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  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: City of Winnipeg should study benefits of in-house waste collection

    This fall Winnipeg City Council will determine the future of waste and recycling collection in our city.  Current contracts with Emterra Environmental and Progressive Waste Services will expire in 2017.  At least eight private companies have expressed interest in putting forward a proposal, and it will be up to council…

  • A Key Neglected Tool For Economic Recovery

    A different and improved money system is urgently needed An improved money system could provide governments in Canada and elsewhere with abundant funding, not only to enable us to pull out of the current recession, but also to meet the whole range of social needs that confront us — from…

  • Modi and the criminalization of Indian politics

    The election of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister in May, with strong backing from the country’s capitalist class, placed a mass murderer at the head of the world’s largest democracy. It was a shocking and unprecedented development whose consequences for India’s political and economic future are ominous. A history…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)
    Seniors Care

    Without Foundation

    How Medicare is Undermined by Gaps and Privatization in Community and Continuing Care The Community and Continuing Care sector is fundamental to B.C.’s entire health care system. The sector’s significance can be traced to the 1991 Seaton Commission, which proposed a “closer to home” theme for health care restructuring. The…

  • A Tale of Two Crises

    Climate crisis far more threatening than economic crisis Most of us have become preoccupied with the deepening economic slump that has spread like a pandemic across the globe. Whether it can be controlled before morphing into a full-blown depression is the question preying on our minds. This concern is understandable,…

  • Protecting Canada’s world-class grain system

    Well-functioning regulatory systems tend to be invisible, until tragedy occurs. It is only after someone dies from drinking contaminated water or eating tainted food, a bank fails or a highway overpass collapses that the general public realizes that something is wrong. Citizens rightly expect their governments to protect them and…

  • Introduction to Quebec Education in the Context of Globalization

    Education for the World, Education for All This is the introductory article of the CCPA ‘Our Schools/Our Selves’ publication: Education for the World, Education for All: Education in the Context of Globalization edited by Jocelyn Berthelot. Click here to access the publication page. Introduction Globalization is still a hot topic.…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Why workers should unite against Canada’s next-generation trade deals

    (This article was first published by Rabble.ca as part of the Up! Canadian Labour Rising series.) The Harper government has made new trade and investment agreements a cornerstone of its Economic Action Plan. Until recently, this has meant signing NAFTA-like treaties, most of which were started by the previous Liberal government.…

  • Low income leads to poorer mental health

    Statistics Canada recently published an interesting study on the relationship between low income and poor mental health. The paper, titled “Income and Psychological Distress: the Role of the Social Environment,” provides yet another reason for us to invest in a bold poverty-reduction plan. A large body of research has focused…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2008

    Breaking the Iron Cage: Resistance to the Schooling of Global Capitalism When we published the first of what we are beginning to call our “Iron Cage” series on the schooling of global capitalism, we were especially conscious of how the intensity of the privatization/cutback thrust of neo-liberal ministries of education…

  • Gender pay gap shadows women all along income ladder: study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – The average pay gap between men and women stands at 29.4 per cent in Ontario — a gap that shadows women every step of the way up the income ladder, says a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’…

  • Septmeber 2008: Tips for consultants

    Here’s how to fool most of the people most of the time With an alarmed public increasingly holding government and industry to account for a multitude of environmental and social outrages, the powers that be are scrambling to find ways to keep the status quo while appearing to respond. One…