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  • Harper’s prisons: Québec’s point of view

    On this past 5 December, we learnt on the front page of the daily Devoir that college-level instruction provided to inmates was now in jeopardy because of the federal cuts in Flaherty’s last budget. At Collège Marie-Victorin in Montréal, these cuts could bring an end to forty years of inmate instruction for reintegration…

  • CCPA’s Seth Klein to step down as BC Director

    (Vancouver) After nearly 22 years of service with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the country’s foremost social justice research institute, Seth Klein has decided he will step down as BC Director at the end of the year. Seth was hired to open the CCPA’s BC office in the fall…

  • Fast Facts: Austerity Agendas, COVID and Universities

    An inside view As I write this, the University of Manitoba and all other post-secondary institutions are desperately working to meet the Pallister governments edicts, issued last week, to make plans to reduce their annual budgeted salaries by 10 per cent and to realize those savings within four months.  They…

  • Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in Canada

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities, according to a new background report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Evidence collected over more than a decade suggests there are a…

  • Manitoba Health Coalition on Budget 2022

    Premier Heather Stefanson began her tenure with a promise to listen to Manitobans. Her predecessor, Brian Pallister, had become identified with the chaos in Manitoba’s healthcare system and its often contradictory, and at times confrontational, pandemic messaging and policy. As premier, Pallister led these initiatives from the front. When he…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19

    This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate and friend to CCPA Mb. Referring to the role of plagues in ancient Greece, Joel Christensen writes: “Plague stories provide settings where fate pushes human…

  • Manitoba’s NDP: time to return to its social democratic roots

    In June, 1969, Manitoba elected Canada’s first NDP government and Manitoba’s first social democratic government. The NDP has since become the dominant political party in Manitoba, winning 8 of the last 12 elections and governing for almost two years in every three since June, 1969. The NDP’s latest run as…

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    Bailout for people and communities, not oil and gas industry

    Canada is in an economic tailspin due to the COVID-19 pandemic, echoing the worst months of the Great Depression. Yet while millions of Canadians need support to pay for basic necessities, a powerful group of oil company CEOs and lobbyists has insisted on a multi-billion dollar handout from the federal…

  • Silencing the outriders, silencing democracy

    Since taking power federally in 2006, the Conservative government has undertaken a continuous attack on civil society organizations.  One of the government’s first actions was to cut support for women’s organizations that lobbied or did research on the status of women.  Environmental organizations have been accused of acting in the…

  • Western Canada needs real climate action, not disingenuous arguments

    In Western Canada’s slow lurch towards sane climate and energy policy, two prominent arguments have been advanced for the continuation of business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry in BC and Alberta. Both are interesting because they invoke the need for climate action to justify the further growth of fossil fuel…

  • Groups urge government to immediately disclose how much subsidies are propping up Drax Group, BC’s largest wood pellet producer

    VANCOUVER — The BC government must immediately disclose how many logs from publicly owned forests are turned directly into wood pellets at mills owned by the  Drax Group, BC’s biggest wood pellet maker, says a forest industry union, conservation and public policy organizations. The groups are also calling on the province…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Managed wind-down of BC’s fossil fuel industries good for climate, jobs and communities, new report

    VANCOUVER — If BC is to meet its emissions targets and not perpetuate the climate crisis, it must phase out its fossil fuel industries by mid-century, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Winding Down BC’s Fossil Fuel Industries: Planning for Climate Justice in a…