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Reality Check: Progress on child care in BC, 2012-2020
In the early days of the current BC election campaign child care took centre stage when NDP leader John Horgan recommitted his party to fully implement the $10aDay Plan1 if elected on October 24. Public discussion and commentary followed in the media and from other parties. Questions were raised about the…
October 9, 2020
Public funding for Education in Manitoba
Introduction1 High quality public schooling is an expensive commitment. In Manitoba the operating costs for the 2015-16 school year was $2.24 billion, which translates to an average per pupil operating cost of $12,537 (Manitoba Education and Training, 2017). In May of this year the Minister of Education and Training, Ian…
August 31, 2017
Alternative Federal Budget

Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Premières Nations
Bâtir une vraie souveraineté canadienne
Ce que le gouvernement canadien devrait faire en matière des Premières Nations. Une véritable indépendance exige un nouveau modèle économique.
October 28, 2025
Infrastructure costs an excuse to ban apartments on residential land, but are actually cheaper for high-density housing, new research shows
VANCOUVER — In the midst of a housing crisis, infrastructure costs are used increasingly as an excuse for restrictive zoning policies in BC, which effectively ban apartments on most residential land and reserve it exclusively for low-density options like detached houses, new research by Alex Hemingway and Danny Oleksiuk shows.
January 15, 2025
The case for expanding democratic employee ownership in Canada
Workers lack democratic rights in the corporations and institutions that govern their work lives. As we find ourselves in an era of high inequality the question of ‘why shouldn’t working people be the owners and beneficiaries of the fruits of their labour?’ becomes timely and necessary. Read this research report…
April 29, 2024
Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
On October 24, CCPA senior economist David Macdonald presented to the Standing Committee on Finance for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2023 Budget
On October 24, CCPA senior economist David Macdonald presented to the Standing Committee on Finance for the Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2023 Budget
October 25, 2022
Editorial: Endings and Beginnings
This edition of the CCPA Monitor marks the end of an era. With this, his last issue, Ed Finn passes the torch to a new generation. Twenty years ago, almost to the day, we asked Ed to take on the challenge of creating a regular publication to put in the…
April 1, 2014
Gender-based violence’s disproportionate impact on 2SLGBTQ+ communities
We’re failing 2SLGBTQIA+ communities amidst rising gender-based violence because policy-makers still don’t understand intersectionality.
We’re failing 2SLGBTQIA+ communities amidst rising gender-based violence because policy-makers still don’t understand intersectionality.
September 8, 2022
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December 5, 2024
EDITORIAL: Supreme Relief
In the lead-up to Canada Day, the Association for Canadian Studies asked 1,509 people, “What keeps Canada united?” It’s a loaded question for sure. (How united is it? Whom does it unite?) And there were only 11 options to choose from. Nonetheless, the top responses are interesting to consider as…
July 1, 2014
Education Project

The Innovation Gap and the Problem with Research Funding in Canada
While concerns about Canada’s innovation gap have become cliché, too often these observations ignore the elephant in the room: funding for Canadian Researchers is based on a broken funding system. We hope to re-ignite a longstanding conversation in Canada about how to better use limited research dollars to support more…
December 15, 2011
Angela Y. Davis – a primer
On Saturday, May 6, 2017, Dr. Angela Y. Davis will deliver a talk in Winnipeg at Knox United Church titled Race, Resistance, and Revolution: Freedom is a Constant Struggle. She will be hosted by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba office, in partnership with Black Space Winnipeg and Queer…
May 4, 2017