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  • BC’s health care system can only get stronger with the right investments: Budget 2018

    Provincial health spending as a share of our economy has been relatively steady in recent years, and is projected to fall from 7.8 per cent of GDP in 2009 to 7.4 per cent in 2019 according to the government’s September budget update. If, however, we want to tackle the opioid…

  • Why increasing government spending makes economic sense

    Author’s note: The latest BC government throne speech promised “to help solve big challenges – like inequality and climate change – with growth that is inclusive and sustainable.” CCPA-BC will closely analyze the upcoming BC Budget to determine whether the government’s intention is backed by the increased levels of public…

  • Federal economic and monetary updates demonstrate there’s lots of room to expand public services for working Canadians

    After many years of “serial disappointment” and concerns about secular stagnation, Canada’s economy is finally growing at a solid pace, as Finance Minister Morneau and the Bank of Canada Governor Poloz underlined in the recent Fall Economic Statement and Monetary Policy Report. This has led to higher revenues, lower deficits,…

  • Ten tax myths revisited: 20th Anniversary retrospective

    In October 1999, I wrote the report Ten Tax Myths. Any retrospective on this issue must examine the relationship between research and analysis and the question of political agency. We know that no matter how good the research and analysis, unless there is a change agent to use it, the…

  • April 2004: HEU workers' rights violated by Bill 37 that imposed massive wage rollbacks on 43,000 hospital and long-term health care workers. Photo Credit: HEU

    20 years later: How corporations took over Canada’s health care system

    Caring for Profit: How corporations are taking over Canada’s health care system was published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and New Star Books nearly 20 years ago, shortly after the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in…

  • Consumer rights and responsibilities in the age of climate change and big data

    I’ll be attending the Consumers 150 conference in Ottawa this week, which is co-organized by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Option consommateurs, Consumers Council of Canada and Union des consommateurs. The event is billed as a chance to analyze today’s high-profile consumer rights issues—national pharmacare, the sharing economy, climate change…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    High cost of austerity

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press June 23, 2023 After winning the 2016 provincial election, then-premier Brian Pallister moved Manitoba’s department of Indigenous and northern affairs under the municipal relations banner — suggesting a radical change in how the government viewed treaty rights, Indigenous rights, and working with First…

  • Paying a living wage key to Canada’s post-COVID economic recovery

    The cost of living in Canada is on the rise and for workers earning low wages, making ends meet continues to be a struggle. The living wage rates for cities and communities across the country have just been released and not surprisingly they are also on the rise. The 2021…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Alternative Federal Budget advances “Mission Critical” priorities for new parliament

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—With a new minority Parliament taking shape in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ (CCPA) Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) advances urgent policy priorities that would ensure a publicly led, inclusive pandemic recovery. “Now is not the time for penny pinching. It’s time to stay…

  • Large STAY HOME sign above closed Museum of Neoliberalism in Lewsiham. Shops and museums are closed during coronavirus covid-19 outbreak

    COVID-19 didn’t kill neoliberalism; we must do it ourselves

    Neoliberalism is a broad term used to describe a ruthless variant of economic thinking that weakens a country’s immune system, making its population vulnerable to poverty and other social malaise. Margaret Thatcher’s U.K. (1979–90) is widely known as patient zero, while Ronald Reagan (1981–89) was responsible for bringing the variant…

  • Economic insecurity touches seniors’ lives in profound ways

    In the spring of 2016, the CCPA’s Terra Poirier and photographer Caelie Frampton met with three local seniors to document their lived experience of poverty and inequality. The images and stories of these women paint a sobering picture of what life is like when the hardships of living with a…

  • The wrong question in the wrong forum

    It didn’t take very much time at the joint federal-provincial environmental hearing into Site C, which started this week in Fort St. John, to realize that it is not the best forum to address the central issue underlying BC Hydro’s proposal to develop the $8 to $9 billion hydro project.…