Searching the Past for Policy Alternatives
Ways to a better future to be learned from "commons" past Author(s): Heather Menzies April 1, 2014 When Elinor Ostrom was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work restoring the credibility of the...
View ArticleEditorial: Endings and Beginnings
Author(s): Bruce Campbell April 1, 2014 This edition of the CCPA Monitor marks the end of an era. With this, his last issue, Ed Finn passes the torch to a new generation. Twenty years ago, almost to...
View ArticleFarewell
Editor of CCPA Monitor since its inception says good-bye Author(s): Ed Finn April 1, 2014 This is the last page 4 column I'll write as editor of the CCPA Monitor, so I suppose it's fitting that it...
View ArticleMonitored: The costs of liquor privatization
September 1, 2014 The Monitor turned 20 this May and to celebrate the milestone we’re introducing a new regular section. Monitored will delve into the archives, making connections between what we were...
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Safeguarding our Parliament
Author(s): Stuart Trew October 24, 2014 The following editorial will appear in the November issue of the Monitor. The CCPA's National Office is in downtown Ottawa, about ten blocks from Parliament...
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From Citizenfour to Citizensmany? The world needs more Snowdens.
Author(s): Andrew Clement December 1, 2014 The broad outlines of the story of Edward Snowden and his revelations of surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) will be familiar to anyone who...
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Captured life, compartmentalized ghosts: 75 years of the NFB
Author(s): Vitalyi Bulychev December 1, 2014 Seventy-five years ago the Government of Canada initiated a media project that was designed to identify, catalogue and disseminate notions of Canadian...
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And the first CCPA Social Justice Award goes to…
Author(s): Stuart Trew December 1, 2014 Mike McBane, photo by Stuart Trew, 2014 Fearless. Devoted. Unswerving. Kind. Reliable. Modest. Moral. No matter who I asked, the same words came up to describe...
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Hennessy’s Index: January 2015
Political Divides Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit:...
View ArticleHope Springs Municipal
How small towns are driving Canada's digital future Author(s): Cynthia Khoo Steve Anderson March 1, 2015 “If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself.” In a bold take on this adage, more...
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The Praxis Affair
There’s a reason we put limits on spying within Canada Author(s): Paul Weinberg March 1, 2015 This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security...
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Excerpt: Envisaging a People’s Senate
Author(s): Helen Forsey April 1, 2015 Photo credit: "Canadian Senate Chamber" © Saffron Blaze - Own work. Via Wikimedia Commons. With the Mike Duffy trial beginning this month, we can expect...
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FINTRAC: Canada’s invasive “Financial War Against Terror”
Author(s): Matthew Behrens April 1, 2015 Image credit: Report of the Auditor General of Canada, November 2004. A recent run-of-the-mill telemarketing call from one of Canada’s largest credit...
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Putting the critical (back) into makerspaces
Author(s): Laura Pinto May 4, 2015 Illustration by Amy Thompson Walk into Hackforge at the Windsor Public Library and you’ll find a shared space where people come together and make things. You’ll...
View ArticleSubmission to the Special Committee to Review the British Columbia Freedom of...
Author(s): Keith Reynolds January 18, 2016 Download422.66 KB19 pages Offices: BC Office Issue: Other
View ArticleCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives announces new Executive Director
April 14, 2016 OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Bleyer as its new Executive Director. “We are excited to welcome Peter to the...
View ArticleManitoba by the Numbers: Population
Author(s): Micah Zerbe December 1, 2016 The first in a series Population Indicators 1,303,900 Manitoba’s population estimated by Statistics Canada as of January 1, 2016.[1] 16,200 The amount the...
View ArticleRefugee Claimants Require Temporary and Permanent Supports in Manitoba
Author(s): Abdikheir Ahmed Hani Al-ubeady Ray Silvius April 6, 2017 We in Manitoba find ourselves in need of a serious discussion about how to coordinate services, including lodging, for the refugee...
View ArticleCCPA's Fourth Annual Telephone Town Hall
On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the CCPA held its fourth annual telephone town hall, which enabled us to engage in a live, interactive dialogue with almost 3,000 of our supporters from coast to coast, and...
View ArticleThe Monitor, May/June 2017
Views of Canada at 150 Edited by: Stuart Trew Jon Weier May 1, 2017 Download7.48 MB There is an important difference between celebration and commemoration. In considering Canada 150, the government...
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