Updates from the CCPA
Winnipeg's community-based organizations are standing on shakey ground and confused about how to proceed with current provincial governement measurements. Read the 2017 State of the Inner City...
January 3, 2018 |
Manitoba Office For the first time, this winter we are making Our Schools/Our Selves available in its entirety online. This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves focuses on a number of key issues that education workers,...
December 18, 2017 |
National Office In our submission to the BC Fair Wages Commission, the CCPA-BC highlighted the urgency for British Columbia to adopt a $15 minimum wage by March 2019. Read the submission.
BC’s current minimum wage...
November 22, 2017 |
BC Office CCPA-BC joins community, First Nation, environmental groups in call for public inquiry into fracking
Today the CCPA's BC Office joined with 16 other community, First Nation and environmental organizations to call for a full public inquiry into fracking in Britsh Columbia.
The call on the new BC...
November 5, 2017 |
BC Office In the Toronto Star, CCPA-Ontario senior economist Sheila Block digs into the latest Census release to reveal the persistent income gap between racialized people, recent immigrants, Indigenous people...
October 27, 2017 |
Ontario Office On September 21, Canada and the European Union announced that the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a controversial NAFTA-plus free trade deal initiated by the Harper government and...
October 17, 2017 |
National Office What does twelve years of community organizing look like for a North End Winnipeg neighbourhood? Jessica Leigh survey's those years with the Dufferin community from a community development lens. ...
October 12, 2017 |
Manitoba Office Ellen Smirl researched the barriers experienced by low-income Manitobans when faced with trying to replace lost, stolen, or never aquired idenfication forms. Read full report here.
October 10, 2017 |
Manitoba Office The all-party House of Commons trade committee is consulting Canadians on their priorities for bilateral and trilateral North American trade in light of the current renegotiation of NAFTA. In the...
October 6, 2017 |
National Office The Ontario government is consulting on ways to modernize the province’s fair wage policy, which sets standards for wages and working conditions for government contract workers such as building...
September 28, 2017 |
Ontario Office If you live in Ontario, you may have recently been selected to receive our 2017 grassroots poll on vital issues affecting the province. Your answers to these and other essential questions will help...
September 14, 2017 |
National Office, Ontario Office Today CCPC-BC senior economist Marc Lee submitted an analysis to the BC Utilities Commission in response to their consultation on the economics of the Site C dam. You can read it here.
In short, the...
August 31, 2017 |
BC Office Ontario is becoming more polarized as middle and working class families see their share of the income pie shrinking while upper middle and rich families take home even more.
New research from CCPA-...
August 15, 2017 |
Ontario Office Global Affairs Canada is consulting Canadians on their priorities for, and concerns about, the planned renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In CCPA’s submission to this...
July 19, 2017 |
National Office Five weeks ago the CCPA-BC began a letter to our supporters with this statement: “What an interesting and exciting moment in BC politics! For a bunch of policy nerds like us at the CCPA, it doesn’t...
July 4, 2017 |
BC Office