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  • The Taxpayers’ Federation is wrong about SSHRC

    Did you hear about the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation’s latest research stunt? Just before Canada Day – a time when high school graduates are touring university campuses around the country – the CTF slapped a graduation cap and gown on their ubiquitous pig mascot and held a press conference denouncing ‘wacky’ student research…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Subsidized Housing With Supports Needs More Support

    Lessons from WestEnd Commons Stable and affordable housing is a central component in improving people’s quality of life. In light of a severe housing shortage facing low-income renters, it is clear that Manitoba has work to do to ensure that all citizens have access to a warm and secure place…

  • The power of ideas and research: A note from CCPA-BC’s incoming Director

    I first encountered the CCPA when I was a university student trying to make sense of the world and my place in it. I’d moved out to Vancouver at 19 with a longing to explore this beautiful coast, a passionate if somewhat disorganized commitment to social justice, my cat, and…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The delusion of austerity: Manitoba’s public service

    Previously published in the Brandon Sun, Thursday September 21, 2023 The public service in Manitoba matters to our collective well-being. While frontline public servants are easily identifiable, think of firefighters as just one example, an overlooked group of public servants are those ‘behind the scenes’ who are suffering the effects…

  • Let’s not keep BC riders waiting. It’s time to invest in the transit British Columbians deserve.

    Connecting BC: A 10-year vision for public transit throughout BC

    Let’s not keep BC riders waiting. It’s time to invest in the transit British Columbians deserve.

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Economic benefits from coal mines overstated while vulnerable species rarely protected, new research shows

    VANCOUVER—The promised economic benefits from coal mines in northeastern British Columbia (BC) are wildly overstated, while mining company pledges to protect vulnerable wildlife species are rarely met, a team of researchers concludes in a new report that has implications for natural resource management across Canada.

  • From battleground to common ground

    It’s time we stop treating vulnerable kids as pawns in a culture war.

    In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still symbolic of the actualization that we are more than just individual agents or even the sum of our parts; that differences needn’t divide; that a…

  • How one company’s “value-added” plans are opening the door to more log exports and fewer forest industry jobs

    Second of Two Parts For many years, TimberWest has exported more raw logs from British Columbia than all of its competitors save one. And a new move afoot by the company has both forest industry workers and environmental activists convinced that the company is laying the groundwork for even more…

  • Don’t force charities and non-profits into crisis before wage subsidy kicks in

    UPDATE—April 8, 2020: Today a letter was sent to key government officials requesting that the new Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) program be made available to all charities and community non-profits, without the requirement to experience a revenue loss before becoming eligible. All the organizations which added their name at…

  • Caps and compromises collide at COP28

    Shift Storm newsletter—December 2023 edition

    The following is a re-print of the December 2023 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and climate change. Click here to subscribe to Shift Storm and get the latest updates straight to your inbox.

  • Image: The 20-million-gallon Lily Dam, one of the two unlicensed dams for which Progress Energy received retroactive exemption from environmental review. Photo by Ben Parfitt.

    Dangerous precedent: Petronas subsidiary gets free pass after building unlicensed fracking dams

    In a decision without precedent in its 25 years of existence, British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has told Progress Energy that two massive unauthorized dams that it built will not have to undergo environmental assessments. The decision comes after the company made an audacious request to the EAO to…

  • UNSPUN: Communities leading the way need provincial support

    The province has invested widely in community development and “place-based” approaches to renewal and poverty reduction, with many positive results. Place-based approaches such as these are now being adopted in communities across the country as research shows that residents overwhelmed by poverty need complementary supports and resources close to home.…