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By: Andrew Stevens | First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on May 3, 2013: Sweeping changes to Saskatchewan’s labour relations and employment standards legislation are on the verge of being passed. Bill 85, the Saskatchewan Employment Act, will dramatically transform the laws governing trade unions and industrial relations in the province. The [...] The post Saskatchewan: A beachhead of labour law reform? appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Andrew Stevens | First published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on May 3, 2013: Sweeping changes to Saskatchewan’s labour relations and employment standards legislation are on the verge of being passed. Bill 85, the Saskatchewan Employment Act, will dramatically transform the laws governing trade unions and industrial relations in the province. The [...] The post Saskatchewan: A beachhead of labour law reform? appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) argues that, without change in public policy, it’ll take Canada 228 years to close its yawning gender gap. The study, titled Closing Canada’s Gender Gap, examined Canada’s progress in closing the gap between men and women over the [...] The post Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years, says study appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. A shareholder revolt at struggling Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold producer, will hopefully lead to protests that will encourage the Canadian government and business to introduce limits on out-of-control executive pay. The public just learned that Barrick paid an enormous signing bonus of $11.9-million to high-flying international executive John Thornton, its new co-chair, last year. His total compensation for 2012 was a whopping $17-million. (Read more…) She Fixes So Many Problems By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: The Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker (NISW) is one of the programs established by the Province of Manitoba to help newcomers adjust to life in Canada. The program is funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Manitoba Immigration and Multiculturalism, [...] The post The Impacts of the Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker In Canada appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wilderness Committee calls for a radical rethink of British Columbia’s waste management policies. It argues that recycling can’t solve the province’s pollution problems and calls for a postconsumerist model of zero waste. While acknowledging [...] The post British Columbia study advocates postconsumerist model of zero waste appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Press Release: OTTAWA – Canada’s economy is experiencing a “carbon bubble” that could have significant consequences for Canada’s financial markets and pension funds, according to a new study released March 26 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Between two-thirds and four-fifths of known [...] The post Fossil fuel divestment necessary to avoid “carbon bubble”, says study appeared first on The Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis. By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Press Release: St. John’s, NL – At a time when global austerity measures are causing profound hardship among populations and are proving harmful to their economies, a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) says public spending cuts could deeply damage Newfoundland and Labrador’s [...] The post Avoid Austerity: Keep Newfoundland and Labrador’s economy strong, says report appeared first on The Canadian Progressive. Press Release | Posted Mar 18, 2013 Ontario’s experiment with austerity in 2012 is contributing to an economic slowdown that demands a different course of action in 2013, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office (CCPA-Ontario). The report, by CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy and CAW economist Jim [...] By: Council of Canadians (Press Release) With the next federal budget fast approaching, the 2013 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB), Doing Better Together, released today, warns that the “Harper government’s cuts to the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) and other critical environmental programs will hinder the ability to develop freshwater policies and respond to threats to [...] By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Jan. 26, 2013: A new study by two economists from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), an independent left-leaning policy research institute, says Canada’s tax system is in dire need of “fairness” reform. Marc Lee and Iglika Ivanova argue that “ad-hoc tax changes over the last two decades have seriously weakened the redistributive role READ MORE By Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Press Release) | Feb. 21, 2013: OTTAWA — A failure to carefully regulate the Canadian bitumen industry is putting Canada on a dangerous economic and environmental trajectory, says a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Polaris Institute. The study’s original, integrated analysis READ MORE 
 Advocacy, Alberta, bitumen, Breaking News, Business News, Canada, canadian centre for policy alternatives, Canadian economy, Carbon Trap, economy, energy policy, environment, Featured, Government, Guest Blog, oil, Oil Depdence, Oilsands Report, Press release, Progressive Organizations, Research And Study, Sustainability, Tar Sands The Canadian Progressive: Harper Government should consider options for Sea King replacement: ReportBy Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Feb. 11, 2013: OTTAWA – A major, deep-reaching report about the maritime helicopter procurement has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “The worst procurement in the history of Canada”: Solving the maritime helicopter crisis (PDF) was written by University of British Columbia political READ MORE
