Menu
Our Schools / Our Selves
Our publications are available to all at no cost. Please support the CCPA and help make important research and ideas available to everyone. Make a donation today.
Connect the dots: School boards, democracy, and human rights
On a gray day last September, I attended a counter-protest at the Grand Parade in Halifax. I was there as part of “Education Saves Lives”…
From battleground to common ground
In the neverending right-wing-led campaigns against social progress, public schools are frequently targeted. And there’s a reason: while battered and underfunded, these institutions are still…
Whack-a-moles and hydra: Searching for a new privatization metaphor in education
Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. (Trans. by Massumi, B.)., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Kovach, M. (2021). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations,…
School grounds turned battlegrounds: War, conflict and peace education
Months after the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas fighters on Israelis, and the ensuing and ongoing bombardment of Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces that…
Will Saskatchewan Fund the Future of its Universities?
It won’t surprise anybody that reads OS/OS that the costs of a university education is increasingly being transferred from governments on to the backs of…
Despite the overblown AI hype, we’re not ready for what comes next
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022 it sparked a frenzy of hype and panic about the capabilities of generative artificial…
Leaps and bounds
Understanding the Carleton University Contract Instructors and Teaching Assistants’ strike (spring 2023)
Promises and perils of public-private partnerships
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible.
Occupational mental health: Wellness apps won’t cut it
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible.
“Getting it done” Ontario’s agenda for college education
Faculty morale plummeted partly due to the adoption of a managerial model that resisted academic freedom and administration/faculty co-determination and partly because of a lack…
Shapeshifting: P3s in Manitoba
Five schools for the price of four—this is the deal the Pallister government got when it abandoned the plan to build schools through a Public-Private-Partnership…
Monitoring the situation
CCPA materials illuminate lessons on inequality
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates