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  • Refugee Claimants Require Temporary and Permanent Supports in Manitoba

    We in Manitoba find ourselves in need of a serious discussion about how to coordinate services, including lodging, for the refugee claimants who are continuing to cross the Canada-US border at Emerson, Manitoba.  This involves puzzling out the place of supports and services in the broader refugee system as well…

  • Nearly $400 million in public funds flowed to for-profit surgical and diagnostic clinics in BC over the last six years, new research reveals

    Surgical centres engaged in unlawful extra-billing among those who benefited from government outsourcing READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Health authority contracts with for-profit surgical and diagnostic imaging clinics topped $393 million between 2015/16 and 2020/21 – with total annual payments increasing by 57 per cent over that period. That’s…

  • Equal rights for migrant care workers

    The case for immigration policy transformation Download 398.63 KB 21 pages Since the mid-1950s, the Canadian government has increasingly relied on precarious and/or temporary migrant workers to meet a growing demand for care work. Restrictive immigration policies and programs that promise a pathway to permanent residency but place limitations on…

  • Calculating a Living Wage for Perth and Huron Counties

    Download 816.2 KB 34 pages The Social Research Planning Council, a Divison of United Way Perth-Huron, collaborated with the CCPA-ON to produce this report detailing the living wage calculations for the Perth-Huron region of Ontario. This report builds on the previous living wage work published by the CCPA and the…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Building Stronger Boards

    A Study on the Diversity of Settlement Organizations in Winnipeg Download 1.78 MB 68 pages Boards of directors are ubiquitous in Winnipeg’s social service sector, including in newcomer and refugee settlement organizations. Existing research shows that representative boards are more connected with community issues, better adapt to challenges, and are…

  • Education Project

    The Innovation Gap and the Problem with Research Funding in Canada

    While concerns about Canada’s innovation gap have become cliché, too often these observations ignore the elephant in the room: funding for Canadian Researchers is based on a broken funding system. We hope to re-ignite a longstanding conversation in Canada about how to better use limited research dollars to support more…

  • Open letter on regulating platform work from BC experts in labour law, policy and economics

    The following is an open letter released today led by the CCPA–BC and the Centre for Future Work. It is signed by 61 leading experts in labour law, policy and economics (signatories listed below). The letter urges the BC government to implement strong measures to ensure that ride-share and food…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    The Unique Social Housing needs of Resettling Refugees

    War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations assist resettling refugees in finding and maintaining housing, which…

  • AFB 2024: Gender Equality

    Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on gender equality

    Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on gender equality

  • Ben Parfitt taking notes outside a new pellet-burning thermal electricity plant in Japan, north of the city of Sendai. Photo: Conservation North.

    Thanks for a great ride

    Twenty years ago, an insect attack of biblical proportions in British Columbia’s forests became a hot-button topic.  Thanks to unusually warm winters (guess why), mountain pine beetles exploded in number in the province’s interior forests killing millions upon millions of lodgepole pine trees.  The provincial government responded by approving huge…

  • The importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms: What the research tells us

    Community health centres (CHCs) have been an effective but under-valued model for delivering primary health care1 for decades in Canada and the US. One of the unique features of the model is its strong focus on the social determinants of health and preventing acute illness among groups who are more likely to experience poor health and…

  • Raising the bar: our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Raising the bar: Our recommendations for equitable gig work in BC

    Platform companies like Uber, Lyft and Skip the Dishes derive profits at the expense of taxpayers’ contributions and workers’ health and safety. The BC government has a unique opportunity to set high standards for sustainable, responsible platform work and we are pleased to support the government’s deliberations on this issue.…