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  • Increasing Aboriginal Labour Market Participation

    Making a case for Labour market intermediaries The Conference Board of Canada recently published a report titled Understanding the Value, Challenges, and Opportunities of Engaging Metis, Inuit, and First Nations Workers.  Organizations like the Conference Board are paying close attention to the fact that Canada’s Aboriginal population is growing at…

  • Australia’s LNG catastrophe: Why Petronas’ LNG cancellation is a blessing for BC

    British Columbians should not be lamenting Petronas’ decision to pull its Pacific Northwest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) proposal. Instead, they should be celebrating the demise of a project built on bad economics, climate change denial and wishful thinking. A few pundits have told the Petronas story as a tragedy. Some…

  • Growing Gap

    The Golden Cushion

    CEO compensation in Canada Download 492.96 KB 24 pages This report looks at CEO pay among Canada’s top-paid chief executive officers in 2019, based on company proxy circulars filed in 2020, and compares this to average incomes in the rest of the population in 2019. Though this same data is not yet available…

  • 5 things to know about small business income splitting

    This summer, the federal government proposed a series of reforms to the Income Tax Act designed to close certain tax loopholes and address tax avoidance. Finance Canada says these changes would impact Canadian-Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs) in three key areas: income “sprinkling” (a type of income splitting), passive investments made…

  • A little-known election is limiting your free expression rights

    You might not have noticed it, but since June 4th there has been an election going on in British Columbia – and legislation that governs that election severely limits what people can say about the issues relating to that election (and how they can say it) until the election is completed…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    As CETA comes into force provisionally, new cautions from Europe

    Earlier this year, the Liberal government passed legislation in the House of Commons that paved the way for the full ratification of the Canada–EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Today, it is celebrating the provisional coming into force of that agreement, stealing some thunder from the Conservatives who negotiated…

  • Labour, environment and manufacturing interests unite to oppose proposal by BC’s biggest private landowner to scrap log export rules

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — Ottawa must reject demands by British Columbia’s biggest raw log exporters that would make it even easier for them to ship raw logs out of the country, say a number of organizations that worry deregulation will harm both BC’s forests and rural communities.…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans

    What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home Care is to assist people who need help with a variety of physical, personal and health-related necessities in order to stay in their own homes…

  • The Vision Thing

    For many years now, the year 2010 has had an almost mythic quality to it. More than just a decade-ending round number (we never collectively named that decade; I like “the naughties” myself), it had deep meaning for BC because THEY WERE COMING. The Olympics. Vancouver 2010. In the early…

  • 2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Willful Neglect?

    Click here to download the pdf version of this file.

  • Statement from the CCPA on systemic state violence and anti-Black racism

    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is angered and outraged by ongoing police violence and brutality against Black citizens and protestors across the continent. And while much of the current media attention is focused on the United States, these same problems are painfully alive and present across Canada, including in…

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    CCPA statement on systemic state violence and anti-Black racism

    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is angered and outraged by ongoing police violence and brutality against Black citizens and protestors across the continent. And while much of the current media attention is focused on the United States, these same problems are painfully alive and present across Canada, including in…