Search results for “site/human rights”

  • July 2007: Our Less Than Stellar Foreign Relations

    Canada plays sordid role in suppression of democracy in Haiti Canadians generally have a very positive impression of their country’s role in world affairs, but Canada’s relations with Haiti challenge that perception. It would be wrong to say that Canada has done nothing positive on the world stage, but we…

  • Fast Facts: Protestors, Rights and Social Justice

    Much critical commentary has been directed at Aboriginal students and others who disrupted a recent talk by Phil Fontaine. I would like to offer a response that is different, but that nevertheless agrees that the right to speak and to be heard is essential in a democratic society. I believe…

  • May 2008: The Truth About Canada

    Some truly appalling things we should know about our country The Truth about Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About our Our Country, by Mel Hurtig, Douglas Gibson Books at McLelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 360 pages, $34.99. * * * In…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    High cost of austerity

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 23, 2023 After winning the 2016 provincial election, then-premier Brian Pallister moved Manitoba’s department of Indigenous and northern affairs under the municipal relations banner — suggesting a radical change in how the government viewed treaty rights, Indigenous rights, and working with First…

  • Tax breaks and subsidies for BC LNG

    At the height of LNG-mania in 2013/14, high prices in Asia fueled a gold rush mentality in BC—based on shipping cheap BC gas to Asia for mega-profits. But those high prices proved only temporary, and by 2015 the economic case for LNG (liquified natural gas) turned on its head. The…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Le PTP pourrait entraîner une détérioration de la balance commerciale du Canada et affaiblir les secteurs à forte intensité de main-d’œuvre, selon une étude

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT. OTTAWA – Pendant les consultations que mène le gouvernement fédéral sur le Partenariat transpacifique (PTP), une nouvelle étude du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) remet en question les immenses avantages commerciaux que le PTP est censé représenter pour le Canada. L’étude conclut que…

  • Nearly 200 arrests and counting

    Image: Rogue Collective (Flickr Creative Commons) The build started with a single West Coast cedar tree. In the early hours of March 10, against the backdrop of forest-covered Burnaby Mountain on the shores of B.C.’s Burrard Inlet, volunteers carried in wood planks and cement corner stones and set to work.…

  • Building a Stronger Foundation of Basic Workplace Rights for BC Workers

    CCPA-BC Response to the BC Law Institute Consultation Paper on the Employment Standards Act Download 1.54 MB 21 pages The CCPA-BC has a long track record of producing research and policy recommendations on employment standards. We have analyzed in depth the effects of the sweeping changes made in the early 2000s to…

  • Three ways BC can make it easier for precarious workers to unionize

    The BC Labour Relations Code is being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. Since the last comprehensive review, which took place in 2003, workers’ rights under the Code have been continuously eroded. The current review presents an important opportunity to reverse this trend by improving access to…

  • October 2007: Racism Remains A Problem

    Why are people of colour having trouble getting good jobs? A recent population projection study done for the Department of Canadian Heritage predicts that by 2017 one in every five residents of Canada will be a member of what the government defines as “a visible minority.” This means that, in…

  • November 2006: How Canadians “Protect” in Haiti

    Canada complicit in suppressing democracy in Haiti Does the Canadian-promoted “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine in Haiti include murder, rape, and threats of violence? That’s the question we should be asking Canadian officials after a study in the prestigious Lancet medical journal released at the end of August revealed there were…

  • Elevating Indigenous women’s voices is critical to addressing gendered colonial violence

    [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””] “No one deserves the violence and pain we go through.” “Nothing changes because our lives are not valued and because people think violence against us is ‘normal’ and ‘how it is’.” “There are so many things we experience that most people who…