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    Big transportation investments needed now in Metro Vancouver: Budget 2018

    In Metro Vancouver, as the region’s population has grown so has its congestion problems. Whether enduring a long wait to cross a bridge or get on a bus, everyone can relate to the additional time and stress caused by a transportation system under strain. Metro Vancouver is, for all intents…

  • Work Life: When does Temporary become Permanent?

    Each year up to 400 mostly Mexican workers come to Manitoba under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) to work on local farms. They perform physically strenuous work on vegetable farms and in greenhouses for up to eight months, year after year. Workers regularly toil twelve hours per day, six…

  • Fast Facts: Manitoba Ranked Highest for Indigenous Child Poverty

    Children need to feel and see they are important members of their communities and treated as such. A new study out Tuesday finds that Manitoba has the highest number of on-reserve First Nations children in poverty in the country at 76 per cent and the highest indigenous children in poverty…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Fossil fuel divestment necessary in order to avoid “carbon bubble”: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada’s economy is experiencing a “carbon bubble” that could have significant consequences for Canada’s financial markets and pension funds, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Between two-thirds and four-fifths of known fossil fuel reserves have…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Infographic: Private surgeries in BC

    The BC Minister of Health needs to go on record: Will the government go ahead with plans to allow private clinics to perform major surgeries requiring up to 3-day stays? This will drastically change our health care system and put BC at the forefront of hospital privatization. British Columbians have…

  • Crowley’s Red Hot Labour Market

    Brian Lee Crowley’s latest column shows he’s a glass-half-full kinda guy. We shouldn’t be worried about unemployment because a) it’s old-fashioned, b) Boomers had it worse (and now they’re getting old) c) we’re doing better than the U.S., and d) it’s really only young people and immigrants that are unemployed. This is…

  • Le gouvernement devrait chercher d’autres solutions pour remplacer les Sea King, selon un rapport d’experts

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Ottawa — L’Institut Rideau et le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives viennent de publier un rapport fouillé et en profondeur sur l’acquisition des hélicoptères maritimes. « La pire acquisition de l’histoire du Canada »: pour résoudre la crise des hélicoptères maritimes est un rapport produit…

  • Encore budget offers pittance to tackle Nova Scotia’s real needs

    The new provincial Liberal government budget is pretty lacklustre. We expected it to be much the same as the one tabled prior to the April election and, sure enough, it is almost identical. Based on our work with alternative budgets, I have admittedly high expectations of what a government can…

  • They huff and they puff: More overblown claims about a $15 minimum wage

    Another week, another business lobby report that exaggerates the potential negative impact of Ontario’s plan to increase the minimum wage to $15 by 2019. Actually, we’ve seen this one before: the business lobby group that bills itself as the Keep Ontario Working coalition has re-released a report by the Canadian…

  • The Victims Of Drones (Part I)

    Opposition to U.S. drone attacks rises globally and in U.S. Joe Lombardo is co-coordinator of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC), the largest anti-war coalition in the United States. He is also a founding member of Project Salaam, a group that helps Muslims persecuted (mainly by the government) in the…

  • It’s Time for an Equality Premier

    Imagine if Ontario’s incoming Premier – lauded for breaking the inequality barrier on two counts – decided to parlay her victory into a post-austerity focus on solutions to income inequality. Now that would be truly groundbreaking. And it couldn’t come at a better time. Brand new data from Statistics Canada…

  • Income inequality spikes in Canada’s big cities

    OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis of new data on Canada’s richest 1% shows how much the income gap has been rising in Canada. The richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation). The bottom 90% of Canadians saw income…