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  • Four planks for a bold and progressive BC jobs agenda

    BC needs a revitalized jobs plan. The provincial government’s narrow focus on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) hasn’t worked. The government hitched BC’s economic wagon to the elusive investment decisions of foreign transnational corporations, and to the ups and downs of international commodity prices, and the hoped-for investment simply didn’t materialize.…

  • Good Economy Project

    Reducing poverty and carbon emissions: lessons from Manitoba

    I often get asked about alternatives to our fossil-fuelled status quo. In recent years, there have been many new projects that point to the way forward, that get beyond vague statements about reducing carbon emissions and boosting clean energy. Our CCPA-BC office held a conference last year to examine new approaches…

  • Defeating a government doesn’t have to trigger an 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 proper.” My father was writing in 1953, but…

  • Fast Facts: Réseau de santé « parallèle » : le loup dans la bergerie

    Cet article de Fast Facts a été publié le 19 février dans le Winnipeg Free Press. Presque en même temps, les médias parlaient du Rapport Castonguay au Québec. Ce rapport faisait suite à la décision rendue par une faible majorité en Cour suprême, l’année précédente, et qui ouvrait la voie…

  • Fast Facts: Towards restarting disability supports in Manitoba in the COVID-19 Era

    On March 18, Day Support Programs providing supports to persons with intellectual disabilities went in to critical service mode. The move to critical services meant that the majority of Day Program Services were closed in keeping with public health requirements and to keep our most vulnerable populations safe during the…

  • Dr. Jim Silver recipient of 2020 IPAC Manitoba LG Award

    The Manitoba office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives congratulates Dr. Jim Silver as the recipient of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the IPAC Manitoba region. Jim co-founded the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba office in 1997 with Wayne Anthony and the late Errol…

  • Fast Facts: Inconsistent Information for Environmental Review

    Frac Sand Mining in Manitoba Update from “What the Frack is Happening in Manitoba” Nov. 22, 2018 see tab below. The corporation proposing a major mining operation on the shores of Lake Winnipeg is not providing accurate and timely information. This is putting the integrity of the public environmental review…

  • Work standards must change as economy re-opens in wake of COVID-19: New report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT VANCOUVER – Governments, employers and unions must all work urgently to address several critical weaknesses in Canada’s employment laws and policies to ensure the re-opening of the economy in the wake of COVID-19 can be safe and sustained. That’s the core message of…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to reduce poverty and green house gases

    A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The provincial government and Manitoba Hydro are supporting social enterprises so they can work in two…

  • BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office (Oct. 2022)

    Download 2.14 MB12 pages In this issue: The Rise of public contracts to corporate clinics in BC Marjorie Griffin Cohen: 2022 Rosenbluth Lecture How to pay for a massive expansion of public rental homes Next steps for affordable child care Reconciliation in action? Anticlimactic and anti-climate: BC’s oil and gas…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: More than a Dream

    Many of us have, like John Lennon, imagined a world without war, greed, hunger or possessions. There are those rare individuals who insist that we should settle for nothing less, that humankind’s true heart is to live in communities guided by understanding, compassion and social justice. This year May Works…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Reconciliation Lives Here

    State of the Inner City Report 2016 This year’s State of the Inner City Report tackles arguably the most important issue of our time: healing and reconciling Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. A year and a half after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 94 Calls to Action were released,…