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  • Making Women Count

    The best and worst cities in Canada to be a woman in 2017: Study

    OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) uncovers the best and worst cities to be a woman in Canada. Victoria ranks highest, while big gaps in income and employment leave Windsor in last place for the second year in a row. The report, by…

  • Carbon Capture and Storage: Magic Bullet or Delusion?

    Depending on who you talk to, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is either the face of climate salvation or the height of delusional behaviour associated with our favourite hallucinogenic drug, fossil fuels. I have read both cases and suspect that the truth is somewhere in between, but I’m not an…

  • Good Economy Project
    Growing Gap

    Can we have an adult conversation about taxes?

    At the risk of insulting a generation of 4-year-olds, it’s time we had an adult conversation in Canada about taxes and public services. Most 4-year-olds have figured out that when you go to the store to get something you want, you have to be prepared to pay for it. Yet…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Oil Politics in the Patch

    Climate Change Resistance and Cultures of Silence CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Regina — In the wake of “The Price of Oil” investigation into oil industry impacts in Saskatchewan by the Toronto Star, National Observer and Global News, the realities of living with the health and environmental effects…

  • Canada breaks ranks on bankers’ bonuses

    Canada likes to think of itself as the country that emerged from the financial crisis squeaky clean. Too bad it is abdicating a leadership role in creating a safer financial system going forward. The issue is bonuses paid to top executives in the financial sector. It looks like the Europeans…

  • Take Two: BC Budget 2009 September Update (Notes from Marc and Iglika)

    The September BC Budget is a new look at a budget most have come to see as a fake. February’s budget was not passed through the legislature due to the May election, and up to E-Day the government maintained the fiction that it had a small-ish deficit of just under…

  • Le véritable enjeu des garderies

    Un tout nouveau rapport de l’UNICEF véhicule des renseignements importants pour les Manitobains et Manitobaines. Cette information devrait susciter des mesures immédiates. L’étude, intitulée The Child Care Transition, révèle que les habitants des pays les plus riches de la planète passent une grande partie de leur petite enfance dans un…

  • Fast Facts: Racisme policier

    Depuis le tout premier jour de l’enquête sur le décès de Matthew Dumas, atteint d’une balle tirée par un policier de Winnipeg, maître Robert Tapper prend la peine d’insister sur le fait que la race n’a rien à voir avec la mort de monsieur Dumas. Dans son rapport publié récemment,…

  • Call for better construction worker safety in study released on 28th anniversary of tragic Bentall Tower IV accident

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – On the 28th anniversary of the deaths of four construction workers on the Bentall Tower IV, the BC Building Trades Council and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new study calling on the province to significantly improve safety in the construction…

  • AIMS misleading the public on gas price regulation

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX – A new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in Nova Scotia busts the myth that was created by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) that regulation of prices at the gas pump ‘robs from consumers’ in Atlantic Canada.…

  • November 2008: Dark Days

    How four Canadians were tortured in the “fight on terror” Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror, by Kerry Pither, Viking Canada, 460 pages, hard cover, $35.00. * * * Much has been written about four Muslim Canadians who were falsely accused of…

  • Stop putting debt reduction, tax cuts over equality

    Alternative Provincial Budget CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Manitoba’s NDP government has not reversed the neglect of the poorest, most vulnerable Manitobans that was begun under the Filmon government. Money that could have been used to increase equality in the province has instead gone toward income tax cuts…