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Work Life: Gabriel Bako reviews Loreto’s latest book
A review of From Demonized to Organized: Building the new Union Movement by Nora Loreto This new book published by CCPA National provides a timely analysis of unions and neoliberalism….
Work Life: The Living Wage
An idea whose time has come Minimum-wage workers are not just teenagers working at fast-food restaurants after school. According to the Manitoba Federation of Labour, 55 per cent of minimum…
Infographic: Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013
Our infographic, based on the Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013, takes a revealing look at child and family poverty across Nova Scotia. (Click the image to enlarge)…
The Gap Between the Rich and the Rest of Us? We Can Close It.
Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA’s growing gap team created a short primer on income inequality that includes…
Upstream thinking, healthy society and reviving Canadian democracy
Social factors play a significant role in determining whether we will be healthy or ill. Our health care is but one element of what makes the biggest difference in health…
What Difference Would $14/hr Make?
Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen for three years. Currently the Ontario government is reviewing how to set and regularly increase the minimum wage. This infographic compares the status quo…
Work Life: The Canada Jobs Grant
Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion There are now many examples of policies introduced by the federal government that will have significant implications for Indigenous sovereignty, preservation of language and culture, environmental protection…
Hennessy’s Index: November 2013
Wal-Mart or Costco? Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index…
Work Life: Academic Freedom
Ivory tower privilege or public interest? The University of Manitoba narrowly averted its third faculty strike in eighteen years in late October, a strike that would have disrupted the lives…
Infographic: An Education in Inflation
Cost of learning vs. cost of living? The cost of a university education in Canada has risen dramatically since the 90s. Has everything else? Share our infographics and find out…
Work Life: For the Care We All Deserve
Building Better Long-Term Care in Manitoba The long-term care (LTC) sector in Manitoba is facing serious challenges. Manitoba, like the rest of Canada, is faced with an aging population, increasing…
A windfall for BC’s five biggest forest companies?
Shortly before the May election, the provincial government withdrew legislation that could have handed de facto control of publicly owned forestlands to a handful of forest companies. The contentious sections…
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