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  • Fast Facts: Manitoba Continues to Ignore Aquifer Contamination Issue

    On November 5th, under cover of the pandemic crisis, the Manitoba government publicly released all of the public comments and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) responses to CanWhite Sands Corporation’s (CWS) silica sand project near Vivian, Manitoba. Additionally, the Director of the Environmental Approval made a recommendation that the Manitoba Minister…

  • Some baby steps for dad and big steps forward for women

    The government promised us a budget guided by gender analysis this year, and they delivered: on pay equity, on supports for women entrepreneurs and, in the warm fuzzy afterglow of Canada’s successful Olympics showing, a little something for women in sports. Investments in child care, women’s organizations and ending violence…

  • The Importance of Bill C-474

    Our farms need to be saved from genetically modified crops With the release of its National Food Policy on April 26, the federal Liberal Party is hoping to make agriculture a key election issue. Courting the rural vote with the “Rural Canada Matters” policy document, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announced,…

  • December 2008: Listen to Eugene Forsey

    Defeating a government doesn’t have to trigger election “One of the biggest threats to parliamentary democracy in Canada,” wrote the late constitutional expert Senator Eugene Forsey, “is the dogma that any government, regardless of circumstances, always has a dissolution in its pocket: that an appeal to the people is always…

  • Social housing reality check: government’s own numbers reveal modest investment in new social housing

    One of the more contentious issues regarding the BC government’s record concerns the issue of social housing. To hear Minister Rich Coleman tell it, BC’s record has been above and beyond. For the last few years, barely a week has gone by without a government news release (sometimes multiple per…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    TPP Deal Puts BC’s Privacy Laws in the Crosshairs

    British Columbia’s privacy laws are in the crosshairs of the nearly completed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. If you’re wondering what the heck data privacy protections have to do with trade, you’re not alone. Public awareness of the far-reaching, 12-country negotiation is scant, with polls showing three-quarters of Canadians have never even heard…

  • People don’t want cuts in government services: Ipsos-Reid

    An Ipsos-Reid poll of 800 British Columbians indicates people would rather see a deficit than see public services slashed. The poll was conducted in early August for the BC Federation of Labour.  It shows a solid majority of British Columbians disaprove of the way the government is handling the economic…

  • The federal government’s potential leap towards housing affordability

    This is an excerpt from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual Alternative Federal Budget chapter on housing. It outlines what an ambitious federal government could achieve on housing affordability in its 2024 budget. For a growing number of Canadians, the housing market is broken. In 2021, an estimated 1.5…

  • 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…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    NAFTA lawsuits cost Canada almost $100 million more than previously estimated: report

    OTTAWA – The federal government has spent more than $95 million in unrecoverable legal fees defending the ballooning number of investor-state lawsuits filed against Canada under NAFTA’s controversial investment chapter, according to new data obtained by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives via an access to information request. This newly…

  • Fast Facts: One hell of a winter unless province steps up on EIA and housing

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press October 19, 2020 Can you imagine your grandma deciding that sleeping outside is safer than in a shelter? For 75 year old Granny D, this was the choice she made during COVID 19. She did not want to be inside for fear of…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Na-gah mo Waabishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino (Singing White Crane Flying North)

    Gathering a Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation In many Indigenous Nations across the world, research is a contentious word because it has often been associated with a process of examination and analysis which lead to colo­nial judgments on Indigenous ways of life. As an extension of research, evaluation can also be…