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This submission highlights key findings from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives research and outlines our recommendations for the 2020 provincial budget.
Photo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the 2018-19 fiscal year. It can be very difficult for an organization to function without core funding which diminishes its capacity. The organization (formally known as the Manitoba League of the Physically Handicapped) has existed since 1974 as a consumer-based organization of people living with disabilities.
Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against FinancializationMax HaivenPluto Press/Between the Lines (September 2018)
The CCPA-BC sent this submission to the BC Government’s How We Vote consultation, which requests feedback on key elements of the upcoming referendum on electoral reform. Written submissions are being accepted until February 28, 2018.
OTTAWA—Following a panel’s recommendation to allow charities more freedom to speak out, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) welcomes the federal government’s decision to suspend the Canada Revenue Agency’s controversial political activities audit program.
But the CCPA still awaits closure on its own political audit. The CCPA was one of dozens of charitable organizations targeted by the previous federal government for a political audit.
After a long period of colonial subjugation, the 18th century witnessed the establishment of independent states in the Americas. Latin American revolutions and the fight for independence in the United States eradicated colonial power while developing various more or less atrophied forms of the republican state. In the case of Canada, however, history took a different turn. Unique in the Americas, the colonial state and monarchy imposed by the British Empire on Canadian territories at the turn of the 18th century was not overthrown.