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  • Canada’s smart tech future: Open cities or opaque surveillance?

    New research shows that police forces across Canada are building extensive digital surveillance hubs without any public engagement. Smart city projects use very similar technologies with the same dangers, yet here residents and municipalities are increasingly implementing Open Smart City principles to avoid potential harms and strengthen public oversight. The police should not be exempt from democratic accountability and the same principles can be applied to them to rebuild it

    New research shows that police forces across Canada are building extensive digital surveillance hubs without any public engagement. Smart city projects use very similar technologies with the same dangers, yet here residents and municipalities are increasingly implementing Open Smart City principles to avoid potential harms and strengthen public oversight. The…

  • Never free, never cleared

    Canada’s ongoing terror obsession Two Canadian judicial decisions released in late May remind us that national security is incompatible with democracy: the former almost always trumps the latter. When doubts are raised about the fragility of democratic rights, as they were in the cases of Ottawa residents Mohamed Harkat and…

  • Homeless person's sleeping bags and bedding under a bench

    CCPA-NS Annual Report 2022

    Download 1.03 MB 13 pages In 2022 the NS Office published on a range of important policy issues including reimagining the role of Immigration retention in continuing care, the experience of homelessness in the Halifax Regional Municipality and the Cape Breton Municipality during 2020, the impact of a low-wage economy…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Temporary Foreign Workers: How federal settlement policies overlook some newcomers

    Manitoba has embarked on aggressive immigration strategies to attract newcomers to settle in a variety of communities in the province with the purpose of meeting local labour force demands. In response to these trends, it is necessary to have appropriate and effective support systems to assist in the long-term settlement…

  • The Big Chill

    Basic freedoms of speech and advocacy are now under siege There are few values at the heart of any vibrant democratic society more important than the right and the ability to speak out freely, to disagree, and to advocate for differing points of view. These rights lie at the heart…

  • Reinventing the forestry industry: Made-in-Canada masks and much more

    Canada should seize the moment created by COVID-19 to become self-sufficient in making masks and other essential medical items, and look to new and emerging “bioproducts” to meet the need, not oil-based synthetics, say scientists, who have studied the untapped potential of the country’s forests. They are joined in that…

  • Reflections on the Tamil migrants from the child of “queue-jumping” asylum seekers

    If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. They came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the US in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me. My…

  • Legislated Paid Sick Leave – A Historic Moment for Worker Rights

    The BC government will implement the right for all employees to have a minimum number of employer-paid sick days on January 1, 2022. BC will become just the third province in Canada to do so—and has an opportunity to make history by bringing in the strongest, most well-designed program in the country. Last…

  • Increasing permanent residency for migrants strengthens labour power

    Working conditions are about power—and permanent status allows workers to exert it.

    Working conditions are about power—and permanent status allows workers to exert it.

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Trans-Pacific Partnership expands migrant worker regime: study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—As parliamentary consultations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) begin, a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) raises questions about the deal’s consequences for Canadian immigration policy and the Canadian labour market. “The TPP gives employers a new pathway to hire and…

  • The Monitor, Sept/Oct 2019

    Election 2019: Thinking Bigger, Demanding Better Download 6.52 MB The pollster Nik Nanos claimed in June that climate change would be “one of the defining battle grounds” this election. “More important than jobs, more important than health care, more important than immigration.” In July, Abacus Data put climate change in…

  • 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…