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  • Conservative child-care plan comes at high price

    Balancing child care and employment has become a growing challenge for households. Families are increasingly dependent upon two incomes. In 2003, more than 75 per cent of two-parent households relied on dual incomes. The challenge for single parents is even more daunting as they seek to balance nurturing, homework and…

  • Why Governments Can Safely Ignore Hunger

    Corporate food charity keeps hunger off political agenda Over the past 30 years, Canadians have increasingly been led to believe that community compassion expressed through charitable food handouts is the most effective way of feeding our hungry poor and homeless. Since the establishment of the first food banks in the…

  • New Brunswick Tax Reform – ineffective, regressive and unsustainable

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The government’s tax reform package is based on the belief that income tax cuts have the power to provide a strong stimulus to the provincial economy, and thus are considered self-financing. “Not only is there little to no empirical evidence to support this…

  • Targeting generic instead of brand-name drugs not the best way to lower Ontario’s drug costs

    The Ontario government has recently announced major changes to the way that it will pay for generic drugs. The aim is to rein in rapidly increasing costs for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. Generics help make public drug plans affordable, but, to get used, they need to be dispensed by…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part IX)

    Argentina was rescued from neoliberalism by Néstor Kirchner At the end of October, Argentina lost its economic saviour who made the country part of the Latin American Revolution. Néstor Kirchner, former President of Argentina and husband of the current President, Cristina Fernandez-Kirchner, died on October 27 from a heart attack.…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: More than a Dream

    Many of us have, like John Lennon, imagined a world without war, greed, hunger or possessions. There are those rare individuals who insist that we should settle for nothing less, that humankind’s true heart is to live in communities guided by understanding, compassion and social justice. This year May Works…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Every bite counts: Government must set menu for BC’s food system in face of climate change

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report is calling on the BC government to take action to make BC’s food system work better for farmers, eliminate hunger, shift away from imported products, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Every Bite Counts: Climate Justice and BC’s…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The US wants a NAFTA deal this month; Canada should say no

    Lighthizer, Guajardo and Freeland feeling the NAFTA love in April.For the past four weeks, NAFTA negotiators in Washington, D.C., have been working around the clock to reach an agreement in principle before the U.S. and Mexican electoral calendars sideline the Trump administration’s hopes for a speedy deal. Due to the…

  • Comments on the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23)

    The CCPA was invited to appear before The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to present on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act. Patti Tamara Lenard, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CCPA Research Associate, presented…

  • Poorly designed third party advertising rules chilled election debate, reduced voter access to information: Study

    (Vancouver) A new study finds that BC’s third party advertising rules caused extensive problems for “small spenders” such as non-profits and charities during the 2009 provincial election. The rules – brought in through the controversial Bill 42 in 2008 – led to widespread confusion, wasted resources, anxiety and self-censorship among…

  • Climate Justice Project

    So What’s a Green Job, Anyway?

    Today the CCPA released a new report by myself and Ken Carlaw, an economist at UBC-Okanagan, that looks at industrial and employment strategies the BC government can use to transition to a sustainable economy and create a new generation of well-paying green jobs. We started with an ecological economics perspective…

  • La privatisation : le cheval de Troie des services publics

    Une des principales dynamiques de notre époque est la pression exercée sur les gouvernements pour offrir plus de services publics en utilisant moins de ressources. La population vieillit, l’infrastructure urbaine se détériore et, avec l’immigration et la mondialisation croissantes du commerce, tous les paliers de gouvernement font face à une…