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Alternative federal budget 2026: Building true Canadian sovereignty
What true Canadian sovereignty and independence might look like when the public good is at the heart of budgetary planning
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Budget fédéral alternatif 2026 : Bâtir une vraie souveraineté canadienne
Les grandes lignes d’une souveraineté et d’une indépendance canadiennes véritables quand l’intérêt public est au cœur de la planification budgétaire
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Quebec: Room for improvement in economic outcomes for immigrants
The BBC once told the story of Wang Lai Ming, who decided to change his name to Terence King when he emigrated to New Zealand so it would be easier for him to find a job. It was a sad reminder that, in many countries, immigrants have trouble entering the…
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Reaction to the Tamil boat: curious comparisons
If the 492 Tamil asylum-seekers who recently arrived by boat on BC’s shores are “queue-jumpers”, then I guess my parents were too. See, they came as Vietnam War draft dodgers from the US in 1967. Like a couple of the Tamil women just arrived, my mom was pregnant with me.…
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Martine August
Martine is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on the political economy of housing and the pursuit of urban social justice, exploring themes related to gentrification, displacement, community organizing, public housing redevelopment, and the politics of social mix. Her current…
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Election 2019: How to disarm anti-immigration rhetoric
Photo: William Chen For centuries, the political right has opportunistically blamed immigrants for everything from economic slowdowns to lousy weather. The ferocity of these baseless attacks in the 20th century produced tragic results. Yet we are letting it happen again—in the United States, Brazil, Australia, different parts of Europe, and here…
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Election 2019: How to disarm anti-immigration rhetoric
For centuries, the political right has opportunistically blamed immigrants for everything from economic slowdowns to lousy weather. The ferocity of these baseless attacks in the 20th century produced tragic results. Yet we are letting it happen again—in the United States, Brazil, Australia, different parts of Europe, and here in Canada.
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Manitoba by the Numbers: Population
The first in a series Population Indicators 1,303,900 Manitoba’s population estimated by Statistics Canada as of January 1, 2016.[1] 16,200 The amount the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics estimates Statistics Canada undercounted Manitoba’s population number above. This impacts per capita transfers from the federal government to Manitoba. 1.71% Manitoba’s population growth…
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Harper’s Record on Immigration – Lawyers Weigh In
The following is cut and pasted from an email that is in circulation to lawyers, practitioners and academics regarding the Harper record on immigration. It does not address the rapid growth in the issuing of temporary foreign worker permits, particularly since the recession began. Harper’s record on that issue is…
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Fast Facts: Our City’s Undocumented
A Case for Access Without Fear Reports about refugees walking across the Canada-US border beginning in the spring of 2017 renewed concerns about immigration policy and undocumented migrants in Winnipeg. In fact, the vast majority of migrants to Canada enter legally, through official ports of entry, and with documentation that…
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Reducing the space for democracy – one speaker from the CCPA’s 30th anniversary
Last week I was lucky enough to join 250 people in Ottawa for a daylong conference to honour the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Nine different speakers and two intelligent moderators focused the audience on the democratic and economic challenges we face as a Canadians and…
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Response to Chief Smyth’s citation of CCPA MB published research
On March 23th, 2023 Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth posted on the Winnipeg Police Service substack a statement in response to Fadi Ennab’s research on police in schools. Fadi Ennab is a Vanier Scholar and a PhD student, university instructor, and highly-respected community researcher. Ennab has done two reports on…
