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  • BC should transition to 100% non-profit and public delivery of seniors care post-crisis: researchers

    READ THE REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER — The coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on serious problems in Canada’s seniors care system and after the crisis the BC government should begin to transition away from its reliance on contracting with for-profit companies, say two Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives research associates.…

  • Fast Facts: Under-investment and over-policing: safe biking for whom?

    In Winnipeg, hundreds of tickets have been issued for cycling on the sidewalk or “failing to exercise due care”. The vast majority of these have been in central neighbourhoods where there are few safe bike routes. The huge differences in where tickets are issued – primarily in low-income and racialized…

  • Massive Secret Surveillance in Canada

    Canadian government spies on Brazil — and its own citizens In the September issue of the CCPA Monitor, I reported on the U.S. National Security Agency’s (NSA) spying on hundreds of millions of its citizens, as revealed by whistle-blower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Now it appears that the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    L’AECG mènera à une hausse du coût des médicaments

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa—L’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (AECG) mènera à une hausse significative du coût des médicaments selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). L’étude examine les dernières révélations concernant l’accord provisoire et…

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    3 problems with the Fraser Institute’s alarmist report on health care spending

    A new report from the Fraser Institute declares: “Health care spending by British Columbia’s government is unsustainable.” But watchers of Canadian politics know to take that declaration with generous heap of salt, since we hear cries of “out-of-control health care spending” like clockwork from certain quarters (followed by calls for…

  • Why American doctors are calling for Canadian-style medicare

    In a dramatic show of physician support for deep health care reform in the U.S., more than 2,200 physician leaders have signed a “Physician’s Proposal” calling for sweeping change. The proposal, published May 5 2016 in the American Journal of Public Health, calls for the creation of a publicly financed,…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Investing in education for low-income adults pays off

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The province must invest in education programs for low-income adults with upgrading needs if it wants achieve its goal of making BC the best-educated and most literate jurisdiction in North America. Shauna Butterwick, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Workplace Safety a motherhood issue? Not yet.

    In Manitoba, messages about the importance of workplace health and safety are hard to miss. The SAFE Work campaigns run year-round by the Workers Compensation Board are trying to foster a culture of workplace health and safety in which it becomes socially unacceptable to put workers in harm’s way. After…

  • 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…

  • Deconstructing BC Hydro’s Rate Increase

    When the government imposed its Energy Plan on BC Hydro it never bothered to estimate the costs (or for that matter the benefits) of what it hoped to achieve. Ardent supporters of that Plan, like my good friend Mark Jaccard, constructed scenarios under which it would make sense to force…

  • Atlantica concept must be put on map for public discussion

    I suspect that few Atlantic Canadians would argue against the potential benefits of improving trade ties with our New England neighbours. So the controversy surrounding proposals for an “Atlantica” trade zone spanning Atlantic Canada and northern New England may come as a surprise. However, a study released last week by…

  • UNSPUN: Mainstream media, reconciliation and Wab Kinew

    Winnipeg Free Press columnist Gordon Sinclair’s depiction of Wab Kinew is offensive with damaging implications that reach beyond the election (WFP March 12th and 26th, 2016). Sinclair uses his privileged position as a columnist to portray Kinew as a violent man who can’t be trusted; a person with ulterior motives…