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  • Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in Canada

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities, according to a new background report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Evidence collected over more than a decade suggests there are a…

  • Manitoba Health Coalition on Budget 2022

    Premier Heather Stefanson began her tenure with a promise to listen to Manitobans. Her predecessor, Brian Pallister, had become identified with the chaos in Manitoba’s healthcare system and its often contradictory, and at times confrontational, pandemic messaging and policy. As premier, Pallister led these initiatives from the front. When he…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Brought to the Brink by Recklessness… First thoughts on COVID-19

    This piece is dedicated to Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020). Mark was a scholar of classics, teacher, life-long social justice advocate and friend to CCPA Mb. Referring to the role of plagues in ancient Greece, Joel Christensen writes: “Plague stories provide settings where fate pushes human…

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    Bailout for people and communities, not oil and gas industry

    Canada is in an economic tailspin due to the COVID-19 pandemic, echoing the worst months of the Great Depression. Yet while millions of Canadians need support to pay for basic necessities, a powerful group of oil company CEOs and lobbyists has insisted on a multi-billion dollar handout from the federal…

  • Western Canada needs real climate action, not disingenuous arguments

    In Western Canada’s slow lurch towards sane climate and energy policy, two prominent arguments have been advanced for the continuation of business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry in BC and Alberta. Both are interesting because they invoke the need for climate action to justify the further growth of fossil fuel…

  • Groups urge government to immediately disclose how much subsidies are propping up Drax Group, BC’s largest wood pellet producer

    VANCOUVER — The BC government must immediately disclose how many logs from publicly owned forests are turned directly into wood pellets at mills owned by the  Drax Group, BC’s biggest wood pellet maker, says a forest industry union, conservation and public policy organizations. The groups are also calling on the province…

  • Occupy Canada Resources from the CCPA Vault

    With increased attention on the 99% emerging from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it’s time to open the CCPA vault on the issue. www.growinggap.ca is our dedicated website on income inequality, and it’s a treasure trove of facts and arguments documenting worsening income inequality in Canada and offering solutions to help…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Managed wind-down of BC’s fossil fuel industries good for climate, jobs and communities, new report

    VANCOUVER — If BC is to meet its emissions targets and not perpetuate the climate crisis, it must phase out its fossil fuel industries by mid-century, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Winding Down BC’s Fossil Fuel Industries: Planning for Climate Justice in a…

  • Managed wind-down of BC’s fossil fuel industries: A just transition to a green economy

    Imagine it’s 2025 and because of the escalating climate crisis, governments in Asia have declared ambitious new climate action plans and an aggressive transition off natural gas. BC’s fossil fuel exports would soon dry up, workers would be laid off and local communities would lose public- and private-sector jobs. This…

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    Coastal GasLink connects bad economics with terrible climate policy while trampling on Indigenous rights

    Protests around BC and the rest of the country have put Indigenous issues front and centre in discussions of Canadian politics and energy policy. Approved by the BC government, TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink pipeline would run through Wet’suwet’en territory and the company argues it is in the broader “public interest” because…

  • Media get it wrong on Bank of Canada minimum wage study

    Over a million workers in Ontario just got a big raise thanks to tireless, bottom-up organizing, but to hear the media tell it, this is a bad news story. The same, tired headlines are back. Wednesday, the CBC ran a story titled, “Minimum wage hikes could cost Canada’s economy 60,000…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Without Foundation

    How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health care system. The sector’s significance can be traced to the 1991 Seaton Commission, which proposed a “closer to home” theme for health care restructuring. The…