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  • Canada’s Afghanistan intervention is a disastrous failure

    Canada has been part of the evolving Afghanistan intervention in a variety of ways since it began in early October 2001, and the substantial 2005-2011 redeployment to Kandahar is having a deep impact on our military and foreign policy. The 2011 withdrawal date for the Canadian combat mission in Kandahar…

  • Renovating Rental Regulations

    The Honourable Jim Rondeau, Minister of Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs recently introduced legislation to modify the Residential Tenancies Act. CCPA-MB was invited, along with representatives from several other community organizations, to meet with the Minister, as he was seeking to inform and hear from the community on these…

  • 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…

  • The Middle East Revolution (Part III)

    The Empire strikes back: Libya attacked by the U.S. and NATO No sooner had the popular revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia overthrown corrupt and repressive U.S.-backed dictatorships than Washington and NATO (led by a Canadian general) attacked Libya on March 19 with jet fighters and hundreds of missiles and bombs.…

  • Fast Facts: When was the first time you heard about CCPA Manitoba?

    June 1 – 7th is our second annual Supporter Drive Week. Help us continue to be your local source for alternative policy ideas and analysis. When was the first time you heard about the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) Manitoba? It may have been through the community-based research we…

  • Fast Facts: Building a community of opportunity and hope

    Lord Selkirk Park Recent events in Gilbert Park have cast Winnipeg’s North End public housing complexes in a negative light. An opposition politician has called Gilbert Park a “ghetto” and “crime incubator”. Some poverty ‘experts’, in statements attributed to them by the media, have implied that conditions in public housing…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s Carbon Conundrum and the Difficult Path Forward

    Since the first oil well was drilled in 1859 humans have been on a roll. Global population has increased more than six-fold and energy use per capita has grown more than nine-fold. Accompanying this explosive growth in energy use was unprecedented economic expansion— since 1965 global GDP has grown 6.8-fold…

  • UNSPUN: Manitoba’s Pension Record

    Pensions and the retirement security concerns of Canadians have been in the news in a big way in recent years. With two-thirds of Canadian workers not covered by a workplace pension plan and a majority of citizens not contributing to RRSPs (almost $1 trillion in unused contribution room) many look…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy Has Not Made Our Communities Safer

    Crime rates in Canada have been steadily declining for more than a decade, yet prison populations have been increasing in recent years. Commentators have attributed this disconnection between dropping crime rates and rising incarceration numbers to the Harper government’s tough on crime strategy. Since 2006 the Harper Conservatives have implemented…

  • The Wild West? Come on! Put your emotions in check

    The on-line newsmagazine, The Tyee, recently ran an opinion piece of mine under the headline “The Wild West and Dysfunctional BC Politics: Fracking and sour gas deserve debate, but get cartoon treatment from the Clark government.” My special thanks to Tyee editor David Beers or whoever it was who chose…

  • Good Economy Project

    Where do provincial by-election candidates stand on employment standards?

    The February 2 by-elections in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain offer an opportunity for candidates to clarify their parties’ positions on an important, often neglected, area of government policy – employment standards legislation. The BC Employment Standards Act governs the conditions in which people do paid work, and it is…

  • Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming

    The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to public spending will be severe and will cause much human damage. Deliberately crafted attempts to shift Canada’s political culture will not only make dissent, but…