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  • The Monitor, March/April 2021

    One year later Download 5.4 MB “More than an infectious pathogen,” writes Michal Rozworski in his feature analysis for this issue, “the novel coronavirus is a very harsh mirror held up to pre-pandemic reality… It is exposing the true cost of hollowed-out public services, debilitated trade unions, and cross-cutting economic…

  • Discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic

    Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Johnston, Independent Special Rapporteur, Government of Canada from the Advisory Group, Canada-China Focus. Signatories below. We are deeply concerned that discussions of foreign interference and national security can quickly become toxic as we have already seen in the accusations that a respected Chinese Canadian senator and…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Bill 48 strips workers of their basic rights

    Study says bill should be repealed, and minimum employment standards restored for all workers READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – Legislation that allows employers to “opt out” of minimum legal employment standards has resulted in substandard and unfair working conditions and may be unconstitutional, according to a study released…

  • Reducing the space for democracy – one speaker from the CCPA’s 30th anniversary

    Last week I was lucky enough to join 250 people in Ottawa for a daylong conference to honour the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.  Nine different speakers and two intelligent moderators focused the audience on the democratic and economic challenges we face as a Canadians and…

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    Five lessons from BC’s horrific wildfire season

    In British Columbia, climate change is no longer something abstract for the future. The late June heat dome event—that claimed 500-600 lives—and the wildfires that followed confirm that climate change is a clear and present danger that’s not going away any time soon. As of September 28, some 867,000 hectares…

  • Social Watch

    Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer

    Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives Download 108.1 KB2 pages

  • Fast Facts: The government of Manitoba is failing Manitobans every step of the way in their pandemic response and needs to do better

    No one in the world has had all the answers, and there are bound to be mistakes and missteps. But the chronic lack of preparedness, slow responses and a legacy of austerity has resulted in more suffering in uncertain times. Without adequate investment in public health care now and into…

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    Threatened caribou further endangered: Suppressed audit shows Oil and Gas Commission undermining provincial efforts to save species

    On an April morning in 2014, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation tucked into a helicopter to begin a day of flying to fossil fuel company operations in their territory. The Nation’s lands are part of the expansive Treaty 8 territory that includes northeast British Columbia. A professional biologist…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows

    VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural gas repeatedly broke rules intended to protect threatened boreal caribou. The document, obtained by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), underscores lax regulatory oversight…

  • The politics of stalling

    What do same-sex marriage and the federal budget have in common?  We can’t figure it out either, but both issues are being sucked into the vortex of high parliamentary drama. Political parties (even renegade individuals within political parties) are exploiting both issues to indulge their political grandstanding. Threats are being…

  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity

    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English and in French). What do the Occupy Movement and Canadian software giant OpenText have in common? Most…

  • Canadian women among poorest of the poor

    We used to hear a lot about the feminization of poverty. It hasn’t been in the news much lately. Yet women remain among the poorest of the poor in Canada, and the percentage of women living in poverty is growing. Almost 19% of adult women are now poor – the…