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  • Ten considerations for the next Alberta budget

    On November 16, I participated in a workshop organized by the Alberta Alternative Budget Working Group. Held at the University of Alberta’s main campus, speakers discussed macroeconomic, health care and social policy considerations for the next Alberta budget. Here are 10 things to know: 1) Alberta’s still recovering from a…

  • Making Women Count

    Study: The Economic Leadership and Prosperity of Canadian Women

    Testimony to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, April 30, 2014 Download 124.72 KB5 pages Kate McInturff is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. She is the director of the CCPA’s initiative on gender equality and public policy, Making Women Count, and is an…

  • What’s missing from the Uber debate? Market power, congestion, pollution, and even deaths

    The BC government has introduced legislation expected to bring ride-hailing to the province late next year, though many questions remain about what the outcome will be in practice. A number of important policy details still need to be filled in by the Passenger Transportation Board and ICBC. Meanwhile the debate…

  • Employer Health Tax refinements good news for public services, non-profits

    Just over a month before the new Employer Health Tax comes into effect, we have some of the final details of the tax’s design at hand. The provincial government released implementation details for the tax (EHT) over the summer and introduced legislation to enact it last month. The EHT replaces…

  • June 2004: The Indymedia Phenomenon

    The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be uploaded Wih the rise of “networked” society, we have seen the emergence of democratic social movements with a distinctly global orientation. Such movements are increasingly informed by, and dependent upon, information technologies and computer-mediated communication for their organizational activities, their ability…

  • CCPA joins global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay

    Amazon’s rise from online bookseller to trillion-dollar global logistics, internet, merchandising and entertainment behemoth was fast and ferocious. Behind the same-day deliveries and trend-setting television series is a company committed to ruthlessly destroying productive economic activity and debasing workers. It is helped along in this pursuit by aggressive (but legal) tax…

  • Comments on the Fair Elections Act (Bill C-23)

    The CCPA was invited to appear before The House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to present on Bill C-23, the Fair Elections Act. Patti Tamara Lenard, an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and CCPA Research Associate, presented…

  • Shale gas industry given water rights without public or First Nations consultation

    On February 15 of this year, Calgary-based Canbriam Energy Inc. quietly applied to the BC government for the rights to pull billions of litres of water out of Williston Reservoir, the ultimate source of much of our province’s hydroelectricity. The application was the second submitted in less than a year.…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Il faut oublier les chasseurs, créer des emplois et non faire la guerre, selon un centre de réflexion

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives exhorte Ottawa à répondre aux préoccupations financières réelles des Canadiens au lieu de les laisser tomber dans la tempête politique qui se prépare à cause du budget fédéral et d’élections possibles. Avec la publication de…

  • Making Women Count

    Ontario’s Gender Gap

    Women and Jobs Post-Recession Download 353.84 KB21 pages A recovery strategy that aims to put Ontario back where it was in 2007 means no progress for women. Women had lower levels of employment and higher levels of poverty before, during and after the recession. Young women were among the biggest…

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    Getting to pro rep: How I plan to rank the options

    Debunking the claims of proportional representation naysayers This post is part 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. During these weeks leading up to the electoral reform…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Community Economic Development in Manitoba and the Inclusive Economy

    Manitoba is a province of economic growth and economic disparity. It is a province with low unemployment rates, diverse development, and incredible resource wealth.  On the flip side, Manitoba has continuously had some of the highest child poverty rates in Canada, and the highest homicide rates, and Winnipeg has been…