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  • In Search of Child Care

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 3 million Number of Canadian moms of children aged 12 or younger who work in…

  • Fast Facts: Proposed legislation a sentence of poverty for low income workers

    Working should be a route out of poverty, but for some, low wages are a poverty trap. The current minimum wage is inadequate as at $11/ hour, it places workers as far as $8,000 below the poverty line. Minimum wage should be increased through pre-announced steps to $15.53/ hour and…

  • A Tale of Two Petro-States (Part I of III)

    Norway manages its oil wealth much better than Canada does Petroleum is a resource unlike any other. It is the world’s most strategically important and valuable resource. The world is dependent on fossil fuels for 80% of its energy, even though it is also threatening life on the planet. Countries…

  • Idea Factory

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index Bike Superhighway Like the one they built in Copenhagen: 11 miles of paved bike…

  • Making Women Count

    Abortion and Women’s Rights

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1892 The year parliament “criminalized the distribution and advertisement of contraceptives. Abortion became recognized…

  • Budget 2017/18 No Strategy No Change to Poverty

    Low income Manitobans were hoping that this year’s budget would offer a plan to help lift them out of poverty. A well-funded strategy with targets and timelines for its implementation and for reducing poverty would give Manitobans confidence that their government is making poverty reduction a top priority. However, despite…

  • The Sustainability Challenge

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 75,000 Square kilometres of Arctic sea ice that melted every day in August 2012.…

  • Food for Thought

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1948 The year the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,…

  • Austerity’s Discontents

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 75 million Number of youth, aged 15-24, who will be unemployed globally this year.…

  • Good Economy Project
    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    BC home to Canada’s second highest poverty rate

    New report: Province must stop rejecting need for poverty reduction plan READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – BC’s poverty rate is virtually unchanged from where it was a decade ago yet the province remains the only one in Canada without a poverty reduction plan. And it’s not because BC…

  • Federal Budget 2012: Death by 1,000 Cuts

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index $5.2 billion Annual cost of most recent round of public service cuts when fully…

  • Election 2011: Voter Suppression

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Scroll down for a PDF version. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 18 Minimum number of ridings in which Canadian…