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What a progressive federal budget would look like
There is something profoundly sad and uninspiring about recent federal budget debates. For the better part of two decades now, we have been preoccupied with issues of deficits, debt, cutbacks and now tax cuts. But budgets should, in an ideal world, be a reflection of a society’s values and priorities.…
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Leaked numbers sound alarm on welfare time limits
The clock is ticking on BC’s new welfare time limits, and as the reality of the looming social crisis sinks in, people are getting nervous. Most anxious of all are those who have spent a year or more on social assistance. Starting April 1st, most “employable” people without kids who’ve…
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BC government warned that new welfare policies combined with slow economy spell upheaval, hardship in communities across the province
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – BC’s provincial government received a warning today from researchers who say its package of new welfare rules is radical and unprecedented, and will cause unacceptable hardship and upheaval in communities across BC. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Social Planning…
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Profiting from a manufactured housing crisis
New technical report reveals that investors bank tax-free earnings as tenants struggle to pay rent READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO—The 4.8 million women, men and children living in rental housing in Ontario remain mired in the province’s worst housing crisis in more than a decade. But the bad news…
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“Where’s the money coming from?
The money needed to “fix” Medicare can easily be found Of all the many questions raised by the Romanow Report, the one most often asked is “Where’s the money coming from?”–and it’s the one question that should not be asked at all. The money needed to “fix” Medicare–whether it’s the…
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Canada-EU trade deal will hurt Canada’s auto industry: Study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will only exacerbate the Canadian auto industry’s recent decline, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by Unifor economist and CCPA vice-president Jim Stanford, analyses CETA’s likely…
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Work Life: Temporary Foreign Workers: How federal settlement policies overlook some newcomers
Manitoba has embarked on aggressive immigration strategies to attract newcomers to settle in a variety of communities in the province with the purpose of meeting local labour force demands. In response to these trends, it is necessary to have appropriate and effective support systems to assist in the long-term settlement…
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School board budget struggles reflect provincial funding cuts
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. “The budget crises experienced by school boards across the province this year shouldn’t surprise anyone”, the author of a new CCPA study says. “The boards’ budget struggles are in direct response to massive cuts in education funding by the Conservative Government since it took office…
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The tax freedom daze
It is hard to argue against freedom. After all, no one wants to be constrained from doing what they want to do. Free marketeers are particularly adamant about their freedom to choose in the marketplace, and about how to spend their incomes. Every year, the ultra-conservative Fraser Institute pronounces Tax…
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Ernie Eves’ short life as a departure from Mike Harris
It was quite a let-down from Thursday to Friday of last week, as Thursday’s feel-good words from the Ernie Eves Government in the Throne Speech gave way to the Minister of Education’s elaborately disguised education funding cuts on Friday. What has been advertised as an increase in funding of $350…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001
DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and unknowingly enlisted as accomplices in the sale of children to commercial interests. This facet of the economic imperative is obscured by the siren call of…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Winter 2002
September 11th and My ESL Class September 11th has marked us all. Many historians have used World War I to mark the beginning of the twentieth century. Perhaps future historians will use the terrorist attacks on this day as a real marker for the beginning of a radically different twenty…