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  • Self-employed workers deserve social benefits

    In Canada, about 2.5 million people (approximately 15 per cent of the labour force) are classified as “self-employed.” Nova Scotia has about 31,000 (12 per cent.) Trend lines show the proportion of such workers has risen steadily in the past three decades, with some spikes in bad economic times. It’s…

  • Economics for Everyone, First Edition

    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Economics is too important to be left to the economists. Economics for Everyone is a brilliantly concise and readable book that provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn’t).  Jim Stanford’s book…

  • New community development model emerging in Saskatoon inner city

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Saskatoon – According to a recent Centre for Policy Alternatives groundbreaking study on inner city community development, a unique form of ‘bottom up’ development in Saskatoon and Winnipeg has been created largely by core residents themselves. Professor Jim Silver, University of Winnipeg, says…

  • Free trade has failed to live up to its promises—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Twenty years after Canada signed the Free Trade Agreement its biggest boosters have grown wealthier but promises ofbetter jobs and rising living standards fell short, says a study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement was…

  • December 2007: The Environmental Keynesian Alternative

    Environmental crisis calls for World-War-II-type collaboration As people become ever-more aware of climate change and ecological crisis, they are worried, anxious, and looking for solutions. Forgive me if I’m a heretic, but I think the time has passed for telling them to change their behaviour and their lightbulbs, claiming that…

  • Hidden Montebello SPP agreement on industrial chemicals will weaken Canadian regulation—report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Contrary to assurances from Prime Minister Harper, an SPP regulatory agreement signed at Montebello sets Canada on course toward a single North American regime for regulating industrial chemicals that will almost certainly weaken the existing Canadian regulatory system and erode policy autonomy, says…

  • La privatisation : le cheval de Troie des services publics

    Une des principales dynamiques de notre époque est la pression exercée sur les gouvernements pour offrir plus de services publics en utilisant moins de ressources. La population vieillit, l’infrastructure urbaine se détériore et, avec l’immigration et la mondialisation croissantes du commerce, tous les paliers de gouvernement font face à une…

  • May 2007: Pharmaceutical Secrecy Endangers Our Health

    Drug research now done mainly to protect profits, not public health Secrecy has always been the norm in the pharmaceutical arena, but over the past decade it has taken on even greater significance as the funding of medical research has swung from something that was done to improve public health…

  • May 2007: Canada’s Lack of Affordable Housing

    Rent supplements help, but only if landlords cooperate There are many ways in which money for affordable housing can be put to use. Three key methods are: build non-profit housing; provide housing allowances or rent supplements; and provide tax credits for the developers of rental housing. All three methods have…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Federal surplus evaporating: Think-tank

    Harper plan at odds with Canadian priorities CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — The Harper government is on the brink of exhausting its fiscal surplus on a pre-election spending plan that is at odds with what Canadians want, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Centre…

  • Growing Gap

    Canada’s Rich and Poor

    Moving in Opposite Directions Download 832.62 KB 20 pages In a study for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), economist David Green found the gap didn’t grow as much over the 1980s as it did in the 1990s – especially post-1995, following cuts to government transfers and taxes. Both…

  • Growing Gap

    No New Year’s hangover for top CEOs

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – By 12:13 pm on New Year’s Day, while many Canadians were still nursing a hangover, Canada”s 100 highest paid CEOs had already pocketed what will take minimum wage workers the rest of 2007 to earn. The clock keeps ticking. By 9:46…