CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 24 February 2021

Moreover, the movement reinforces the longstanding struggles of local organizations such as the BC Black History Awareness Society and the Hogan’s Alley Society to infl uence the BC government to …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 4 February 2021

But a grounded population, restricted R3B 1Z7 the chronic lack of preparedness, slow movement resulting in the slowing of the responses and a legacy of austerity has transmission of the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 29 December 2020

be further from the truth, there is no This meant that investors stood to make a avoiding the fact that: few things please tidy profit on their purchase—made even the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 21 December 2020

By mid-October, rapidly escalating case counts and test-positivity rates led the The cost of providing adequate space to provincial government to announce many students turned out to be 50%- sweeping …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 16 December 2020

Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA December 16, 2020 Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher Covid-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans Previously published in the Winnipeg …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 7 December 2020

Least likely to have the financial means to withstand this crisis, they are experiencing the slowest return to work, greatest caregiving challenges and most severe secondary impacts, including increased levels …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 19 October 2020

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] The …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 20 May 2020

Intersectional, evidenced-based and green policy solutions The day the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic, CCPA-NS and the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers released the social policy …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 21 April 2020

This is a big part of the This week the provincial response ap- reason the Government of Canada pears to be moving from lackluster to has come up with several …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 14 April 2020

Premier Pallister www.policyalternatives.ca/manitoba nationalist government of Prime Minister is recalling the Manitoba Legislature Narendra Modi announced laws that tomorrow for an extraordinary one-day blogsession to pass emergency legislation www.policyfix.cawould make …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 25 March 2020

Who knew that childcare would Manitoba provides more operational punch through as a key funding to childcare services than most priority in a global pandemic? provinces, but centres are nevertheless …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 30 January 2020

Although chains did not control the 8 ASSISTED LIVING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: TRENDS IN ACCESS, AFFORDABILITY AND OWNERSHIP majority of total assisted living and long-term care units in 2016, they …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 8 October 2019

The interviews were conducted in be properly communicated to residents in or- order to generate ideas about the potential ben- der to highlight the problems associated with efits and consequences …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 22 August 2019

legislature, in front of dozens of shoes For example, a single parent saw their piled up the front steps of the Manitoba benefits increase by $236, and a single legislature, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 23 April 2019

The key enforcement bodies for provincial workplace rights, the Employment Standards Branch of the Ministry of Labour and the Labour Relations Board have been underfunded to a point where they …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 11 March 2019

The ability to keep that the police killing of Machuar one’s life while in crisis is a courtesy and a Madut, 43 year old father of three, privilege of whiteness, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 1 November 2018

The accumulation dynamics of the Big Five must be examined in the context of the commodity cycles that mark the development of extractive capital. [...] Suncor alone spent $10 billion …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 23 January 2018

Second, the original proponent of the So how is it that this scenario seems destined reactor decommissioning was Atomic to unfold – soon – and there is scarcely a Energy …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 30 August 2017

Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA Aug 30, 2017 Cutting taxes is not the answer Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 9, 2017 Last week …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 5 April 2017

labour and trade unions has to take place in the Nevertheless, as non-Indigenous settlers in- context of the historical experience of coloni- creasingly populated all parts of the country, alism, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 27 March 2017

By understanding documenting the improved outcomes for refugee the unique needs of refugee parents and the con- students when their parents are involved in their texts in which they live, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 15 November 2016

Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA November 16, 2016 Community looking for action plan from province on poverty When Lieutenant Governor Janice Community organizations have Filmon delivers …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 12 October 2016

The result: a greater number of last autumn? affordable units in a greater number We believe the overall response from of neighbourhoods, with the better Canadians and Manitobans during the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 5 October 2016

This basic identity tells us that the source of national income (Y) is, necessarily, the sum of expenditure by the household sector (C), the busi- ness sector (I), the public …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 17 May 2016

has the highest number of on-reserve First Nations children in poverty in the country Child poverty rates in Manitoba at at 76 per cent and the highest indigenous 76 per …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 10 March 2016

been that “the best social program is a job.” The arrival of many vulnerable but resilient This well-worn phrase, around since the 1970s newcomers in the past months has brought …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 24 February 2016

page 2 The loss of the following four acclaimed The federal government’s Prairie Farm agricultural programs will also have long Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) lasting, negative results for communities, started in …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 6 January 2015

