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  • A win for BC workers: single-step union certification

    The BC government recently introduced legislation that allows a majority of workers in a workplace to organize a union a little more easily, making it harder for employers to intimidate and interfere in organizing drives. That’s good news both for working people and for the quality of our democracy. Single-step…

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    Time to end information hide-and-seek games: Public deserves more prompt government disclosure of basic data

    No one should be told to file a Freedom of Information request simply to learn who works for them. Government must give members of the public access to up-to-date and useful information on who is there to serve them and quit obfuscating and abusing access to information laws, Ben Parfitt…

  • Fast Facts: Jim Silver has built a remarkable career as an academic, author, and activist.

    Jim’s academic studies started at the University of Winnipeg, where he graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science in 1975. He went on to complete a Masters in Political Science at Carleton University in 1976, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sussex in 1981.…

  • BC government charging major users very little for water and only loosely tracking industrial water use, research shows

    VANCOUVER—Major companies including mining juggernaut Teck Resources, the world’s largest aluminum maker Rio Tinto Alcan and natural gas processor WestCoast Energy Inc. pay shockingly little for water they take from British Columbia’s lakes, rivers and streams. Of greater concern, most industrial water users rarely, if ever, are required to meter…

  • Are There Labour And Skills Shortages In Canada?

    Further to my earlier post on this topic, whether or not we are or will soon be experiencing labour and skills shortages is a question of critical importance to the development of sound public policy. Next week, we will get some new Statistics Canada data on job vacancies which will help support…

  • 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

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Research for Communities: Green New Deal Needed in Canada Too

    First it was 44 million, then 66 million and now 78 million tonnes of C02: every year Environment Canada increases the amount by which Canada is projected to miss its Paris Agreement target [i]. “Transitions to a cleaner future are hard,” said Environment Minister Catherine McKenna in a press conference…

  • Out-of-control rents

    Rental wages in Canada, 2023

    CMHC, “Rental Market Survey Data Tables,” 2023. For a notable exception, see John Rapley, “Canada’s approach to housing is bad for the economy,” The Globe and Mail, July 14, 2023. David Macdonald, “Unaccommodating: Rental Housing Wage in Canada” (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2018), policyalternatives.ca/unaccommodating. David Macdonald and Ricardo…