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Founded in 1994, the Monitor is the CCPA’s quarterly policy and current affairs magazine, covering issues of critical importance to the related goals of social, economic and environmental justice.
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The Monitor, July/August 2020
How to End Canada’s Long-term Care Crisis Download 5.27 MB The summer issue of the Monitor features two previously published reports on the crisis in Canada’s nursing…
The Monitor, May/June 2020
Putting Housing Poverty on Notice Download 5.37 MB In our first issue following the outbreak of COVD-19 in Canada, Monitor contributors assess the federal and…
The Monitor, Mar/Apr 2020
Green New Deal, meet the Alternative Federal Budget Download 4.58 MB The idea of a Green New Deal—a radical and comprehensive transformation of the economy…
The Monitor, Jan/Feb 2020
New government, same climate emergency Download 8.99 MB The Monitor starts off 2020—the CCPA’s 40th anniversary year—with a direct attack on the Trudeau government’s contradictory…
The Monitor, November/December 2019
Tax Fairness Now! Download 4.78 MB Taxes are the foundation of a healthy democracy. They fund the public services we depend on every day: roads,…
The Monitor, Sept/Oct 2019
Election 2019: Thinking Bigger, Demanding Better Download 6.52 MB The pollster Nik Nanos claimed in June that climate change would be “one of the defining…
The Monitor, July/August 2019
Conservatism, populism and crisis Download 6.97 MB Canada is addicted to oil. Like all addictions, ours is debilitating. It has erased the line between state…
The Monitor, May/June 2019
The Surveillance Economy Download 4.51 MB Google (Alphabet), Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. They are among the world’s most valuable and most trusted companies, but increasingly…
The Monitor, March/April 2019
Direct Action and the Strike Download 6.5 MB This May, Canada marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, when tens of thousands of…
The Monitor, January/February 2019
The Right to the City Download 7.27 MB Ten years ago the political geographer David Harvey wrote, “The freedom to make and remake our cities…
The Monitor, January/February 2018
Climbing up and kicking down Download 8.92 MB Canada’s top CEOs are breaking pay records, yet they are some of the first people to oppose…
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