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A Critical Assessment of Virtual Mental Health Care for Rural Nova Scotians
Download 1.17 MB8 pages The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating impacts on mental health and healthcare systems across Nova Scotia and the country. While demand for mental health services escalated in response to the pandemic, many in-person services were shut down (MacIvor 2021; government of Nova Scotia 2022b; Pulok et…
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Meet the CCPA–BC’s new Director! Kevin Millsip
Hello, My name is Kevin, and I’m the new/old guy at the BC Office. New, in that I joined this September as Director, and old in that I served on the BC Office steering committee for nearly 10 years, about 8 of those as Chair, and I’ve rented desk space…
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Communities and Research
Download 1.91 MB28 pages At the tail end of the latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant, this magazine shares the work the Manitoba Research Association has been involved in for the past ten plus years in ways it hasn’t been shared before; it’s a new look at important…
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Severe climate events cost BC economy billions more than widely reported estimates, study finds
VANCOUVER — The costs to British Columbia’s economy from last year’s unprecedented heat dome, horrific wildfires, widespread flooding and crippling landslides could be more than $17 billion, making it the most expensive climate disaster in Canadian history. A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives provides a…
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New labour legislation to continue gig worker precarity
Gig work is widely recognized as having all of the characteristics of precarious employment: typically temporary, part-time or casual, low paid, lacking in predictable work hours and job security without health and welfare benefits and protections. Research into precarious gig work in BC has revealed that app-based ride-hail and food…
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November 2006: Rethinking Canada’s Higher Education Policy
Corporatization of universities more harmful than helpful Over the last 30 years, there has been a dramatic shift in the Canadian government’s conception of and approach to higher education. Whereas our universities used to be seen and treated by policy-makers as a public resource for social development, they are now…
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Open for Business?
What’s wrong with corporatizing our universities? Plenty! A serious problem for progressive people nowadays is that neoliberal discourse has become so established, so commonsensical, that it is difficult to publicly question, much less challenge it. How can one argue with claims that public institutions such as our universities should be…
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Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change
Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba is to inform social movements and to provide them the arguments they need to advocate for…
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A Higher Calling: The case for federal investments in women’s work in the care economy
Submission to the House of Commons HUMA committee Download 192.12 KB13 pages The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the many ways in which inequality is baked into our economy and institutions. The crisis in care work predates the pandemic, rooted in the deeply gendered treatment and positioning of care work, intersecting…
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July 2005: A Canadian Response to an American War
War is now driving the economic agenda that we’re fighting The keynote speaker at the CCPA’s 25th anniversary banquet on May 27 was broadcaster and film-maker Avi Lewis. This is an edited version of his speech. In our discussions about deep integration with the United States, the wars in Afghanistan…
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Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective
Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government in BC. The report outlined the nature of the changes this government quickly introduced to the provision of Legal Aid in BC including slashing funding…
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Robust wealth tax could raise $363B over 10 years
Amid a rise in extreme inequality, the idea of an annual tax on the wealth of the super-rich has risen to prominence in recent years in many countries. New analysis shows that a robust wealth tax in Canada—one that goes further than those currently on the table in the federal…
