The idea of a Green New Deal—a radical and comprehensive transformation of the economy to cut greenhouse gas emissions while tackling inequality—has been gaining steam as an organizing principle for the environmental and social justice movements. Yet there are many questions that GND advocates have yet to think through or agree on. Like how can we produce enough electricity to rapidly replace all fossil fuels? Will new, green jobs be good, unionized jobs that are accessible in the places where jobs are needed most? Crucially, how will we pay for it all?
Corporations and corporate power
Riot police detain demonstrators in Quito protesting Lenin Moreno's cancelation of fuel subsidies in early October. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia.
In this issue:
Celebrating excellence in research
The Canada Pension Plan is fuelling the climate crisis
Affordable non-market rental housing
Expanding the affordability conversation
When it comes to climate action, the public is ahead of our polictics
Inquiry into gig work needed in BC
2019 Rosenbluth lecture recap
BC government fossil fuel subsidy data finally made public
Our annual gala in pictures
Donor spotlight: Bob and Sue Evans
CMP Conference 2020
When the CCPA was founded 40 years ago, it was in direct opposition to a handful of right-wing, “free market” policy groups who, despite being on the political scene for only a few years, had become influential in the halls of government and the news media. From their earliest days, these think-tanks aimed to weaken public faith in government’s ability to do good in people’s lives.
Our Time at the September 27 Global Climate Strike (photo by Laura Cameron)
Photo by Hugo Morales, Wikimedia Commons
Illustration by Maura Doyle
The Monitor starts off 2020—the CCPA's 40th anniversary year—with a direct attack on the Trudeau government's contradictory climate plans and the close connections between public officials and the fossil fuel sector. Will minority status and a rising Green New Deal movement change the government's course, or will it be just more business as usual?
Illustration by Remie Geoffroi
The "Beyond Neoliberalism" workshop in Ottawa on October 30, 2019 was co-organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Trade Justice Network and Institute for Policy Studies, with support from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung-New York.