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  • Fast Facts: Community plays an important role in poverty reduction

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on December 4th, 2015. I teach in the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Our program is located on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg’s North End.  A large number of our students have grown up poor. Some have not…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada at risk of lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

  • Photo: © Garth Lenz.

    Priming the pump

    Scientist warns cumulative effect of thousands of fracked gas wells means powerful earthquakes ahead for northeast BC Massive amounts of water pumped with brute force into the earth at thousands of fracking operations is priming the pump for potentially deadly earthquakes in British Columbia’s Montney basin, warns a former top…

  • Greenhouse gas emissions and the Energy East Pipeline

    I submitted the following to the National Energy Board, which is seeking comments on what should be included as part of the upcoming hearings on the proposed Energy East Pipeline. In particular, they are interested in arguments about the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions. The deadline for submissions is May…

  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC Hydro was so worried that its Peace Canyon dam could be badly damaged if an earthquake was triggered at a nearby natural gas industry disposal…

  • A pile of wood pellets is shown in front of a cross-section view of a stack of logs.

    Trees to pellets? Scarred by two previous resource industry boom and busts, pivotal decisions lie ahead for community of Fort Nelson

    The residents of Fort Nelson know better than most rural British Columbians about the harsh economic realities of resource dependency. It is now 13 years since the forest industry ditched the community in dramatic fashion when Canfor Corp. ceased all its local operations in the region and closed its plywood…

  • CCPA-NS responds to budget consultations

    In The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein shows that a perceived crisis can be used to frighten people into accepting unpopular “reforms” as “solutions,” such as shrinking of the state, privatization and the loss of public services.  But, she notes, a crisis can also motivate people to defend the institutions they…

  • Charting a path in uncertain times

    We live in increasingly unsettling times. Two world orders are chafing against each other: the rules-based international order, however imperfect, and the emerging strong man, power brokerage order. These approaches are in friction, and we don’t yet know what the outcome will be. Countries are rapidly trying to forge new…

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    Why Canada still needs a wealth tax—and what it could fund

    The rise of extreme inequality has provoked growing calls for an annual wealth tax on the super-rich around the world, and Canada is no exception. Backed by a growing body of economic research, proposals for a wealth tax have high levels of support among Canadians across party lines. Yet, an…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Research for Communities

    Poverty and Education in a low-income suburb It is outrageous that large numbers of children starting school in Winnipeg year after year are so poorly prepared that they are, relative to other kids, behind the “start line” from the beginning. In a great many cases they never catch up. Their…

  • People waiting before an orange colored ballot box on blue background.

    Platform Crunch 2: Comparing four parties’ tax cut and cash transfers promises

    Tax and cash transfer promises are flying fast and furiously in the first week of Canada’s 45th federal election.

    Earlier in the week, the Liberals came out with a promise to cut the lowest federal personal income tax rate from 15 per cent to 14 per cent and also cut the value of tax credits to match.

  • Find out how news deprived your community is

    The last 16 years have not been kind to local news outlets in Canada. Find out how your city fits into the bigger picture.