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  • New Director for CCPA-MB appointed

    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba is pleased to announce the appointment of Molly McCracken to the position of Director, CCPA-MB. Ms. McCracken brings more than 14 years’ experience in social-action research, policy development, and management with not-for-profit organizations and government. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy & Administration…

  • Fast Facts: Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare

    Before the findings of the Hughes Commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies needlessly, we must all be reminded that there are more issues at play than the effectiveness of the Child Welfare System. The article “Broken Childhoods”…

  • Youth employment measures in #bdgt14 do little to fix a big problem

    It’s not unreasonable to say that Canada has a youth employment crisis. The employment rate for youth in January was at one of its lowest points since the start of the recession, at 50.6%[i]. That’s only 0.1% higher than it was two years ago and down by a tenth compared…

  • Going… Going… Gone?

    Slowly, stealthily, progressive state is being dismantled Most Canadians, according to one poll at least, did not much like the recent federal budget, but still found it benign. No matter how often the government tells us it is changing the game, we seem reluctant to believe it. But governments rarely…

  • Corporate rights under serious scrutiny in Europe. Canada fast asleep.

    On Feb. 3rd, I made a presentation  in Vancouver to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade on the proposed Canada/E.U. trade deal (C.E.T.A.). I was there on behalf of CUPE B.C. The Committee, chaired by Alberta Conservative M.P. Rob Merrifield, was in B.C. to review both C.E.T.A.…

  • Saskpower: Coal-dependent laggard or renewable energy leader?

    Regina — The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office released today Transforming Saskatchewan’s Electrical Future: The Potential for Wind and Solar Power, by Mark Bigland-Pritchard, a member of Green Energy Project Saskatchewan. The report offers a practical and workable set of integrated proposals for electrical generation in the medium…

  • Fighting poverty through tax credit reform

    One way to fight extreme inequality is to have a progressive tax system. We mostly think about this in the form of progressive income tax brackets, which are structured so that those who have higher incomes pay higher tax rates. Other taxes, however, like sales tax or the carbon tax,…

  • Fast Facts: Winnipeg-Where the buildings have no names and the streets have no crossings

    Nearly forty years ago, in March 1979, Winnipeg city councillor Joe Zuken led a band of a dozen or so pedestrians in what is likely to have been city’s most celebrated act of jaywalking. The day before, city council’s ban on pedestrian crossing of Portage and Main had come into…

  • State of the Inner City Report 2017

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Challenges in Measuring Value and Impact in Community-Based Programming Download 4.41 MB 36 pages Emerging out of conversation and collaboration with community-based partners we examine the issue most pressing to them. This year we heard that community-based organizations (CBOs) are  confused and…

  • Public and social services jobs: an economic lifeline in communities across Ontario

    In Ontario, there is mourning about the loss of manufacturing jobs. There is concern about the growth of precarious service jobs. And there is enthusiasm about the prospects of knowledge-based jobs. But in the midst of all of this, where are the present-day middle-income jobs? The red line in Figure…

  • When Is A Conservative Not A Conservative?

    Today we learned that Rights and Democracy — an agency established by Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1988 to monitor human rights and democratic development internationally —  has been terminated. The closure follows similar shutdowns by the Harper Conservatives of organizations that bear witness to these trends internationally, such as…

  • Fast Facts: The View From Here 2015

    Manitobans call for a Renewed Poverty Reduction Plan WINNIPEG—To address persistent poverty in this province, community groups have outlined a plan to provide Manitobans with the tools they need for a life of dignity and opportunity. The View from Here 2015: Manitobans Call for a Renewed Poverty Reduction Plan assembles…