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  • Skewed TD Bank assessment of $15 minimum wage relies on outdated analysis

    Another week, another skewed economic assessment of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage.This time, it’s TD Bank making dire predictions about job loss. But modern minimum wage research says something very different, suggesting that TD’s claims are overblown. Their gloomy prognosis discounts the findings of much recent…

  • Why we need sectoral bargaining

    Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now

    Too many BC workers lack meaningful access to the benefits of collective bargaining and the failure of our labour laws to keep up with the evolving nature of work is a key culprit.

  • Newcomers funding banner

    Budget fails to fund enough supports for newcomers to BC

    New immigrants, temporary foreign workers and international students are bearing the brunt of the blame for the housing crisis and strain on public services where the provincial budget is failing to keep up with demand.

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Academic Freedom

    Ivory tower privilege or public interest? The University of Manitoba narrowly averted its third faculty strike in eighteen years in late October, a strike that would have disrupted the lives of 29,000 students and almost 9,000 staff members. What brought the professors so reluctantly to this last-ditch effort to get…

  • Fast Facts: The nexus of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba – A Brief History

    We’re proud that over 1,500 people subscribe to this free fast facts service. The best way to ensure progressive research continues to be published in Manitoba is by supporting the CCPA-MB. Help us continue to do community-based research and commentary on issues of social justice and environmental sustainability. To find…

  • Fast Facts: Community, Research and Social Change

    The 10th Annual State of the Inner City Report The State of the Inner City Report is an annual research collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba and community organizations based in the inner city of Winnipeg. This year marks its tenth year anniversary. Since the beginning, the…

  • Ottawa, Canada; The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa

    Federal wealth tax would raise over $30 billion in first year: economist

    VANCOUVER —A federal wealth tax could provide ongoing revenue for much-needed investments in public programs and help rein in extreme economic inequality, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office’s latest modelling for such a tax shows. Senior economist Alex Hemingway modelled revenues for a Canadian wealth tax applying to…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Research for Communities: Justice Starts Here

    A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba In the report Justice Starts Here: A one-stop shop approach for achieving greater justice in Manitoba, authors Allison Fenske and Beverly Froese from the Public Interest Law Centre spoke with community groups who provide programming, opportunities, and services to people…

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    Remembering Murray Dobbin—activist, intellectual, mentor, friend

    Neoliberal myth-buster. Far right exposer. Movement philosopher. Activist mentor. Murray Dobbin was all of these. On Sept. 8, our good friend and comrade Murray died at age 76. Murray was not ready to leave, but after two-and-a-half years the inexorable brutality of cancer led him to choose medical assistance in…

  • Two workers painting an exterior wall of a building, hanging with harnesses.

    New survey data shines light on the extent and impacts of precarious employment in BC

    The rise of the “gig economy” and on-demand work through online platforms like Uber and Skip the Dishes has ignited public debate about precarious work and what makes a “good job.”  We all know that precarious work existed long before Uber and is not limited to the gig economy. But…

  • Searching the Past for Policy Alternatives

    Ways to a better future to be learned from “commons” past When Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work restoring the credibility of the self-governing commons, she boosted the revival of this alternative to state or market control. Its heritage is huge and hugely important, especially for…

  • The Harper Government’s War on Science

    Many scientific programs terminated, many scientists fired  Canada’s Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, is investigating the muzzling of federal scientists, but far more troubling is the actual elimination of scientific programs and the firing of scientists. On that front, Canada’s federal environmental and oceans science and scientists have taken a terrible…