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  • Hennessy’s Index: December 2013

    2013: Year In Review 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 January 2 By 1:18 p.m. on this date most workers had just finished lunch on the first working day…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: The Living Wage

    An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour, 55 per cent of minimum wage earners in Manitoba are adults twenty years and older; 51 per cent of minimum-wage earners work for companies with…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: The Canada Jobs Grant

    Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion There are now many examples of policies introduced by the federal government that will have significant implications for Indigenous sovereignty, preservation of language and culture, environmental protection and social and economic inclusion. Some government actions are explicitly targeted at Aboriginal people. Other policies are more broadly focused…

  • Hidden agenda behind the attack on the CPP

    Study CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Critics of Canada’s public pension system are engaging in scare tactics, a prominent pension expert charges. In a new study Pensions Under Attack: What’s behind the push to privatize public pensions, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, independent economist…

  • Time to redesign BC’s GHG policy

    No matter where you stand on GHGs and climate change, one thing is very clear. British Columbia GHG policy is a mess. It is not just that GHG reduction targets were legislated without any credible plan to achieve them and, given our current industrial strategy, little prospect of doing so.…

  • Corporate Child Abuse

    Profit-driven system exploits, mistreats vulnerable youth “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul,” Nelson Mandela says, “than the way in which it treats its children.” Who would disagree? Yet today children may be assaulted, diseased, or killed by pervasive corporate drugs, junk foods and beverages, perverted by…

  • Fast Facts: National Household Survey and Housing in Manitoba

    Last week, Statistics Canada released data from the third and final instalment of its 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). The new data dealt with housing and income of Canadians. It is still unclear how compatible this new data is with the Census data this survey was intended to replace.  However,…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Water withdrawal stats run dry

    Nestlé will voluntary disclose such vital information, but BC government doesn’t seem interested in asking Here’s a question that our provincial government ought to be able to answer but can’t: How much water is the world’s biggest bottled water seller withdrawing from wells in British Columbia? The province doesn’t know…

  • Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state funding for the film industry

    France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates within both societies. We shall…

  • Letter: Continue LiveSmartBC Energy Incentive Program

    My letter to Christy Clark, Premier of BC; Rich Colman, Ministry of Energy and Mines; Mike de Jong, Ministry of Finance; Terry Lake, Minister of Environment; Adrian Dix, Leader of the Opposition; John Horgan, Official Opposition House Leader and Opposition Critic for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; Rob Fleming, Opposition Critic for Environment: I am a writing…

  • Fast Facts: Housing Housing Everywhere

    One way to make some of it affordable The Province of Manitoba recently introduced a bill that would allow municipalities in Manitoba to encourage or require new developments to include affordable housing. This step will hopefully lead to a wider range of housing options in new housing developments in Manitoba.…

  • What if the minimum wage was a living wage?

    Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better minimum wage, and a concept…