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Mapping Political Influence
Political donations and lobbying by the fossil fuel industry in BC Download 3.91 MB32 pages This study examines the political reach of the fossil fuel industry…
The Monitor, March/April 2017
The Corporate Mapping Project Download 7.56 MB This issue of the Monitor features a number of articles and new research coming out of the Corporate…
Prairie Update: Doing Austerity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
In the Fall 2016 Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)Saskatchewan’s Simon Enoch penned Getting to Know Brad, introducing Canada’s most popular premier – Brad…
Work Life: 900 Manitoba Hydro Workers Thrown Off Deck
The news that Manitoba Hydro will shed 900 employees hit the community like a tonne of bricks. The new government said cutbacks were coming, but…
Ontario job watch: 2016 ends with a whimper
Canada may have ended 2016 with a surprising spurt in job growth last December, but Ontario was not so lucky.Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey ushered…
CEO pay sets new record: study
TORONTO – Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs have set a new record: their total compensation in 2015 hit a new high at $9.5 million, on…
Throwing Money at the Problem
10 Years of Executive Compensation Download 938.19 KB28 pages The CCPA has been tracking CEO pay in Canada for 10 years, and in that time…
Infographic: Throwing Money at the Problem
CEO Pay in Canada By 11:47am today, just before most Canadians are starting their lunch break on the first official work day of the year,…
The year as we saw it: 10 charts that defined Ontario in 2016
The experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office have been tracking economic developments in Ontario throughout the year. Some problems persist: the…
Work Life: Time to give back to Manitoba’s North
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 6, 2016 Those of us who were hoping that the Throne Speech would have details about a…
SaskNotes: The Futility of Austerity
Lessons for Saskatchewan Download 369.17 KB7 pages The instinct of governments across the political spectrum when faced with economic contraction has been to cut public…
Federal Kinder Morgan decision short-sighted
Fossil fuel interests put before those of public, First Nations Vancouver – Today’s federal government decision to approve the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline expansion while…
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