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  • July 2006: NAFTA’s Broken Promises

    Record shows “free trade” has been detrimental for most Canadians The impact of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement should be measured against the only standard that ultimately counts when evaluating public policy: has “free trade” bettered the lives of the people affected by…

  • BC throne speech repackages old announcements, lacks courage and vision

    Today’s Speech from the Throne reads more like a list of what this government sees as its main achievements than a true framework for going forward. New initiatives are few and far between, sandwiched between pages of self-congratulatory recap of the natural gas strategy, the jobs plan and highlights from…

  • Growing Gap

    Hennessy’s Index: February 2013

    The Dominance of Canada’s 1% 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 $201,400 The entry point to become one of Canada’s richest 1% of income earners. In other words, if you make…

  • New Shoes and a Haircut: Budget 2013 not so pretty for women in Canada

    The Finance Minister got a new pair of shoes. Canadians got a new federal budget. And women in Canada got another haircut. Budget 2013 is all about Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! And who wouldn’t like a job. Maybe some training. Maybe even a full-time job. With benefits. And a pension plan.…

  • REVIEW: Shannon’s Story of Hope and Healing

    It started slowly.  It usually does.  He chipped away at her self-esteem, isolated her from friends, then family.  She wasn’t allowed to work.  She wasn’t allowed to talk to others.  She wasn’t allowed to look at anyone.  So began fourteen years of hell with her abuser. Shannon was young when…

  • February 2006: The “Big Business Bang” Theory II

    If unbridled capitalism is the problem, what’s the solution? If you agree with the case I’ve made that almost all our most pressing social, economic, and environmental problems are caused and perpetuated by unbridled corporate power, the obvious question that arises is: how can that horribly misused power be tamed?…

  • The Attack on Organics

    Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus on what can only be called an attempt to trash organic food and organic farming – an attempt that, as we shall see, fits into a larger agenda.…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Every bite counts: Government must set menu for BC’s food system in face of climate change

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A new report is calling on the BC government to take action to make BC’s food system work better for farmers, eliminate hunger, shift away from imported products, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Every Bite Counts: Climate Justice and BC’s…

  • Taxes and human purpose

    I like paying taxes. Taxes allow us to pursue our aspirations collectively and thus they greatly enrich the quality of life for the average Canadian family. Taxes have brought us high quality public schools that remain our democratic treasure, low tuition at world class universities, freedom from fear of crippling…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part XV)

    Canadian company linked to the right-wing coup in Paraguay On July 22, one month after being ousted from power in a parliamentary coup, Paraguay’s leftist President Fernando Lugo publicly linked his removal to the interests of a Canadian mining company when he stated: “Those who pushed for the coup are…

  • Dix right to scrap balanced budget legislation

    Yesterday, Opposition leader Adrian Dix indicated that, if he wins government, he would scrap BC’s balanced budget legislation (BBL). His announcement has drawn some fire from predictable sources. Some media reports indicate that Dix appeared uncomfortable sharing this news. He shouldn’t have. Scrapping BBL is good public policy. CCPA researchers…

  • Ontario’s Tuition Problem

    At a time when Ontario’s government is promising a transformation of the province’s postsecondary education system, it would be wise to focus on a problem it helped create: The problem of high tuition. A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning, shows…