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  • Government should consider options for Sea King replacement, report urges

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A major, deep-reaching report about the maritime helicopter procurement has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The worst procurement in the history of Canada”: Solving the maritime helicopter crisis was written by University of…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Reduced access to home support leaving frail seniors isolated

    Health system missing key preventive means to postpone and avoid more costly care READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–Reduced access to publicly-funded home support means frail seniors and people with disabilities are being left without the basic supports needed to monitor their health and postpone, or even avoid, the need…

  • June 2006: Serving As the U.S. Military’s Spy in the Sky

    Canada taking a key role in the militarization of space Few Canadians realize that their taxes have long been used to make this country a major force in the militarization of space. Although our government loudly proclaims its opposition to the weaponization of space, it has quietly mentored the research…

  • New CCPA study calls for increase in the minimum wage

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT As the last labour day of the millennium approaches, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling for a substantial increase in the minimum wage. In a major new study released today, the Centre dispels numerous myths about minimum wages, and argues that…

  • An Evaluation of Parental Perspectives on Children’s Education in Skownan First Nations

    Download 993.35 KB There is a substantive body of research that demonstrates the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment (Juarez, 2011; Huang, 2012). However, much of this research is based on mainstream populations, and there is limited knowledge of how Indigenous parents perceive their role in children’s educational outcomes. The purpose…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Reductions in employment standards and enforcement amount to wilful neglect of province’s most vulnerable workers, says labour economist

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver) Numbers obtained from the BC Ministry of Labour show that sweeping changes to the employment standards system have dramatically undermined the province’s ability to enforce minimum protections for workers. David Fairey, a labour economist, obtained the information while doing research for a study released…

  • September 2005: The Myth of Canada’s Anti-BMD Decision

    Canada’s “no” to U.S. missile defense was really a hearty “yes” It was just over a year ago, on August 5, 2004, in the epicentre of Canada’s sacrosanct summer holidays, that the Canadian government ever-so-quietly initiated a major change to the NORAD agreement to add “missile defense” functions to the…

  • Let’s make day care a great place to learn

    CANADIANS ARE increasingly aware of how important the early years are to the development of children. We know that children’s future educational and career opportunities are influenced by their experiences as young children at home and in the care of others. Unfortunately, I think many of us still view child…

  • Look at the other side of the petrodollar coin

    Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently spoke publicly about the problems Canada’s oil-powered currency was causing for his province’s manufacturing industry. But his words were drowned out by pious outrage from petroleum advocates (led by Alberta’s politicking Premier Alison Redford). How dare he suggest that the bitumen boom could be anything…

  • May 2005: Embracing Canadian Values

    Being “pro-Canadian” means much more than being “anti-American” George W. Bush and his gang of neo-cons have inadvertently prompted Canadians to more closely examine their own very different take on the world. And they like what they see. There are those, of course, who dismiss this phenomenon either as “mindless”…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Is the province equipped to tackle the pine beetle’s long-term impact?

    As many British Columbians know, the province is witnessing one of its biggest logging booms in decades. More trees are falling than ever in the Interior, and will for years to come. But today’s boom presages a dark future wherein resource-dependent communities and the provincial treasury both will be hit…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Long-term care and home health services in BC on steady decline

    Province-wide audit provides clear picture of cuts since 2001, documents lost beds READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Access to long-term care and home health services for BC seniors has decreased significantly over the past three years, in spite of rising pressures from an aging population and cuts to the…