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  • BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office

    January 2019 Download 2.99 MB12 pages In this issue: Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in BC Happy retirement, Dianne Novlan! BC’s shiny new climate plan: A look under the hood A conversation with new CCPA–BC Director Shannon Daub Recipients of the 2018 Power of Youth…

  • On Labour Day, think about unions as an equalizing force

    By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those who today attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them. Martin Luther King speaking in 1961 On Labour Day 2011 unions in North…

  • September 2004: Filling Our Tanks (And Brains) With The Wrong Fuel

    Lament for an election in which the crucial issue was ignored Anyone who has recently bought or leased a new car in Canada may find this warning in its Driver’s Manual: “In order to maintain good performance, fuel economy and emissions control, we strongly recommend the use of gasoline that…

  • Scapegoating the Poor

    Let’s start blaming the plutocrats, not their victims There’s an old African proverb that is becoming uncomfortably apt to apply to human behaviour in Canada: “As the waterhole gets smaller, the animals get meaner.” In other words, as the food, water, and other basic resources dwindle, so does the willingness…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Fresh Food Fuels Change

    An innovative pilot evaluation People are food insecure when they do not have access to, or enough money to buy safe and nutritious food, preventing them from enjoying a healthy diet.  Food insecurity is a major concern for many low-income Winnipeg families.  Aboriginal and Newcomer refugee families are among the…

  • Fast Facts: What is a CETA, and why should we be worried about it?

    The Canadian Government is well down the road, with the European Union, towards negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).  They tell us that CETA will have everything that NAFTA has, plus more.  They say that like it’s a good thing.  But the more one looks at this Comprehensive…

  • September 2004: A New “Social Architecture” For Canada?

    Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon so popular in social policy circles, they are trying to develop a new “social architecture” for Canada. And, no, it has nothing to do with the recent election—although,…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Who Benefits from Caribou Decline

    Download 2.02 MB48 pages This report looks at the promised economic benefits of coal mining projects in northeastern British Columbia and concludes that the jobs, tax revenues and production activity estimates are wildly overstated, while pledges to protect vulnerable wildlife species have not been met. The woodland caribou—a distinct population called…

  • Fast Facts: A welcoming home for refugees – removing the stigma and increasing the support

    Refugees across Canada are facing a structural housing crisis.  Stagnant shelter allowances for the Government Assisted Refugees  eligible to receive them,  a federal retreat from social housing provision, and skyrocketing housing costs in numerous Canadian cities since the early 1990s, have all contributed to this.   The Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council…

  • #BoycottTims? It’s about time.

    Twitter was raging against Tim Hortons last Thursday. According to the Ottawa Sun, for much of the day the hottest trending topic in Canada was #BoycottTims. It’s about time, I thought to myself, these allegations have been in the news for at least a couple of years. Back in 2013,…

  • July 2004: The Case for Nuclear Disarmament

    U.S. pre-emptive strike policy could trigger new nuclear arms race [At the most recent (53rd) Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Halifax, Sir Joseph Rotblat, aged 94, the organization’s President Emeritus, delivered a speech on “The Nuclear Issue: Pugwash and the Bush Policies.” His incisive analysis drew a…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    L’AECG mènera à une hausse du coût des médicaments

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Ottawa—L’Accord économique et commercial global entre le Canada et l’Union européenne (AECG) mènera à une hausse significative du coût des médicaments selon une étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA). L’étude examine les dernières révélations concernant l’accord provisoire et…