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    2022 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Kids Can’t Wait

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX/KJIPUKTUK – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2022 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Kids Can’t Wait. Findings based on 2020 data: Nova Scotia’s child poverty rate in 2020 decreased by 24.3%. This is the most…

  • Stop the Cheques, Invest in Education Instead

    Previously published in the Brandon Sun and the Winnipeg Free Press March 4, 2023 The Manitoba government is playing a shell game: using federal and inflationary windfall revenue to give out tax cuts while neglecting public spending needs. Manitobans want the province to stop the tax cuts and adequately fund…

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    The Manitoba government’s Homeless Strategy’s goals are worryingly modest when compared to what past governments have done

    The Manitoba government’s recently released Homelessness Strategy amounts to a belated recognition that to relieve the shortage of affordable housing that blunts and blights the lives of thousands of people in this province government might actually have to build some housing. One has to balance the province’s commitment to build…

  • Growing farmland inequality in the Prairies poses problems for all Canadians

    First published in The Conversation February 28, 2023 Real estate is a hot topic in Canada. Most Canadians are acutely aware of how home prices and rents have skyrocketed in the last 15 years or so. In large cities, investor ownership of condos and houses has attracted the attention of…

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…

  • 5 reasons to be skeptical of Keep Ontario Working’s “risk” analysis of Bill 148 and $15 minimum wage

    Keep Ontario Working (KOW), a coalition of business groups, has released its analysis of Bill 148, the legislation that will increase the minimum wage in Ontario to $15 per hour and introduce important improvements to working conditions. With the legislative window to make any changes to the Bill closing, KOW…

  • Still so far from home: An update on BC’s 114,000 homes promise

    There is a huge opportunity for the BC government, under new leadership, to address housing affordability by making major investments in non-market housing. A growing number of commentators have recognized that the market alone cannot solve BC’s housing problem, particularly for low- to middle-income households. Major investments in non-market housing…

  • Alberta’s energy war room reveals its true colours as a propaganda mill

    Last week my report “Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project” was published by the Parkland Institute and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The Canadian Energy Centre (aka Premier Jason Kenney’s “War Room”) took exception to my report and wrote a hit piece designed to discredit it,“A…

  • Provincial subsidies fuel logging of millions of additional old-growth trees

    First Nation, environmental and former labour leaders demand answers VANCOUVER – First Nation, environmental and former union leaders say the BC government must immediately disclose how many millions more old-growth trees are being logged thanks to provincial subsidies that reward logging companies with bonus trees to fall. The demand comes…

  • Nova Scotia has the worst provincial child poverty reduction record over 30 years—shows the 2021 Report Card

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Halifax, NS—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Worst Provincial Performance over 30 Years. This report provides the 2021 Child and Family Poverty rates for Nova Scotia, based on…

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    Renewable Regina

    Putting Equity into Action Download 879.11 KB14 pages The result of a truly collaborative research effort, Renewable Regina: Putting Equity into Action, makes the case that the City of Regina’s efforts to achieve 100 percent renewability must be equitable if they hope to succeed. Through focus groups with 38 organizations (community…

  • Being Involved in Uninvolved Contexts

    Refugee parent involvement in Children’s Education The involvement of refugee parents in their children’s education is crucial for academic success and community development. Yet, schools often struggle in promoting the involvement of newcomer parents, especially in contexts where there are language, cultural and socioeconomic challenges separating the school system and…