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  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: “Indians Wear Red”

    Aboriginal Street Gangs in Winnipeg They were kids when they started. Teenagers locked up in the youth detention centre, watching movies about American street gangs. Soon they realized that if they stood up for each other, and worked together, it was easier to survive. They said, “Hey, maybe we should…

  • Private clinics no help to Canada’s public health care system

    The election campaign has re-opened the debate about private clinics. Promoters of these clinics argue they will decrease waiting times and supplement, not undercut, the public system. Experience and evidence from across Canada and around the world, however, suggests that private clinics increase the cost of health care and waiting…

  • Federal government moving backwards in workplace safety

    On April 28, the National Day of Mourning for workers killed on the job, we are reminded that although workplace injuries and fatalities may be accidents, they are preventable.  While preventing injuries and deaths benefits both employer and employee, it is always left to government to create and enforce regulatory…

  • Federal government undermining workplace safety: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—On the eve of the National Day of Mourning for workers killed on the job, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is releasing two studies highlighting the need for improved health and safety enforcement and regulation. According to Success is No Accident,…

  • Fast Facts: Treating Poverty with Income

    A recent report by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) examines the health of tenants in Manitoba Housing. It finds that overall, tenants in Manitoba Housing have worse health outcomes than other Manitobans. However, when income is taken into account, the report finds that tenants in Manitoba housing have…

  • A Very Canadian Coup

    The top 10 ways that Canada aided the 2004 coup in Haiti and helped subject Haitians to a brutal reign of terror Things went from bad to worse after Canada’s Liberal government helped plan and carry out the 2004 regime change in Haiti that illegally ousted President Aristide’s democratically-elected government.…

  • Pipe Dreams: The risky bets behind Ottawa’s TMX purchase

    The federal government’s decision, announced this morning, to purchase the existing Trans Mountain pipeline and the pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion is politically risky, economically perilous and, as we’ve said many times before, impossible to justify on environmental grounds. It all looks even worse when you…

  • Ten suggestions to lead a better life without growth (part 1)

    Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very relevant critiques concerning the economics of accumulation,…

  • Ontario election 2018: Turning votes into seats

    In Ontario’s first-past-the-post electoral system, it’s not just a matter of counting votes. Here are a few things to think about that may help determine who wins—and who loses—on June 7: Geography matters Governments change when the same people vote differently, or when different people vote the same—but in a…

  • Lessons from the 2013 BC Election: What’s a progressive research institute to do?

    As I write, it has been just a few days since the provincial election. As was the case for most of you, the result was unexpected. We are still processing what it means for our work and rethinking some of our research plans. For those of us who engage in…

  • Creating a Just Society

    Reducing poverty, inequality will spur economic recovery An economic recovery that is mainly reliant on consumer spending is unavoidably fragile, since most Canadian consumers are now deeply in debt. Going into the Great Recession, the average Canadian household owed $1.40 for every dollar of disposable income. By mid-2009, that figure…

  • Au point mort

    les familles manitobaines travaillent dur juste pour faire du sur place En mars 2007, le bureau national du CCPA publiait un rapport sur l’inégalité des revenus au Canada au cours des trente dernières années. Ce rapport intitulé The Rich and the Rest of Us : The Changing Face of Canada’s Growing…