Projects

From our flagship project, the Alternative Federal Budget, to national and province projects, the CCPA has got you covered

Deep dives into the issues of our time. With graphs and downloadable data.

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  • Beyond Recovery Data Dashboard

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Beyond Recovery is working to support and advance a gender-just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The project’s goals are to document and analyze women’s experiences, with a particular focus on marginalized women in hard-hit sectors, and to provide evidence-based policy solutions. This project has been funded in part by Women and Gender Equality Canada.

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  • Beyond Recovery Data Dashboard

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The CCPA has been coordinating the Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) since 1994 with the participation and support of researchers, activists and leadership from a broad spectrum of civil society organizations representing millions of Canadians. The AFB is a “what if” exercise. It demonstrates in a concrete and compelling way that better Canada is truly possible. 

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  • Alternative federal budget 2025

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This CCPA BC project aims to develop policy solutions that will enable B.C. to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change, in a way that is fair and that benefits all members of society. It is a partnership between the CCPA and the University of British Columbia.

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  • Submission from the CCPA to Natural Resources Canada’s consultation on a people-centred just transition

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Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) is a research and public engagement initiative investigating precarious work and multi-dimensional precarity in British Columbia.

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  • Minimum wage increases aren’t even close to enough

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The Corporate Mapping Project is a collaborative research project between the University of Victoria, CCPA BC, CCPA SK and the Parkland Institute. It focuses on “mapping” how power and influence play out in the oil, gas and coal industries of BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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  • Getting to net-zero in Canada

more corporate mapping project

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  • BC Issues: Cuts to Continuing Care

more economic security project

Monitoring the privatization of public education – and resistance to it.

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  • Our Schools/Our Selves – Summer/Fall 2024

more education project

The Good Economy Project was created to propose an alternative economic vision for British Columbia—one that puts public investment, tax fairness and the creation of good, sustainable jobs at the core of economic policy-making.

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  • BC’s child care investments have major impact on 2019 living wage

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  • A tale of two pandemics: the rich and the rest of us

more Growing Gap

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  • New Analysis Finds 1 in 4 Manitobans Earns Less Than a Living Wage

more Labour Matters

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  • A bumpy ride

more Making Women Count

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  • Minosin Kikiwa – “A Good Home”: Indigenous Older Adults in Winnipeg

more Manitoba Research Alliance

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  • Doing Community Economic Development

more New Economy Initiative (MB)

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  • Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2023

more Nova Scotia Alternative Budget

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  • ‘Ontario Has Options’ for Budget 2019

more Ontario Alternative Budget

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  • Cost of living—especially for housing—fuels affordability crisis and Metro Vancouver’s increasing living wage

more Public Interest Research Project

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  • CCPA-BC Presentation to the Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel

more Resource Economics Project

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  • Caring for the Future

more economic security project

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  • Social Watch Report 2009: Making Finances Work

more Social Watch

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  • Towards Justice

more Think Upstream

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  • Trump crashes Canada’s Trans Pacific Partnership party

more Trade and Investment Research Project

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