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  • Fast Facts: CCPA-MB research back social movements, leveraging change

    Evidence-based policy research can exert a powerful force for social change, especially when it stands with the community in its actions and organising. The role of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Manitoba is to inform social movements and to provide them the arguments they need to advocate for…

  • A Cheap Shot at the Poor

    Harper government scraps the National Council of Welfare Ever since its creation by an act of Parliament in 1969, the National Council of Welfare has been the only federal agency with a mandate devoted exclusively to improving the lives of low-income Canadians. The Harper government’s decision to scrap the Council…

  • Completing the job started by Mike Harris

    The crowning irony of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth budget is that it completes the job of cutting government down to size started by the Mike Harris Conservatives in the 1990s. You won’t find the direct attacks on public services and the people who deliver them that featured so prominently in…

  • CCPA calls for anti-poverty strategy in 2000 BC Budget

    (Vancouver) A stronger economy in 1999 will mean a much smaller deficit for 1999/00, creating room in the 2000 Budget for progressive policy choices, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives said today in a briefing with Finance Minster Paul Ramsey. “We are recommending a bold commitment to an anti-poverty strategy,”…

  • What the new federal budget means for BC

    At first glance, BC appears somewhat isolated from the economic challenges the rest of Canada is facing but there are a number of worrying signs. Nearly half of British Columbians see the economic conditions in BC as “poor” or “very poor”. The economy may be growing but prosperity is not broadly shared.Despite decent economic growth, poverty…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    A Path Out of Poverty

    Helping BC Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education Download 240.2 KB33 pages

  • Fast Facts: Government responds to calls to increase EIA shelter allowance

    This past weekend, Theresa Oswald, Minister of Jobs and the Economy said she agreed with a long-standing anti-poverty goal. “We agree that 75 percent as a target is the right goal”. The provincial government has finally heard the community’s cries to increase the Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) shelter allowance…

  • The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2005

    1989–2003 Download 507.71 KB20 pages

  • Alternative Federal Budget
    Growing Gap

    Better is Always Possible

    A Federal Plan to Tackle Poverty and Inequality Download 282.65 KB18 pages During the 2015 federal election campaign, the Liberal party campaigned vigorously on a promise to tackle inequality and substantially reduce child poverty. Proposals such as the Canada Child Benefit and 10% increase to the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS)…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    State of the Inner City Report 2013

    A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg Download 1.71 MB52 pages Sixteen youth from North and West End Winnipeg were given an important assignment: tell the stories of their neighbourhoods to the rest of Winnipeg for this year’s State of the Inner City Report. The CCPA’s Manitoba office worked with two…

  • Fast Facts: Post Election 2011

    How will the Selinger government move Manitoba forward? On October 4th Manitobans gave Selinger’s NDP a mandate to govern for the next four years. The NDP ran on a Doer-esque steady-as-she-goes platform with the slogan Let’s keep building. Don’t turn back. Eyes will now be watching to see how the…

  • Canadian women on their own are poorest of the poor

    Only 9% of all Canadians were considered poor in 2007. It was the lowest rate of low income in 30 years. But that was before the recession hit last fall. We don’t yet have income data for 2008, but, if past experience is anything to go by, poverty rates will…