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Model Sites for Rural Midwifery in Nova Scotia: Built to Fail?
On Monday morning, there is a rally planned to try and save the South Shore Community Midwives, one of Nova Scotia’s rural…
Media get it wrong on Bank of Canada minimum wage study
Over a million workers in Ontario just got a big raise thanks to tireless, bottom-up organizing, but to hear the media tell…
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…
Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking…
A Deficit Worth Worrying About: The Gendered And Racialized Wage Gap
I was really hoping the recent release of Census data would bring good news: wage gap closed! Racial discrimination gone! Equality achieved!…
Study reveals highest and lowest child care fees in Canadian cities in 2017
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) updates the…
Canada is still a rogue state on climate change
It has now been two years since world leaders created the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. At those meetings, the Canadian delegation…
Fast Facts: Contracting Out Enhanced Home Care Program
Among the many recent changes by the Pallister government to health care was a contract with two private companies to operate the…
What the Just? Transitioning to a low carbon, good jobs economy
For most working people, environmental concerns have historically been a bit like Harvey Dent—two faced. One face says that poisoned water supplies…
Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
In 2015 Patrick Brown won the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) on a promise of party renewal and provincial change, but…
Charting a path to $15/hour for all workers—and the road beyond
CCPA-BC Submission to the Fair Wages Commission Download 10.68 MB10 pages In this submission to the BC Fair Wages Commission, the CCPA-BC…
Long overdue: Taking a closer look at university library funding
As we continue to dig into university and college finances in Ontario, what becomes apparent is not only the change in revenue…