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  • Fast Facts: The Conservative Stealth Strategy to Undermine Medicare

    The Harper government has a two-fold strategy to undermine Medicare. One part of the game plan is to underfund Medicare creating “shortages” over the medium run without making a politically unwise frontal attack against the not-for-profit publicly funded and organized health care system cherished by Canadian citizens. When it expired…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s Energy Outlook

    Current realities and implications for a carbon-constrained future Download summary   2.64 MB | 28 pages Download full study   35.51 MB | 180 pages Canada faces some very difficult choices in maintaining energy security while meeting emissions reduction targets. This study analyses Canada’s energy system, and provides an objective assessment of…

  • Winds of Change

    Saskatchewan’s attitudes on Energy, Environment and Oil Download 1.2 MB16 pages As the second largest oil-producer in the country and home to a government that has vigorously promoted the oil industry and firmly opposed carbon pricing, one might assume that the Saskatchewan public is relatively united in their support for…

  • Comprehensive action on surgical waiting times is good news for BC

    The case for bold, evidence-based action on surgical waiting times—especially for hip and knee replacements that are among the longest in the country—is clear. That is why the BC government’s move to take decisive action to reduce surgical waiting times throughout the province is very good news for all British…

  • Mettre fin à la violence faite aux femmes

    Comprendre les liens qui existent entre la violence directe et la violence structurale Le massacre de l’École Polytechnique à Montréal, il y a 18 ans, n’est malheureusement pas un cas isolé. Tous les 6 décembre, nous honorons la mémoire des quatorze femmes assassinées à l’occasion de la Journée nationale de commémoration et…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Outsourcing Municipal Waste Kicking Workers to the Curb

    Two new garbage and recycling contractors began operating across Winnipeg last October. The 7-year deal replaced Emterra and Progressive with Miller and GFL as the City’s solid waste collectors. While many concerns have been voiced about how the transition will affect city garbage services, little has been said about the…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Subsidized Housing With Supports Needs More Support

    Lessons from WestEnd Commons Stable and affordable housing is a central component in improving people’s quality of life. In light of a severe housing shortage facing low-income renters, it is clear that Manitoba has work to do to ensure that all citizens have access to a warm and secure place…

  • Report reveals regions with highest share of fossil fuel workers by province; “just transition” plan needed

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Communities across Canada need a national strategy to ensure the move to a zero-carbon economy leaves no one behind, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). For the first time, the report uses census data to identify the regions…

  • Conflict, Crisis, and Accountability

    Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement in Canada Download 491.39 KB319 pages Conflict, Crisis, and Accountability focuses on racial profiling in a law enforcement context, particularly as it relates to domestic policing and anti-terrorism initiatives, and issues concerning the reality and impact on peoples of African descent and those ensnared in…

  • Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary Education

    On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link. Points I raised in the address include the following: -Canada’s economy has been growing quite steadily over the past three decades, even when…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2001

    Class size in Alberta–an ongoing debate! The debate over class size in Alberta’s schools has sharpened significantly in the last few months. It has set parents and teachers against government. However, neither research nor polls seem likely to move the provincial government to enforce class sizes in kindergarten through grade…

  • October 2006: We Didn’t Really Say “No” to Missile Defence

    Canadian complicity and participation in BMD continues Contrary to a widely popular feel-good myth, Canada did not reject participation in the U.S.-led “Ballistic Missile Defence” (BMD) weapons program. Unfortunately, BMD is still very much alive and well and thriving in Canada. In fact, Canada has been complicit in BMD for…