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  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Innovations in Community Care

    From Pilot Project to System Change Download 782.56 KB61 pages This paper highlights positive examples of what is working well in home and community care in British Columbia. BC can boast of a number of local, small-scale initiatives that support people with significant health challenges who continue to live in…

  • Climate Justice Project
    Good Economy Project

    Imagine… A Working Carbon Tax for BC

    http://prezi.com/yo2xwhh0zjy9/imagine-a-working-carbon-tax-for-bc

  • Democracy

    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. Scroll down for a PDF version.  For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1918 The year women secured the right to…

  • New Economy Initiative (MB)

    Doing Community Economic Development

    Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays critically examine bottom-up, community economic development strategies in a wide variety of contexts: as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings; shaped and driven by women and by Aboriginal people; aimed at employment creation for the most marginalized. Most…

  • Reaction to the Tamil boat: curious comparisons

    If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. See, they came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the US in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me.…

  • The Harper Government’s War on Science

    Many scientific programs terminated, many scientists fired  Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, is investigating the muzzling of federal scientists, but far more troubling is the actual elimination of scientific programs and the firing of scientists. On that front, Canada’s federal environmental and oceans science and scientists have taken a terrible…

  • The Struggle Continues

    Indigenous peoples still suffering from rights violations Indigenous women today work with many issues ranging from domestic violence, youth gangs, child welfare issues, land rights, right through to helping frame the 1995 Bejing Declaration at the Fourth World Conference for Women. The Beijing Declaration was described as the most significant…

  • Security/Insecurity

    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. Scroll down for a PDF version.  For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1.4 million Number of Canadians officially unemployed in…

  • Solidarity should be common sense

    A few months back, Jim Stanford – in a provocative article entitled “When in doubt, blame unions” – noticed a troubling trend. Stanford observed that the current recession seemed to unleash a wave of public resentment against labour unions – as people, fearful of their own economic security – turned…

  • It Pays To Pay A Living Wage

    Canadian communities are embracing “living wage” campaigns Work should lift us out of poverty. It’s a simple aspiration, an equation many of us believe in, but one that eludes far too many Canadians. At last count, 1.8 million people working in this country were not earning enough to pull themselves…

  • Why BC’s lower-wage workers are struggling: The case for stronger employment standards

    BC has acquired the “distinction” of being home to Canada’s largest income gap, highest poverty rate, and second highest child poverty rate.  It also has greater employment insecurity and lower wages than the national average, even though BC is the province with the highest cost of living in Canada. How…

  • Inequality

    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. Scroll down for a PDF version.  For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index $6.6 million The average compensation of Canada’s best-paid…