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  • “No Bang for the Buck” report finds that forty percent of military contracts are “non-competitive”

    (Ottawa) Federal spending on multi-billion dollar military contracts has been mired in complaints of improper conduct as the government embarks on its $17 billion build-up of aircraft, helicopters, warships and vehicles. A study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives called “No Bang for the Buck: Military contracting…

  • Renovating Rental Regulations

    The Honourable Jim Rondeau, Minister of Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs recently introduced legislation to modify the Residential Tenancies Act. CCPA-MB was invited, along with representatives from several other community organizations, to meet with the Minister, as he was seeking to inform and hear from the community on these…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    How German Opposition Could Sink a Major Canadian Trade Pact

    Furor over mechanism allowing foreign investors to sue states could sap CETA. Originally published June 20, 2014 on TheTyee.ca Editor’s note: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative’s trade policy analyst Scott Sinclair visited Berlin recently to testify on the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) before the Food, Agriculture…

  • Coal association gets free pass on election advertising while public interest groups chilled

    Just when I thought the situation with BC’s third party advertising rules couldn’t get any more ridiculous, this comes in from the “Are You Kidding Me?!” department: According to The Tyee, a three page advertorial for the Canadian Coal Association “extolling the virtues of BC’s coal industry” in last week’s…

  • Lac-Mégantic: Suppressing the Truth Behind Regulatory Failure

    Last week, 10 months after disaster struck the town of Lac-Mégantic, Québec government prosecutors laid criminal charges against three front-line employees of Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA). Each suspect, paraded publicly in handcuffs in a classic U.S. style “perp walk,” was charged with 47 counts of criminal negligence causing…

  • Sweet heart, bitter pill: Rising, dancing, and costing violence against women in Canada

    On Valentine’s Day this year women around the world will be dancing. One Billion Rising, a new initiative from Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler, calls on women to dance their way to a future without violence. Now, I’m all for dancing, but I’d like to add a little counting into the mix. …

  • September 2008: The WTO Doha Round Breakdown

    Developing nations are blamed, but they blame the U.S. The World Trade Organization’s meeting in Geneva in July, as it opened, was described by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy as a “moment of truth” in the negotiations for a new global trade deal. But, after nine days of talks among a…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Conservative tax cuts quickly draining public purse: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—The Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) Economic and Fiscal Update, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, projects that the federal government will have budget surpluses of $4.2 billion in 2006-07 and $4.0 billion in 2007-08. The report, by CCPA Senior Economist…

  • November 2006: Canada’s Fatally Flawed Afghan Mission

    Harper is happy to turn Canada from peacemaker to war-maker It is alarming for many Canadians to watch Stephen Harper, the head of a minority government with the support of fewer than 40% of citizens, turn Canada into a nation of war. But that is what is happening. The roots…

  • Fast Facts: City no longer a player in poverty reduction

    Winnipeg falls further behind other cities with proposed budget cuts The City of Winnipeg’s preliminary operating budget for 2013 cuts spending on poverty reduction, housing, and neighbourhood initiatives at a time when government leadership and resources are desperately needed to address economic and social inequality. The document indicates that the…

  • Retirement income system failing individual Canadians: study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA— Canada’s retirement income system may work well for the mutual fund industry but it’s failing individual Canadians, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Risky Business: Canada’s Retirement Income System, by economist Hugh Mackenzie, reviews the performance of…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Softwood deal will spur more raw log exports

    The recent vote in the House of Commons ratifying the softwood lumber agreement with the United States may bring temporary relief in Canada’s long running dispute with its biggest trading partner. But it comes at a terrible price, one that British Columbia, the province with the lion’s share of US…