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  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VIII)

    Nicaragua benefits from joining Latin American Revolution In July 2009, Nicaragua celebrated 30 years of the Sandinista Revolution led by the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). In July 1979, the revolution ended 70 years of brutal U.S.-imposed dictatorship. Since 2006, the Sandinistas have been back in power in Nicaragua,…

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    Five things to know about the 2018 Alberta Budget

    Alberta’s 2018 budget was tabled on March 22, 2018. The official name of this year’s budget is Budget 2018: A Recovery Built to Last. Here are five things to know: This was largely a status quo budget. Total estimated provincial revenue for 2018-19 is $47.9 billion, compared with $46.9 billion in 2017-18.…

  • 75th Annual Commemorative 2009 Calendar

    The Regina Manifesto and the Birth of Social Democracy in Canada Download 468.25 KB14 pages One of the proudest and most significant achievements in Canadian history was the creation of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1933. This year (2008) marks the 75th anniversary of this memorable event, when unions,…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Fossil fuel peddling impedes BC’s progress toward a green future

    Based primarily on the creation of a carbon tax two years ago, the BC government has been propelled into the position of North American climate action leader. While there was much to applaud as first steps on climate action in BC’s 2008 “green” budget, two years later there remain some…

  • Fast Facts: It takes all day to be poor

    The State of the Inner City Report 2009 For the past five years, CCPA Manitoba has conducted inner-city research in collaboration with community-based organizations. The purpose of our research has been to chronicle the progress being made and to identify where problems continue to exist and how they might be…

  • Commodity-driven economic boost masks growing BC regional divide

    (Vancouver) Provincial taxation and spending policies have worsened the gap between BC’s two economies — the diversified Lower Mainland and Victoria areas, and the more resource-dependent ‘hinterland’ regions. Soutwestern BC received a skewed share of income tax cuts, while subsequent tax increases and spending cuts have hit harder in the…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Public health care planned for all of Latin America [Editor’s Note: The first half of this article, which is about Latin American integration, was published in the June Monitor. It dealt with the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the Bank of the South, and PetroAmerica, the petroleum company of…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Securing a Sustainable Future for BC’s Forest Communities

    Speech to the Stand Up for the North Conference Download 204.26 KB10 pages Excerpt: “Before talking a bit about where the opportunities lie to strengthen the hands of resource-dependent communities through forest policy changes, I thought it would be instructive to look at two events that occurred in and around…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Countries in Latin America move to regional integration “The people have risen like a great Lazarus… so let’s hurry with our unity, to speed up the changes that have already been on their way: the Bank of the South, the unity of our oil and energy companies, the social programs,…

  • The Importance of Bill C-474

    Our farms need to be saved from genetically modified crops With the release of its National Food Policy on April 26, the federal Liberal Party is hoping to make agriculture a key election issue. Courting the rural vote with the “Rural Canada Matters” policy document, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announced,…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    State of the Inner City Report 2013

    A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg Download 1.71 MB52 pages Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg for this year’s State of the Inner City Report. The CCPA’s Manitoba office worked with two…

  • Climate Justice Project

    BC’s reforestation crisis

    In less than a decade, British Columbia has gone from environmental leader to environmental laggard in stewarding one of our most important natural resources. And it could not come at a worse time, as we grapple with climate change and its horrendous impact on our forests. In what was once…