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  • New Economy Initiative (MB)

    Doing Community Economic Development

    Challenging traditional notions of development, these essays critically examine bottom-up, community economic development strategies in a wide variety of contexts: as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings; shaped and driven by women and by Aboriginal people; aimed at employment creation for the most marginalized. Most…

  • Growing Gap

    The rich are getting richer – and we’re all helping

    New data from Statistics Canada gives us a glimpse at the extensive income gains the richest of Canadians have been experiencing over the past two decades. Finance Minister Flaherty reveals a massive budget surplus, and promises more tax cuts. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives research fellow and economist Hugh Mackenzie…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Is another Charter challenge on BC labour rights waiting in the wings?

    While the BC government mulls over the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision that Bill 29 is unconstitutional (because it infringes on health care workers’ right to collective bargaining), it should also consider the constitutionality of another piece of labour legislation passed in 2002. Although not yet challenged before the courts,…

  • Annotated Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy

    BC recently signed on to a new Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, which includes California, Oregon and Washington states. On the surface it seems like the province is recommitting to climate policy, but don’t believe the hype: it was just a few years ago that BC was…

  • Education Project

    Erika Shaker: Scapegoating youth in the war on progress

    In July 2013, Erika Shaker, Director of CCPA’s Education Project, was invited to deliver a lecture at the 2013 Summer Institute—an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary workshop that invites undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral fellows or doctoral recipients with an interest in youth-related research to work collaboratively with major researchers and public intellectuals to generate new…

  • Former PBO Kevin Page in Regina

    On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presented a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page reflects on his tenure as the first PBO in Canada and the identifies the obstacles and challenges that…

  • Addressing rural development issues in Nova Scotia

    Perhaps the most important thing that we’ve learned after years of grappling with the challenges of economic development is that there are no easy solutions. We are now enjoying the lowest rate of unemployment in 30 years, yet manufacturing plants are closing and there is a steady flow of workers…

  • March 2007: A Special CCPA Report on Work, Wealth, and the Economy

    Lots of insecure jobs created in 2006, but more good jobs lost Pundits have acclaimed 2006 as a banner year for the Canadian labour market, highlighted by an unemployment rate finishing the year at 6.3%, the lowest official average annual unemployment rate in more than 30 years. Overall, the economy…

  • Canada’s submarine fleet never worked: it’s time to stop ignoring the problem

    Most Canadians know the sad story of Canada’s second-hand submarines. Purchased from Britain in 1998 for a suspiciously low price, the four vessels have spent most of the last fifteen years being refitted and repaired. What most Canadians do not know is that the “Victoria-class” submarines are now entering the…

  • Federal Budget 2013: Stubbornness and hidden secrets

    Reactions to the federal budget presented in March differed in Québec in comparison with the rest of the provinces. In this text we will first review the budget as whole before zooming into measures which caused a big uproar in Québec. In its latest budget, the government brought to the…

  • Fiscal Debate in Québec: Myth busting and flak

    Some myths are just so hard to debunk. For instance, people in Québec generally assume that they are the most taxed in North America. IRIS tackled the well-rehearsed allegation in a recently published socio-economic notice. The reply resounded of what Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky have presented in Manufacturing Consent as flak.…

  • Why gender equality will make you rich and popular

    Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in…