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  • Canada’s Afghanistan intervention is a disastrous failure

    Canada has been part of the evolving Afghanistan intervention in a variety of ways since it began in early October 2001, and the substantial 2005-2011 redeployment to Kandahar is having a deep impact on our military and foreign policy. The 2011 withdrawal date for the Canadian combat mission in Kandahar…

  • Statistics Canada’s Senseless Census Decision

    Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada June 30, 2010 Open letter to the Honourable Tony Clement, Ministry of Industry and Minister Responsible for Statistics Canada and Munir Sheikh, Chief Statistician, Statistics Canada Dear…

  • The “Unsustainability Myth”

    Don’t believe claims Medicare is becoming unaffordable Total health care spending in Canada has been rising in recent years, taking larger shares of government revenues and budgets. It has been accused of “crowding out” government funding of other important public services. Some economists and pundits are now predicting that, left…

  • Fast Facts: Poor No More?

    The long hard climb back to economic justice Imagine a Canada where we all have a roof over our heads, childcare for our children, access to education and a job that pays a decent wage. Imagine a Canada where we all can look forward to retiring without financial worry. As…

  • Harper’s flawed federal securities regulation plan

    Stephen Harper loves bragging about Canada’s stellar record of financial regulation. So it is a tad awkward to admit the architecture of Canada’s securities regulation is strictly bush league. Canada has a patchwork of provincial securities regulators, while other countries like the US have federal securities watchdogs (like the Securities…

  • The Latin American Revolution (Part VI)

    Countries in Latin America move to regional integration “The people have risen like a great Lazarus… so let’s hurry with our unity, to speed up the changes that have already been on their way: the Bank of the South, the unity of our oil and energy companies, the social programs,…

  • Nurses’ work deserves attention during the Ontario election

    This winter, a bad flu season that resulted in overcrowded emergency rooms shone a light on the need for a reinvestment in Ontario’s health care system.  There were crushing workloads for nurses and health care workers, whose jobs are becoming increasingly precarious—thanks to austerity measures. Starting in 2012-13, the Ontario…

  • Private Gain or Public Interest?

    Canadians should benefit fairly from oil and gas they own Canada’s oil and gas industry can and should be converted to a public-interest industry whose mandate would be to serve the broader public interest, not just the private interests of owners and shareholders. At present, the private corporations that dominate…

  • Gender pay gap shadows women all along income ladder: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – The average pay gap between men and women stands at 29.4 per cent in Ontario — a gap that shadows women every step of the way up the income ladder, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Government must act to renew forests

    BC’s modest tree-planting goals are falling far short of the need Few events offer as compelling an example of what climate change may mean for British Columbia as does the mountain pine beetle and its impact on our forests. In the aftermath of the beetle attack, more than one billion…

  • BC government’s spin cycle on LNG

    Last year, we made freedom of information requests to the BC government about two CCPA-BC studies: A Clear Look at LNG by David Hughes (released May 26) and LNG and Employment in BC by myself (released July 28). Both reports poke holes in extravagant claims being made by the BC government about natural gas supplies, environmental…

  • Portrait of a diverse group of supportive women smiling while sitting together outdoors on patio during a summer wellness retreat
    Making Women Count

    Making Women Count

    The Unequal Economics of Women’s Work Download 3.44 MB 5 pages This study, co-published by CCPA and Oxfam Canada, looks at how women in Canada and around the world are affected by rising inequality, including the burden of unpaid work, the undervaluing of work in predominantly female fields, and the…