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  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: That’s What Unions Do

    Back in February, 2013, CCPA-Mb  put out a Fast Facts  titled Six Unions: One Voice1  which chronicled the many problems faced by staff at the University of Manitoba campus . We explained how an intense process of corporatization was negatively affecting all manner of University employees, from tenured professors to…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Canada’s looming forestry crisis

    People rarely get excited about bugs, except in summertime when mosquitoes swarm and thoughts turn to West Nile Virus. But there is plenty to get excited about when considering a certain beetle now overrunning British Columbia’s forests, a bug that is on a frightening flight path toward Canada’s cross-country, northern…

  • July 2005: Peak Oil and the End of Globalization

    U.S. dependence on oil drives its efforts to control what’s left When Paul Martin met with George Bush and Vicente Fox in Texas last March to chart further continental integration (while Martin’s neo-liberal competitor for the Liberal Party crown, John Manley, was pushing for even further subordination of Canada’s economic…

  • July 2005: The Best Health Care Money Can Buy?

    Supreme Court ruling pushes Medicare to brink of two-tier abyss The Supreme Court’s recent decision favouring private health insurance didn’t sound the death knell for Medicare, but it did grease the skids for a faster slide into a two-tier system. Ralph Klein and other neo-con provincial politicians rightly see it…

  • Gov’t investment in postsecondary education more than pays for itself: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA— Public investment in postsecondary education is paid back to governments in full and helps to reduce the financial risks taken on by students, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by economist and…

  • Future of Canada’s submarine program is in doubt, report finds

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – A new report on the future of Canada’s submarine program has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.  “That Sinking Feeling: Canada’s Submarine Program Springs a Leak” was written by University of British Columbia…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    The Pains of Health Care Privatization

    Guess who does the cooking and cleaning in BC hospitals and nursing homes? If you answered “mostly women,” you would be right. It’s not exactly news that service jobs in Canada are usually done by women. In the Lower Mainland, many of the cleaners and food service workers in our…

  • Growing Gap
    Making Women Count

    Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by CCPA Research Associate Kate McInturff, looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between…

  • Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?

    An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events from drought to floods to powerful storms and record-breaking temperatures…

  • Federal spending cuts disproportionately focused on services: analysis

    28,700 federal public service jobs to be cut by 2016 CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite assurances by the federal government that spending cuts would target the “back office” and avoid cuts to services, a new analysis by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds spending cuts have…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Fossil fuel divestment necessary in order to avoid “carbon bubble”: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Canada’s economy is experiencing a “carbon bubble” that could have significant consequences for Canada’s financial markets and pension funds, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Between two-thirds and four-fifths of known fossil fuel reserves have…

  • February 2005: OPEC and the Alberta Advantage

    Alberta’s oil riches created by OPEC, not by politicians or CEOs To fully understand oil-rich Alberta’s status as Canada’s most affluent province, and how it achieved that prosperity, it is necessary first to look briefly at the history of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC. *                 *                   …