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  • Fast Facts: Rite of Passage

    Graduating from high school is a rite of passage, but for students at risk, high school can be an oppressive and intimidating place. Programs like the Gordon Bell Senior Off Campus program (GBSOC) however, offer an alternative to the mainstream school system, allowing students to work at their own pace,…

  • My Welfare Food Challenge: Day 7 – The End

    Well, I’ve made it to the end of my week eating only what I could buy for $26. But eating the same thing for breakfast, lunch and dinner for seven days is no damn fun. I can’t wait to eat something different and fresh. Did a final weigh-in this morning.…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2001

    Class size in Alberta–an ongoing debate! The debate over class size in Alberta’s schools has sharpened significantly in the last few months. It has set parents and teachers against government. However, neither research nor polls seem likely to move the provincial government to enforce class sizes in kindergarten through grade…

  • March 2001: “Toxic Bob” Wastes Burma

    Forced labour and pollution rampant at Canadian-owned mine According to a recent report, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a Canadian company owned by Robert Friedland, is “raping the environment” and using forced labour in Burma. Ivanhoe operates the US$90 million Monywa copper mine, Burma’s largest mining investment, in a 50-50 partnership with…

  • Fast Facts: The Two Faces of Government Policy Towards Local Food

    Small farm owners Pam and Clint Cavers were blindsided on August 28, 2013 when Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) staff showed up to “seize and destroy” their locally produced and cured prosciutto (pork). Ironically, just months ago, MAFRI presented the Cavers with $10,000, naming their prosciutto the “Best…

  • Lowering Our Standards

    The right-wing Fraser Institute has released a paper that, if implemented, would dramatically lower our standards for worker pay, workers’ rights and workplace protections. It urges governments in Ontario and B.C. to adopt American-style “right-to-work” (RTW) laws which violate a core principle upheld in Canadian law: if a majority of…

  • Debt, Austerity, and Devastation

    Creditors get fatter financially, their victims get thinner Like plague in the 14th century, the scourge of debt has gradually migrated from South to North. Our 21st-century plague isn’t spread by flea-infested rats, but by deadly, ideology-infested neoliberal fundamentalists. Once they had names like Thatcher or Reagan; now they sound…

  • 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…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    What happened to the national home care program?

    In 1997, after wide consultation across the country, the federal government’s National Forum on Health concluded that home care should be considered an integral part of publicly funded health services. A year later, the National Conference on Home Care identified home care as a vitally important component of a responsive…

  • 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…

  • 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…