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Testing the human right to water in Detroit
In March, the beleaguered—some would say besieged—city of Detroit, Michigan announced it would begin shutting off water services to between 1,500 and 3,000 households every week. It seemed impossible at the time but officials quickly made good on the promise. Detroit, the former industrial powerhouse of one of the world’s…
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British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch Shell should the global fossil fuel giant build a massive liquefied natural gas plant on our province’s north coast. Absent from the news then, however,…
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A fine balance
Canadian unions confront globalization CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Death through attrition and a barrage of anti-union legislation is the future for the Canadian labour movement unless it aggressively organizes thousands of new members every year. That’s the conclusion from A Fine Balance: Canadian Unions Confront Globalization, a…
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Credit where credit is due: Financial literacy and the new Ontario math curriculum
A new mathematics curriculum guide is set to drop this September in Ontario, the first update since 2005. Not only will students be heading back to the basics, they’ll also be introduced to a new “strand” of learning: financial literacy. The reason I’m so excited about this development is that…
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FastFacts: Keeping Them Poor
Women and the Minimum Wage Download 30.76 KB 2 pages Attachments Audio File: Keeping Them Poor: Women and the Minimum Wage
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July 2006: Our Country’s Shameful Human Rights Record
Canada opposes recognizing water as a basic human right Five million people die unnecessarily every year from lack of clean water. Each day, 6,000 children die from water-borne diseases. The United Nations estimates that, if current trends continue, more than two-thirds of the world’s population by 2025 will not have…
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Refocusing the Abortion Debate
Despite legalization, women face more barriers to abortion For the past year, Canadian national news outlets have led a distracting narrative about the status of abortion in Canada. They have focused almost solely on covering two motions in the House of Commons — motions with the potential to reopen the…
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April 2005: No News is Bad News
Does it do any good to complain about mass media failings? Journalism was always the career I wanted, almost from the time I learned to read and write, and I was fortunate to get into it while still in my teens. I became a reporter, columnist, and editor, worked for…
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Ten things to know about the newly signed federal-provincial-territorial housing framework agreement
A federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) framework agreement on housing was signed on April 10 in Toronto. It supports the Trudeau government’s National Housing Strategy, which was released last fall.Here are 10 things to know about the just-signed agreement: Though a National Housing Strategy (NHS) was released last fall, a federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) framework agreement still…
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BC’s poverty reduction plans: Progress and next steps
After years of the previous BC government refusing to develop a poverty reduction plan, the new provincial government is finally moving forward on a plan. The Confidence and Supply Agreement between the BC NDP and Greens includes a commitment to “design and implement a province-wide poverty reduction strategy.” This is…
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Fulfilling the Promise of the Parliamentary Budget Office: Bill C-476
Before there was a Parliamentary Budget Office, there was no way to independently assess the federal government’s economic and fiscal forecasts. In the late-1990s, we at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) were concerned that the Chretien government was deliberately hiding the true size of the budgetary surpluses that…
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Never free, never cleared
Canada’s ongoing terror obsession Two Canadian judicial decisions released in late May remind us that national security is incompatible with democracy: the former almost always trumps the latter. When doubts are raised about the fragility of democratic rights, as they were in the cases of Ottawa residents Mohamed Harkat and…
