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  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Manitoba Minimum Wage workers in poverty, face precarious work – new report

    A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office finds Manitoba’s $11.65 hourly minimum wage is insufficient to bring all household types out of poverty, even when government transfers and subsidy programs are included. One of the purposes of minimum wage laws is to…

  • March 2004: Tackling Our Worst Drug Addiction

    Big Pharma’s hold on our health care system must be broken Parliament’s Standing Committee on Health has identified many important and disturbing issues related to prescription drugs in Canada, including the rising costs, the review and control of prices, the approval of new drugs, the monitoring of adverse effects and…

  • Daniel Cerdas Sandí

    Daniel Cerdas (he/him) is a political scientist with a Master’s in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Social Science Research. He has over a decade of experience as a research and policy analyst, working at the intersection of labour rights and public policy. His work has focused on freedom of association,…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    High cost of austerity

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 23, 2023 After winning the 2016 provincial election, then-premier Brian Pallister moved Manitoba’s department of Indigenous and northern affairs under the municipal relations banner — suggesting a radical change in how the government viewed treaty rights, Indigenous rights, and working with First…

  • "Budget 2024" written on a coiled paper pad on a desk.

    Our recommendations for the 2024 BC budget

    The BC government is holding its annual public consultation on Budget 2024 this June, inviting British Columbians to share their priorities for government investment next year.  On June 14, I presented the CCPA–BC’s recommendations to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. Via the BC Legislative Assembly website,…

  • Search and Replace

    The Case for a Made-in-Canada Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Fleet Download 3.15 MB40 pages This report, released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, responds to news that Treasury Board has granted “first-phase approval” of $3.8 billion for new search-and-rescue planes, and calls on the government…

  • Team of factory workers quality inspecting the raw-material on production line. Image of one worker's hands moving products on the line

    CERB helped jobless workers rebound from massive pandemic-related unemployment: Survey

    New report shows positive impact on CERB recipients READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—A national survey of Canadian workers who received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) during the pandemic lockdown say the income support not only gave them peace of mind, it helped them springboard back into the job…

  • Getting a grip on essential medical supplies

    A version of this blog was published as an op ed in the Toronto Star. Canadians won a reprieve when the Trump administration and 3M, a leading manufacturer of N-95 respirators, struck a deal allowing the company to continue supplying customers in Canada and Latin America. The U.S.-based multinational will reportedly…

  • Fast Facts: Now, more than ever, we need Rent Assist helping Manitobans

    Rent Assist is a made-in-Manitoba solution to housing need: a province-wide rent supplement program that helps lower-income renters in the private market to afford housing at 75 percent of median market rents. Since it was introduced in 2014, it has enabled tens of thousands of Manitoba households to secure and…

  • Fact-Checking Manitoba Budget Claims

    1. Claim: “Budget 2023 removes 47,400 low-income Manitobans from the tax rolls and saves the average family $1,000” Impact: More of the Basic Personal Amount tax change money will go to Manitoba’s richest 10% than the bottom 50% combined. The poorest 10% (100,100 Manitobans) get no benefit from this change…

  • Conservative cuts really just a “spending moratorium”

    The Tale of the Kluane Lake Research Station When is a cut not a cut? According to the Conservative Government, when it’s a “spending moratorium.” As Robert Service once rhymed, “There are strange things done ‘neath the midnight sun.” This is a tale of an important research station, a government…

  • They huff and they puff: More overblown claims about a $15 minimum wage

    Another week, another business lobby report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. Actually, we’ve seen this one before: the business lobby group that bills itself as the Keep Ontario Working coalition has re-released a report by the Canadian…