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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Richard talks about poverty and hope

    https://vimeo.com/3670615 Richard receives disability benefits through British Columbia’s welfare program. Disability benefits are very low (less than $1000 a month in a city where the average one bedroom apartment costs that much). Richard lived on the streets for many years while he waited to get into social housing — he…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Shortchanged

    https://vimeo.com/3842584 A short video featuring CCPA resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt discussing findings showing that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and big increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Shortchanged: Tallying the Legacy…

  • Submission to the Minister of Finance Government of Manitoba On the 2002-2003 Provincial Budget

    Thank you for the opportunity to present our views on the province’s fiscal situation and the upcoming provincial budget. Once again this year we are preparing an Alternative Provincial Budget, which will be finalized and released in the months ahead. Context In last year’s Alternative Provincial Budget we ran a…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s fossil-fuel sector controlled by a few major players—including the five big banks, new study shows

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping Project study reveals. “Substantial ownership and strategic control of Canada’s fossil fuel industry are in the…

  • State of the Inner City Report Launch

    Celebrating 10 years of community-based research: the 2014 State of the Inner City Report launch Tuesday December 16, 2014 Circle of Life Thunderbird House 715 Main Street Lunch 11:30 am Program – 12-1:15 pm Poverty in Winnipeg’s inner city is often a topic of public and media attention, but neighbourhood-level…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part IV)

    Saudi Arabia helps crush the democratic uprising in Bahrain In a display of astounding hypocrisy in mid-August, the Saudi Arabian government denounced the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “a killing machine” and recalled its ambassador from Damascus. Saudi Arabia claimed to be outraged by the slaughter of an estimated…

  • Fast Facts: Meeting the housing needs of Aboriginal people moving to Winnipeg

    Winnipeg is home to Canada’s largest Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people, however, are among the most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing that is unaffordable, overcrowded or in poor condition. Finding housing has become a wall preventing many Aboriginal people from successfully making Winnipeg home. Moving to…

  • Manitoba’s Climate & Green Plan

    Catastrophic Failure of Leadership Last week, the Manitoba government announced it would amend Bill 16, the “Climate and Green Plan,” to eliminate its flat $25/tonne carbon tax, leaving it essentially empty of any real action on climate change. Just a few days later, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—the…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: The Role of Labour in the Green Industrial Revolution

    Canada is well behind other developed – and some lesser-developed countries – in shifting gears to a green economy. Other countries are supporting green enterprises with targeted programs and subsidies.  But Canadian NGOs, social enterprises and green entrepreneurs are largely on their own. There are many reasons – not the…

  • Many families left out of federal budget

    The Harper government wants you to believe that average families are squarely at the centre of their budget spending this year. Before you celebrate this “something for everyone” approach to politics, consider this: A striking number of Canadians actually won’t benefit from much of what is promised in this budget.…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part X)

    Peruvian election win latest triumph for left-wing reformers Ollanta Humala’s victory in the Peruvian election held on June 5 is the latest triumph for the Latin American Revolution. Humala, a progressive ex-army officer, was elected President as leader of the Nationalist Party. This brings to eleven the number of left-wing…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC

    Download 751.9 KB 65 pages This report lays out a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for BC. In 2009, after the report was published, the CCPA-BC, along with other organizations, founded the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, a province-wide group calling for a poverty reduction plan for BC with legislated targets and…