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  • Chrystia Freeland’s golden opportunity

    There’s a global pandemic. A deep recession. And a federal budget deficit the size of last year’s revenues. Chrystia Freeland is becoming finance minister in interesting times. To make matters even more interesting, the country is divided. Like so many times in the past, it’s divided along political lines, with…

  • Spot the Seniors: 2013 Budget Edition

    As mentioned in last week’s Speech from the Throne and Tuesday’s 2013 provincial budget, BC’s population is aging. It’s projected the seniors population in BC will double over the next 25 years – meaning more than 30% of our population will be over the age of 65 by 2036. While…

  • Why should banks be free to create credit out of thin air?

    Ever since the Occupy movement came to Canada – even before that, actually – there’s been an enormous myth propagated that Canadian banks did nothing wrong. Our banks are strong and safe, our bankers and politicians assure us. They were prudent. And they weren’t bailed out. They pat the occupiers on the…

  • Fast Facts: Meeting the housing needs of Aboriginal people moving to Winnipeg

    Winnipeg is home to Canada’s largest Aboriginal population. Aboriginal people, however, are among the most likely to experience homelessness and are also over-represented in housing that is unaffordable, overcrowded or in poor condition. Finding housing has become a wall preventing many Aboriginal people from successfully making Winnipeg home. Moving to…

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    Reduced access to home support leaving frail seniors isolated

    Health system missing key preventive means to postpone and avoid more costly care READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–Reduced access to publicly-funded home support means frail seniors and people with disabilities are being left without the basic supports needed to monitor their health and postpone, or even avoid, the need…

  • Fast Facts: Austerity Round Two

    Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Premier Brian Pallister, won the provincial election on September 10, albeit with a slightly smaller majority than they had going into the campaign. We can expect the government to continue on its path of “fiscal responsibility,” i.e., budget cuts and austerity. Of specific concern to…

  • The Great Bear Rainforest – Carbon Store or Carbon Story?

    The provincial government, First Nations and environmental organizations alike have all hailed it as an ecological triumph and a shining beacon of a new economic order based on conservation principles. Yet when it comes to talking openly about one of the hallmarks of that emerging economy – a project that…

  • Queen’s Park makes plans for a decade of pain

    Last week’s Ontario fiscal update gave us our first real glimpse of how Premier Doug Ford sees the post-pandemic world. Here’s his plan in a nutshell: Once we corral COVID-19, it’s back to business as usual. Get ready for cuts to public services. “We’re going to continue being very fiscally conservative,”…

  • The European Financial Meltdown – Next in a Continuing Series

    As I write, the Europe’s sovereign debt crisis is a ticking bomb. Unprecedented events are happening at a mind-spinning pace.   In the middle of last week the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) offered to help bail out the struggling European countries.  By the end of the week,…

  • Eight charts that show highly unequal impact of COVID-19 on BC workers

    The COVID-19 crisis has caused unprecedented job losses across Canada and BC has not been spared. Between February and May nearly 590,000 BC workers lost their jobs or the majority of their hours—23 per cent of all workers employed in February—with that number reaching its peak of 645,000 in April. …

  • Let’s Put the Horse Before the Cart

    Why we need investment in social infrastructure In July, 2012, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba was invited by the federal government to participate, together with other groups representing a variety of industries, in consultations for its long-term infrastructure plan. Most presentations emphasized the need for traditional physical…

  • Making Women Count

    Abortion and Women’s Rights

    Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index 1892 The year parliament “criminalized the distribution and advertisement of contraceptives. Abortion became recognized…