Advocacy, Canada, canadian centre for policy alternatives, Canadian Forces, Canadian Navy, Featured, Guest Blog, Harper government, International Relations, Maritime Helicopter Project, Paul Martin, Press release, Research And Study, Rideau Institute, Sea King Helicopter, think tanks, war and peace by Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives | Jan. 24, 2013: OTTAWA— Underinvestment in infrastructure is not a crisis but a chronic problem in Canada, says a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study, by economist and CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie, reveals the extent of underinvestment in infrastructure over the READ MORE by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 21, 2013: Norway’s experience with Big Oil offers lessons for Idle No More and other progressive movements determined to stop Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives from turning Canada into a petro-state. Earlier, I blogged about a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which compares the Canada and Alberta READ MORE
#idlenomore, Alberta, BIG IDEAS, big oil, Bill C-45, Business News, Canada, canadian centre for policy alternatives, Chief Theresa Spence, Civil Disobedience, Conservatives, environment, Featured, First Nations, Government, HARPER V. CANADA, Idle No More, inequality, national security, Norway, oil wealth, Petro-state, progressive Canadians, stephen harper, Tar Sands, World News by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Jan 17, 2013: OTTAWA—A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the Canada and Alberta experience to that of Norway, another major petroleum producing and exporting country, and finds they have taken very different paths and with very different outcomes. “Norway’s experience shows that there READ MORE by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the earnings of women in BC to those in the rest of Canada. The report was authored by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, an economist and SFU Professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Among the key READ MORE The Canadian political elite really needs to be much more consistent in their propaganda. They like to whip up antipathy towards public sector workers suggesting they are overpaid and pampered, but they may have overlooked that strategy recently in the … Continue reading → by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | November 27, 2012 A new CCPA-NS report released today makes projections for federal public sector job loss in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of its impact in the region. CCPA-NS pu… . . . → Read More: Canadian Progressive: Atlantic Canada to suffer disproportionately from federal austerity: Report In Alberta, this kid would be buying Jägermeister and Red Bull. Below: The Parkland study; Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. In one regard, Alberta’s 1993 experiment in liquor store privatization has been a resounding success. To wit: almost everyone thinks it worked. I was reminded of this reality earlier this week when the Parkland Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released their study of liquor store privatization – Impaired Judgment, The Economic and Social Consequences of Liquor Privatization in Western Canada – which illustrates how the principal argument advanced for the policy, that booze will cost less, holds . . . → Read More: Alberta Diary: You can’t overlook convenient hours if you hope to preserve the obvious benefits of public liquor sales The Remaining Light-A film about how we care for seniors by CCPA and Hospital Employees Union This film is both moving and numbing in that it shows the departure from really caring for seniors by our provincial government. It does not have to be this way. It can be improved significantly and often at less cost than our present system which as the film shows as suffered dramatically since 2001. I urge you to take the time to see a glimpse of how we care for seniors and why we need to return to a level of care that once What follows is my submission to BC’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. Any other British Columbians interested in influencing next year’s budget have until October 18 to do so by clicking here. Taxation has three major purposes: raising government revenue, redistributing wealth, and discouraging “bads.” The first is the most obvious. Taxes — “the price we pay for civilization,” in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. — pay for such crucially important public goods as health care, education, welfare, parks, and transportation infrastructure. However, cuts that have taken place for more than a decade here . . . → Read More: Song of the Watermelon: The Point of Taxes In February we attended a forum hosted by the Centre for Policy Alternatives looking at the manufactured crisis the Liberals are using to bring in a far-reaching austerity agenda. At the time, we noted that Finance Minister Dwight Duncan has … Continue reading → Quebec Students Protest Started Over Tuition Hikes It was University Students in Quebec who raised the profile of challenges facing students seeking post secondary education. Tuition hikes ignited the protests but costs for living accomodation, books, clothing and food combine to increase the overall burden. The protests grew, morphed into a much wider display of opposition and led to the former Premier Jean Charest calling an election. Turns out he misread the depth of voter disatisfaction as he lost the election and his own seat in Sherbrooke as well. It is time to rethink education and commit to investing in . . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Quebec Students Were Right! Students Debts Are Crippling! Here in Quebec, amidst the nightly demonstrations against the tuition increases and Bill 78, the bill that gave the movement oxygen, we hear a constant drumbeat from media sources that the kids are “spoiled,” or have a sense of “entitlement,” and are perhaps communists. Seriously. It’s tiresome. Students protest in the downtown streets of Montreal against tuition hikes on May 16, 2012 (AFP Photo/Rogerio Barbosa) Erica Shaker of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has written a terrific piece about this “scapegoating” of the kids involved and begins by asking a question that should be the starting point for any (Read more…) |
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