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Bill C-35 is a chance for the feds to fully implement accessible childcare—if they do it right
Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology consideration of Bill C-35
Presentation to the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology consideration of Bill C-35
November 6, 2023
Fletcher Baragar
Associate Professor, Economics, University of Manitoba
July 8, 2024
Open letter on regulating platform work from BC experts in labour law, policy and economics
The following is an open letter released today led by the CCPA–BC and the Centre for Future Work. It is signed by 61 leading experts in labour law, policy and economics (signatories listed below). The letter urges the BC government to implement strong measures to ensure that ride-share and food…
June 20, 2023
Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems
When we crunch the numbers, we don’t see a system bloated by high costs. And when we look at comparison countries, we see that budget cuts and falling revenue go hand-in-hand
There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costly and wasteful to operate in the digital age. Looking at the plans put forward by the federal government…
December 16, 2025
Fast Facts: A closer look at childcare affordability in Manitoba
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press on February 13, 2019 A new report by CCPA National (Developmental Milestones: Child Care Fees in Canada’s Big Cities) on childcare fees contains very mixed reviews of Manitoba and raises important questions about public policy. A closer look complicates the congratulatory confidence that…
February 14, 2019
Lifting the Bottom, Building a Fair Economy for All Workers in Nova Scotia
The Nova Scotia government has announced that employers will have to pay minimum wage workers 50 cents more per hour in 2026, with a 25-cent increase effective April 1 and another 25-cent increase in October. The government is following the legislated requirement and recommendation of the Minimum Wage Review Committee…
December 2, 2025
Manitoba Government Ignores Evidence For Supervised Consumption Sites
For years, Manitoba’s network of community organizations and public health and harm reduction experts have made the case for the introduction of supervised consumption sites in Manitoba. There are evidence-based models of care that will work for Manitoba. In February of 2022, the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network issued a comprehensive…
March 1, 2023
Site C’s radical makeover: What the ‘L’ is going on at problem-plagued dam construction project where costs keep piling up and completion remains years away?
BC Hydro knew 30 years before it started building the Site C dam that its chosen location for the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history had big problems. In fact, by the 1980s, BC Hydro had done tests showing that the ground at Site C had…
September 11, 2020
CCPA report confirms BC’s new investments in child care affordability are urgently needed
Last year, the BC government made a landmark investment to begin addressing the affordability crisis in child care. A new report released by CCPA this week shows just how urgently needed those measures were (and continue to be). The report, Developmental Milestones: Child care fees in Canada’s big cities 2018, shares…
February 7, 2019
Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs a Public Childcare System
On September 19, Manitoba launched an on-line consultation on the province’s next multi-year plan for childcare. Since 2002, Manitoba has had two five-year plans, each of which made incremental changes. A major redesign of childcare is long overdue. In 1890, the province began building public education, moving past one-room schoolhouses…
September 27, 2013
Understanding Precarity in BC

61 BC experts in labour law, policy and economics urge the BC government to bolster protections for platform-based workers
VANCOUVER — Amid the rapid surge of BC’s gig or “platform-based” economy, 61 leading experts in labour law, policy and economics are urgently calling on the provincial government to enforce stronger protections for gig workers. They also insist on mandating platform-based companies to fulfill the same labour and fiscal responsibilities…
June 20, 2023
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A Big Fracking Mess: As Site C dam construction bogs down in geotechnical problems, thousands of earthquakes triggered by fracking operations occur nearby
Earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations near BC Hydro’s troubled Site C dam construction project are far greater in number than previously thought, raising troubling questions about whether they are adding to the already formidable geotechnical challenges at the site. Not only are more earthquakes occurring in proximity…
August 12, 2020