Search results for “site/human rights”

  • Prairie Commons in Crisis

    Beneficial Community Pasture Program killed by Bill C-38 With the widespread damage to environmental protection inflicted by the federal government’s omnibus Bill C-38, it was easy to miss the fate of more than a million acres of humble prairie grasslands. These grasslands provide habitat for endangered prairie species and provide…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Government polices part of story of BC’s declining median income

    The results of the 2006 Census on income were recently published and produced stark headlines about enormous wage declines in Canada over the past 25 years. The income gap between rich and poor is widening, immigrant incomes are plummeting and young people entering the labour market are earning less than…

  • Labour Matters

    Fast Facts: From the Throne to the Kitchen Table

    Are the priorities of the Manitoba government in line with Manitobans’ more broadly? This is the question asked last week by a diverse group of community volunteers, representing teachers, healthcare professionals and those concerned about climate change, poverty and income inequality.  They were comparing the vision presented in the recent…

  • The Age of Austerity

    Despite austerity’s failure, politicians still won’t scrap it We are living in the “Age of Austerity” – or at least so says David Cameron, the U.K.’s Prime Minister. He made this announcement in 2009 at the Conservative convention just before becoming Prime Minister. This meant, he explained, that he would…

  • Mural at First United Church, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Goh Iromoto.

    BC NDP-Green agreement offers historic opportunity for game-changing new policies

    What an interesting and exciting moment in BC politics! For a bunch of policy nerds like us at the CCPA, it doesn’t get much better than this. On Tuesday May 30, the BC NDP and BC Green Party released the terms of their agreement to cooperate and grant legislative confidence…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    Canada’s fossil fuel lobby influences policy and decisions for major federal government projects

    There’s no doubt that climate change and fossil fuel extraction were vote determining for significant sections of the population in the federal election. These issues dominated the federal leaders’ debates and since September we’ve seen hundreds of thousands across the country join student-led climate strikes demanding more robust climate action.…

  • The New Silk Road

    Canada joining the U.S. in exploiting Afghanistan’s resources Since George Bush declared the Global War on/of Terror on September 20, 2001, some influential Canadians have described Canadians’ sacrifice of tax-dollars and soldiers’ lives and bodies on the battlefronts in Afghanistan and beyond as an “investment.” The payoff promised for this…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada-China investment deal deserves greater public scrutiny

    The pending takeover of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen by the state-owned Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation is attracting a lot of attention.  There are legitimate questions regarding whether this foreign takeover is in the national interest or to the “net benefit” of Canada.  By contrast, the Canada-China Foreign…

  • Big “Fracking” Problem

    Natural gas industry’s “fracking” risks causing earthquakes At the end of this month (Feb. 28), Quebec’s public consultations body, the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l’environment (BAPE), is scheduled to release its report on potential environmental impacts of developing the province’s Utica Shale gas field – an area of 5,000…

  • Housing platforms and platitudes in the 2018 Vancouver election

    It should be no surprise that Vancouver’s growing housing affordability crisis is the top issue going into the election. All candidates are in favour of affordable housing, of course. Sorting out the chatter from concrete plans, however, can be difficult—not least because of the way Vancouver’s municipal politics has fractured…

  • Silencing the outriders, silencing democracy

    Since taking power federally in 2006, the Conservative government has undertaken a continuous attack on civil society organizations.  One of the government’s first actions was to cut support for women’s organizations that lobbied or did research on the status of women.  Environmental organizations have been accused of acting in the…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Tax increment financing and True North Square

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 20, 2018 On Thursday September 20, Winnipeg City Council will vote on a motion to clear the way for True North Square (TNS) to receive an $8 million subsidy through the City’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program. Council will be asked to…