Further investigate the viability and effectiveness of different funding models for delivering team-based primary care and prepare a report for the Legislature reviewing the following Canadian and US examples: The …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 12 September 2014

Microsoft Word - Ivanova_LTAForum-July2014_140909_II-LB.docx Why teachers are still striking SPEECH TO THE LANGLEY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION’S PUBLIC FORUM ON EDUCATION By Iglika Ivanova Iglika Ivanova is an economist and the Public …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 18 February 2014

One of the many causes (and effects) of poverty is that the exclusive and The article “Broken Childhoods” in the profit-driven housing market, results in Winnipeg Free Press, February 8, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 26 September 2013

BC Hydro was told to rush ahead with those While the government looked to BC Hydro projects despite the lack of well-developed busi- management and even the NDP administration ness …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 18 September 2013

The new Despite the gaps in the data, what the data dealt with housing and income of 2011 NHS does tell us is that we need Canadians. [...] Unfortunately, with …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 8 January 2013

Il faudrait ac- corder une priorité beaucoup plus importante à la protection de la capacité du Can- ada de réglementer les pêches à des fins de conservation et de veiller …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 29 August 2012

CCPA-BC_Carbon-tax-review-submission Building a Fair and Effective Carbon Tax to Meet BC’s Greenhouse Gas Targets Marc Lee, Co- ‐Director, Climate Justice Project Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Submission to the BC …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 18 July 2012

Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA JULY 18, 2012 DIDG Licensed: Little Saskatchewan River Unprotected On the day the Fast Facts titled Will River downstream of the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 24 January 2012

What it will would follow, and the Truth and Reconciliation do is needlessly increase the number of people in Commission was seen to be a first step in the prison, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 8 November 2011

the government’s reluctance to discuss the potential for massive increases in water and hydro power usage by the shale gas industry is troubling to say the least, given the enormous …


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 9 August 2011

downturn in the US housing market, efforts Predictably, given the downturn in the US housing market, efforts have been made by BC’s have been made by BC’s forest companies and …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 26 April 2011

The greater the social benefits, the greater ing the concerning trends in the sector where in should be the public investment. [...] 12 caNadiaN ceNtre for policy alterNatives–Nova scotia The …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 28 March 2011

In fact, the deficits were nomic growth also benefited most from the tax cuts due to government policies: high interest rates and and, not co-incidentally, had the discretionary incomes cuts …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 4 February 2011

While violence in the ‘hood, you have to change the concerns about street gangs, crime, and violence ‘hood.” You have to change the conditions out in Winnipeg’s inner-city continue to …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 3 September 2010

La politique du CEPMB constitue donc un Scénario 4 échec total puisqu’elle oblige les Canadiens à Assurance-médicaments universelle et abro- dépenser 1 530 millions de dollars de plus que les …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 17 August 2010

are mandated to act in society’s best interest, and The fact is that every time any one of us our best interest is not served by blind adherence spends money, …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 16 June 2010

Many track record of serving the Aboriginal children and children who fell victim to the infamous ‘60’s families who are vastly overrepresented in the child scoop’ tell stories of lost …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 18 May 2010

May 17, 2010 The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba What we know about health inequity in Manitoba and what we can do about it Why are some people, and …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 10 September 2009

The point is that they and their street gang are a product of the deep and per- sistent poverty and racism of the North End, and all of its consequences—addic- …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 6 May 2009

to regulate water levels on the Assiniboine were The idea for the Floodway originated with completed: the Portage Diversion in 1970 at a Duff Roblin in the aftermath of the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 5 December 2008

The two main issues are the creation of the This is different than traditional infrastructure arm’s length corporation and the involvement of procurement where the city hires the private the …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 7 August 2008

acknowLedgements The authors wish to thank the staff of the Climate Modelling Laboratory in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, and in particular Dr. …


CCPA: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Ontario Office · 15 July 2008

that given the severity of the subprime crisis, new However, in the current round of negotiations the regulations will have to be imposed on the financial bargaining requests specifically related …