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  • An Apple a Day

    We need real health care, not an illness-treatment system A few years ago, one of the Wizard of Oz comic strips showed a doctor standing outside his office glaring across the street at a vendor with a cart full of apples. “Beat it!” yells the doctor. “I’m trying to make…

  • Paths to Union Renewal

    Canadian Experiences This new book focuses on the efforts and progress of union revialization and organizing, and documents the renewal initiatives undertaken by unions in Canada. Unions, separately or in coalition with other unions or social groups, have begun to re-examine the basis of their organization and activity in the…

  • Canadian workers’ paycheques in 30-year holding pattern : Study

    OTTAWA – Canadians are working harder and smarter, contributing to a growing economy, but their paycheques have been stagnant for the past 30 years, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Rising Profit Shares, Falling Wage Shares finds that Canada’s economy grew steadily and workers’…

  • Boondoggles in the Boreal

    Abandoned mines, oil and gas wells pollute our boreal forest A mid-March report — A Forest of Blue: Canada’s Boreal Forest, the World’s Waterkeeper — focuses on the health of our vast northern forest ecosystem, which covers 60% of Canada’s land mass. Issued by the Pew Environment Group (a U.S.…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD

    A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of its training program upon the breakdown of funding negotiations with the Provincial Government. BUILD (Building Urban Industries for Local Development) is a social enterprise. Its…

  • Fast Facts: The Gaslighting of Manitobans in Health Care

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on June 25, 2019 The health care overhaul has been well-documented in the media, and routinely questioned in the Legislative Assembly, yet transparency and accountability are lacking. In fact, our government has embarked on a communication strategy that can only be explained as…

  • Medicare being undermined by privatization

    What’s wrong with privatizing health care? Plenty. That’s the blunt conclusion of Health Care, Limited, a new synthesis report on the state of Canada’s health care system, prepared for the Council of Canadians by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Its conclusion? “Medicare can either be preserved or privatized. It…

  • La privatisation mine l’assurance-maladie

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas avec la privatisation des soins de santé? Bien des choses. C’est la conclusion tranchante des auteurs du rapport sur les soins de santé intitulé Health Care, Limited, un nouveau rapport de synthèse sur l’état du système de soins de…

  • Hospital worker, face not shown, bending towards a patient

    Rapport sur les travailleurs racialisés et autochtones dans des emplois à risque d’infection par la COVID-19

    TORONTO—Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les travailleurs autochtones et racialisés ont été plus nombreux, tout au long de la pandémie, à occuper des emplois les mettant en contact étroit avec d’autres personnes, ce qui a augmenté leur risque d’infection par la COVID-19. Intitulé Un…

  • BC is flush. It’s time for more robust investment in the common good.

    Can BC afford to make major new public investments to address crises in housing, climate change, health care, child care and toxic drugs, among others? The simple answer is yes, can we ever.  A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ national office shows that despite dire predictions…

  • The Monitor, November/December 2022

    Recharging North America: The Trade Issue Download 2.38 MBThe 1980s were an era of great debate over the right’s push for a “free trade” agenda that the CCPA, among many other progressive organizations, warned would cost jobs, weaken environmental standards, and lock in neoliberal austerity. It’s no fun saying we…

  • The Great Bear Rainforest – Carbon Store or Carbon Story?

    The provincial government, First Nations and environmental organizations alike have all hailed it as an ecological triumph and a shining beacon of a new economic order based on conservation principles. Yet when it comes to talking openly about one of the hallmarks of that emerging economy – a project that…