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  • September 2007: Challenging the Aristocrats

    Inequality is no longer just offensive, it’s intolerable “There is the multitude, and there are the natural leaders. Wealth, birth and culture mark out the man to whom a community looks to undertake its government. These men have the leisure and the fortune… They are the aristocracy, and the rulers…

  • Wages, markets and temporary workers

    Last November, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced a scheme to speed up the processing of temporary workers for Alberta and British Columbia. The Minister appears to have been concerned with ongoing reports of large numbers of job vacancies going unfilled. In response, he pursued several initiatives,…

  • Big oil’s big day

    Stelmach takes it away; Flaherty gives it right back, and more These are pretty exciting times for Canada’s oil patch. Crude oil prices are at record highs, and showing no signs of declining. Most of its current production is either conventional or from the oil sands, both at historic costs…

  • June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution

    Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially developed as yet, it covers 138,000 square kilometers of northern Alberta–an area as large as the state of Florida. At yet, only the surface oil…

  • Manitoba by the Numbers: Population

    The first in a series Population Indicators 1,303,900 Manitoba’s population estimated by Statistics Canada as of January 1, 2016.[1] 16,200 The amount the Manitoba Bureau of Statistics estimates Statistics Canada undercounted Manitoba’s population number above. This impacts per capita transfers from the federal government to Manitoba. 1.71% Manitoba’s population growth…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s growing gap at new 30-year high

    Majority of families working harder, less payoff READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Canadian families are putting in more work time, yet most – 80% of them – are getting a smaller share of Canada’s growing economy, says a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The…

  • Has BC’s economy turned the corner?

    Over the past three years, BC’s public policy landscape has been reshaped. The Campbell government has implemented wide-ranging measures–most of which have been long sought by BC business–in the name of making the provincial economy more “competitive.” While this economic “medicine” has been hard to swallow for many–including hospital workers,…

  • Budgeting transparency

    Ottawa could learn from Victoria If the recent federal budget was a conscious attempt by the government to address the fallout from the sponsorship scandal, it failed the test. The budget documents are as opaque as ever in terms of giving Canadians an inkling of how and where the federal…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns

    Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada Western Region; ForestEthics; Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada; Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter; Sierra Legal Defence Fund; United Steelworkers District 3…

  • Saskatchewan Alternative Provincial Budget

    Addressing Poverty and Inequality during a Time of Prosperity READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Economic growth is supposed to benefit everyone, right? That’s not the case right now in Saskatchewan but it doesn’t have to be that way, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which released its Alternative Provincial…

  • Les troupes canadiennes essuient le plus gros des pertes de la coalition

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA—Chez les forces de la coalition en Afghanistan, le fardeau des pertes que les Forces canadiennes subissent est disproportionné, selon Canada’s Fallen, un rapport diffusé aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives. Ce rapport, rédigé par les analystes de la défense Steven Staples…

  • Canadian troops bearing brunt of coalition casualties

    OTTAWA—Canadian Forces are incurring a disproportionately heavy burden of casualties among coalition forces in Afghanistan, says Canada’s Fallen, a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The report, written by defence analysts Steven Staples and Bill Robinson, raises serious questions about why Canada is taking such heavy…