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  • Making Women Count

    The Best and Worst Place to be a Woman in Canada

    An Index of Gender Equality in Canada’s Twenty Largest Metropolitan Areas Download 715.37 KB58 pages This study reveals the best and worst places to be a woman in Canada. It ranks Canada’s 20 largest metropolitan areas based on a comparison of how men and women are faring in five areas:…

  • Searching the Past for Policy Alternatives

    Ways to a better future to be learned from “commons” past When Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work restoring the credibility of the self-governing commons, she boosted the revival of this alternative to state or market control. Its heritage is huge and hugely important, especially for…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Drop the Stereotypes, and Deal with the Real Problem

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 28, 2018 In August the Free Press published an article (Safety complaints at Lord Selkirk Park, Aug. 24, 2018) that painted a very negative picture of Lord Selkirk Park, a large Manitoba Housing complex in Winnipeg’s North End. The story claimed that…

  • Soft rock and a soft touch

    Trove of FOI documents sheds new light on lax regulation of troubled Site C dam It was the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting for a box of Timbits and a Double-Double at the Tim Hortons’ drive thru.  In the space of just hours on a single day in June 2020, the…

  • BC First Nations are poised to lead the renewable energy transition

    These are exciting times in British Columbia for those interested in building sustainable, just and climate-friendly energy systems. The recent change in government could mean a shift away from a corporate agenda driven by the needs of a massively energy-intensive fracking and LNG industry towards one that prioritizes action on…

  • Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History

    We’re proud that over 1,500 people subscribe to this free fast facts service. The best way to ensure progressive research continues to be published in Manitoba is by supporting the CCPA-MB. Help us continue to do community-based research and commentary on issues of social justice and environmental sustainability. To find…

  • Yes Mr. Harper It Is A Sociological Phenomenon

    This piece originally appeared on Blogging for Equality. Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights Issues Breakthrough Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls The Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights has provided a direct answer to Prime Minister Harper: Yes, the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls are a…

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    Closing the Gap between a living wage and minimum wages in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Our detailed submission outlines reasoning and evidence to support key recommendations to ensure that the minimum wage provides sufficient protection for workers in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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    Was Canada’s Online News Act compromise a last-minute win or a failure?

    Just before Bill C-18 came into effect, the Canadian government announced a compromise with Google—but not Meta. How did we get here?

    Public support for any kind of novel legislation is always difficult to predict. In the case of the Online News Act, Bill C-18, the starting point was that the governing Liberals and Opposition Conservatives both endorsed a news bargaining code in their 2021 election platforms, just as the major Australian parties…

  • Despite the overblown AI hype, we’re not ready for what comes next

    The initial generative AI hype may have been overblown, but we have a lot of work to do to prepare for what comes next.

    When OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 it sparked a frenzy of hype and panic about the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI)—a form of AI that creates original content based on a user prompt.

  • Employment supports and labour market participation: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    From 2001 to 2003, BC’s new Liberal government instituted significant policy reforms in the delivery and governance of public services. In 2004, Simon Fraser University and the CCPA-BC secured a five-year Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) grant to research how those reforms…

  • Maher Arar

    Fragile Rights: The erosion of our human rights and civil liberties in the name of national security On February 12, 2009, Maher Arar spoke at a benefit for the CCPA’s BC Office. Watch his speech, Fragile Rights: The erosion of our human rights and civil liberties in the name of…