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  • Why Vote Childcare in 2015

    What Manitobans Need to Know Thirteen federal elections ago, in 1970, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended a national childcare program. Fast-forward to 2015, and Canadian parents are more desperate than ever for affordable, quality childcare. Up to 85 percent of all households with children have a…

  • Site C in early October, shortly after the Peace River was diverted so that construction could begin of the massive earth-filled dam that will permanently block the river.

    Who’s minding the shop at Site C?

    Appointment of engineer with long-term ties to BC Hydro to be government’s “independent” advisor on dam’s construction raises vexing questions In 2011, his last year as a salaried employee at BC Hydro, Tim Little earned just under $210,000 as the Crown corporation’s chief engineer. The next year, after decades of…

  • Fast Facts: How to really help Manitoba families

    Build a universal childcare system First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 22, 2016 Manitoba’s childcare system is staggering to meet the needs of parents and children, and recent signs give little confidence the new provincial government will respond effectively. Over a dozen community groups who are ready to…

  • How organizing led Nanaimo to adopt the doughnut economics framework

    They started during the worst of the pandemic—and won.

    They started during the worst of the pandemic—and won.

  • AFB 2024: Macroeconomic and fiscal projections

    Alternative Federal Budget: What the federal government could achieve on macroeconomics and fiscal projections

    Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on macroeconomics and fiscal projections

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    To break housing gridlock, we need to democratize unrepresentative public hearings

    Housing policy has a democracy problem. Amid a housing crisis, highly unrepresentative public hearing processes contribute to land-use decisions that fail to reflect the perspectives and interests of all affected residents. But the right reforms can help deepen democracy and break housing gridlock. At the municipal level, decisions about providing…

  • Canada is not going to build its way to housing affordability

    Supply-side housing economics ignores a number of important factors

    Supply-side housing economics ignores a number of important factors

  • Improving primary health care access: Lessons from Canada and Scotland

    It’s the foundation of the health care system, but the struggle to access primary care across Canada has become acute

  • What cuts to insect scientists tell us about federal austerity in Canada

    The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process

  • BC Hydro

    Losing sight at Site C

    Court documents and FOI materials show BC Hydro knew shale would move at troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion BC Hydro approved the pouring of massive amounts of concrete to build a buttress at its problem-plagued Site C dam project months before a critical drainage tunnel was…

  • The desperate need for a paradigm shift in establishment macroeconomics

    Mario Seccareccia argues that the COVID-19 crisis has shown us that it is time for a paradigm shift away from neoliberal policy in establishment macroeconomics. Seccareccia describes how the crisis, beginning with the preceding Global Financial Crisis of 2008, reversed many of the key conventional precepts that guided policy since…

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    Trade and Investment Research Project

    Elbows Up Economic Summit

    Building a sovereign, sustainable, value-added economy

    Donald Trump’s trade war and other attacks on Canadian sovereignty have exposed the vulnerabilities of Canada’s economy, 35 years after our first free trade deal with the U.S. The Elbows Up Economic Summit in Ottawa on September 2025 convened a discussion with 40 progressive economists and policy experts on how…