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  • Back to the “Good” Old Days

    Child labour rampant in Asia, serfdom on the rise here “The disparity in income between the rich and the poor is merely the survival of the fittest. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God.”      —John D. Rockefeller, 1894.    During…

  • New CIDA Reforms Risk Excluding the Poorest of the Poor

    In June 2001, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) released a policy document proposing distinct new terms for development aid. The report, called “Strengthening Aid Effectiveness,” outlines a new direction for CIDA and new terms of reference for distributing aid.[1] On the one hand, it ties aid to global security,…

  • Fast Facts: Upholding the Legacy of Joseph Zuken: Roz Usiskin Citizen Activist

    In 2017, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB) assumed responsibility for the Joseph Zuken Citizen Activist Award, which was established in 1987. Joe Zuken was a legend in Winnipeg’s North End.  He was a lawyer and politician.  He served for 42 consecutive years as a School Trustee and Winnipeg…

  • 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…

  • Rising Inequality, Declining Democracy

    The “Occupy Canada” movement (with a little help from CCPA research) has raised public awareness of the unprecedented growth in income inequality and wealth concentration in Canada over the last 30 years. And recent reports from the OECD and the Conference Board confirming this trend have raised alarm bells amongst…

  • Image: Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, one month after the November 2015 breach. © Bruno Milanez, PoEMAS / UFJF

    Tailings dam collapses in the Americas: Lessons learned?

    In fewer than five years, three major dam collapses have occurred in the Americas—the most recent of which killed more than 230 people, and likely killed up to 260; many of the dead have never been recovered from the toxic mining sludge in which they were buried. The disasters that…

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    Rapport sur les travailleurs racialisés et autochtones dans des emplois à risque d’infection par la COVID-19

    TORONTO—Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les travailleurs autochtones et racialisés ont été plus nombreux, tout au long de la pandémie, à occuper des emplois les mettant en contact étroit avec d’autres personnes, ce qui a augmenté leur risque d’infection par la COVID-19. Intitulé Un…

  • November 2006: Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable

    Oil-dependent civilization will end before century does Whether the human species will survive this century is now—or should be—the main concern of everyone. It’s no longer a far-fetched Chicken Little “the-sky-is-falling” bugaboo. Enough evidence has been found to show us beyond doubt that the next several decades will be the…

  • November 2000: Arming A Genocidal Force

    Canadian military exports to Indonesia, 1979-1999 As the Indonesian army and its militias set fire to Dili and killed thousands of East Timorese in September 1999, the Canadian government refused to stop the export of military goods to Indonesia. This at a time when even the United States, Jakarta’s main…

  • Mosquito Wars: Politics, Economics or Science?

    Heated debates are going on again in Brandon and Winnipeg about the most effective way to deal with mosquitoes. In thinking about this issue it is useful to begin with the broad historical context of mosquito control, and then to follow with a look at some recent and current research…

  • Time to mobilize like we mean it

    Lessons from the Second World War for the climate emergency Even before the arrival of COVID-19, the history of the Second World War was making a remarkable comeback. Our movie theatres (remember those?), Netflix offerings and bookstore shelves were full of modern reboots of our mid-century wartime experience. Then the…

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    BC needs a full public inquiry into fracking

    Last year, more natural gas was produced in British Columbia than at any point in the past 10 years. That may come as a surprise to some people who thought that growth in BC’s natural gas industry hinged on the emergence of a Liquefied Natural Gas sector. It does not.…