Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) (Nelson House, MB), has embarked on a comprehensive program of economic development that addresses employment, training, healing from trauma, infrastructure development, and energy self-reliance. The First Nation is vitally concerned with nurturing young people, and is now interested in sharing its learning with other First Nations communities. NCN's development initiative is reflective of a convergence, or self-reliance approach to community economic development (ie.
Environment and sustainability
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)
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
With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.
REGINA—With climate and energy issues dominating much of the political debate, the question of how and what students learn about these issues in our public schools has become an increasingly contentious issue. This is especially the case in Western Canada, where recent comments by conservative politicians and pundits like Alberta Education minister Adriana LaGrange and Danielle Smith try to characterize the public-school curriculum as biased and even outright hostile to the oil and gas industry.
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.