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  • Grey Power

    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 0 Number of times Prime Minister Stephen Harper…

  • Manitoba tax changes need to target wealthy to reduce poverty

    Basic Personal Exemption (BPE) increases are being brought in by the new provincial government under the auspices of reducing poverty. The BPE is the floor at which we start paying provincial income taxes. Not only will these changes do little to help low-income earners, they will bring in less revenue…

  • Growing Gap

    Corporate executive pay rose an average of $171K in 2020 despite pandemic: report

    Tweaks to bonus pay rules helped protect top executives’ pay CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Top executives of some of Canada’s largest companies saw their total pay in 2020 increase by an average of 17 per cent, or $171,000, compared to 2019, according to a new report from…

  • Fast Facts: Searching for fairness in Manitoba’s Carbon Tax

    Last month our office released a report authored by Harvey Stevens that found the federal carbon tax will reduce more greenhouse gases than the proposed Made in Manitoba Climate and Green Plan. The Premier responded that the federal escalating carbon price will hurt Manitobans (Federal carbon plan seen by think…

  • Fires and farmworkers: Climate justice means improving protections for migrant farmworkers

    The impacts of the climate crisis are socially and geographically uneven: the wealthiest regions contribute disproportionately to the destruction of the planet while the poorest regions suffer the heaviest consequences. In this context, migrant farmworkers find themselves doubly displaced, facing droughts and inundations in their home countries, then heatwaves, fires…

  • Labour Market Regulation and Labour Market Performance

    A release by the Fraser Institute – Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States, 2012 Edition – registers as a spectacular own goal. The Fraser Institute believes – and argues in this study – that strong unions, high minimum wages and high levels of public sector employment undermine labour market…

  • Crime, Punishment and Politics

    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 26 Percentage drop in Canada’s crime severity index (a measure of the seriousness of…

  • The Monitor, September/October 2023

    The world is on fire and we have to put it out.

  • Electoral reform will not enable the far right: Debunking a red herring

    Debunking the claims of proportional representation naysayers This is the second post of a series explaining the benefits of proportional representation and debunking myths from the ‘No’ side of BC’s 2018 electoral reform referendum. More from the series is available at policynote.ca/pr4bc. It is now clear that a core assertion…

  • Flying Without a Net

    The Economic Freedom (For the Rest of Us) Index, 2000 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (OTTAWA)–Although the economic well-being of Canadian workers has improved notably in the past two years, it remains significantly poorer than before the last recession, mainly because of a sharp decline in social programs…

  • CCPA-NS responds to budget consultations

    In The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein shows that a perceived crisis can be used to frighten people into accepting unpopular “reforms” as “solutions,” such as shrinking of the state, privatization and the loss of public services.  But, she notes, a crisis can also motivate people to defend the institutions they…

  • Fraser Institute cries wolf over Ontario’s $15 minimum wage

    By Sheila Block and Michal Rozworski Each week, it seems, we see a new report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to get to a $15 minimum wage by 2019. Using a selective reading of the economic research and ignoring the more recent consensus in the profession,…