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  • Time to mobilize like we mean it

    Lessons from the Second World War for the climate emergency Even before the arrival of COVID-19, the history of the Second World War was making a remarkable comeback. Our movie theatres (remember those?), Netflix offerings and bookstore shelves were full of modern reboots of our mid-century wartime experience. Then the…

  • Your CCPA

    Get to know Christine Saulnier This interview with Christine was originally published in the November/December 2020 issue of the Monitor. Office: Halifax, Nova Scotia Position: Director Years with the CCPA: 13 Office setup: I am the sole staff person in the Atlantic Region. Our primary mandate is to focus on progressive policies for Nova…

  • How Harper can avoid turning the Budget Implementation Bill into a Duffy Budget Bill

    On November 25th, I made the following submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance regarding Bill C-4, Economic Action Plan 2013 Act No. 2, on behalf of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.   1.     Introduction and Context Thank you for the invitation to appear before the Committee,…

  • Ten considerations for the next Alberta budget

    On November 16, I participated in a workshop organized by the Alberta Alternative Budget Working Group. Held at the University of Alberta’s main campus, speakers discussed macroeconomic, health care and social policy considerations for the next Alberta budget. Here are 10 things to know: 1) Alberta’s still recovering from a…

  • September 2007: Lessons From the Depression

    Political leadership needed to forge environmental New Deal In his otherwise excellent report, The Economics of Climate Change, Britain’s Sir Nicolas Stern states that climate change “is the greatest and widest ranging market failure ever seen.” Close, but no cigar. At least, not yet. The science and the seriousness of…

  • Research for Communities

    The North Point Douglas Neighbourhood’s Community Strengths Download 458.35 KB4 pages

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Keeping Winnipeg Affordable

    Exploring the potential for Inclusionary Housing in a slow-growth city In Winnipeg there is a need for more affordable housing, as 21 percent of households (64,065 households) are living in unaffordable housing – according to CMHC’s definition of spending more than 30 percent of income on shelter.  Additionally, there are…

  • BC Hydro

    Losing sight at Site C

    Court documents and FOI materials show BC Hydro knew shale would move at troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion BC Hydro approved the pouring of massive amounts of concrete to build a buttress at its problem-plagued Site C dam project months before a critical drainage tunnel was…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Workplace Rights for Recent Immigrants

    Boom times in BC are reflected in low unemployment rates and robust economic growth. But missing from that picture is the fact that some people are having a harder time earning a decent living than others. Among those people are recent immigrants. Statistics Canada reports that, in 2006, very recent…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil sands ‘Big Five’ making billions despite oil price crash and pipeline delays, new report shows

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the oil sands sector have fared during the recent boom-bust commodity cycle. “Despite…

  • Photo: BC Hydro

    Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?

    BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems.  In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…

  • Can Democracy save Victoria and Favour?

    Today marks the National Day of Action for Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, the two University of Regina students that have spent the past 14 months in sanctuary to avoid deportation. Both students made the honest mistake of working at a local Wal-Mart for two weeks, thereby violating the terms of their student…