther drew on extensive work experience in social services to develop her Masters of Urban Studies thesis on improving services for at-risk youth in BC. She shares some of her key recommendations here: Having worked with at risk youth for 15 years and in three different countries,…

  • Education Project

    University education in Canada becoming less affordable: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Average tuition and compulsory fees for Canadian undergraduate students are estimated to rise almost 18% over the next four years, from almost $6,200 in 2011-12 to over $7,300, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study…

  • Temporary foreign workers need more rights, not better enforcement of flawed policy

    On June 20, Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney announced a raft of changes to the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), including a moratorium (now lifted) on the hiring of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in the food services sector. The TFWP program has attracted controversy since at…

  • Labour unions in the 21st century?

    The preservation of past experience in cultural memory too often fails to stick, with serious social consequences. Without an adequate understanding of the past we are bound to misunderstand the present. And misunderstanding the present hampers our ability to realize future goals. But can we forget something we did not…

  • The Sustainability Challenge

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number 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 75,000 Square kilometres of Arctic sea ice that melted every day in August 2012.…

  • Transcript of an interview with Armine Yalnizyan on Sunday Edition

    ROY ROMANOW (Commissioner, The Future of Health Care): As you know it was just a year and a half ago that the Prime Minister established the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada and gave me the honour of serving as its sole commissioner. I must stop there…