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A student perspective on campus cannabis policies
Author(s): Heather D'Alessio September 1, 2018 The beginning of fall semester this year coincides with the official start date of cannabis legalization (October 17). This presents academic...
View ArticleAlternative Federal Budget 2019
No Time to Lose Author(s): CCPA September 18, 2018 Download1.26 MB84 pages With the country facing significant and unpredictable headwinds going into another federal election year, the 2019...
View ArticleSharing the pharmacare wealth
A progressively funded universal drug plan could save families hundreds of dollars a year, says new report December 5, 2018 December 5, 2018 Ottawa — A federally funded universal national pharmacare...
View ArticleAssurance-médicaments et partage de la richesse
Selon un nouveau rapport, un régime universel d’assurance-médicaments à financement progressif permettrait aux familles d’économiser des centaines de dollars par année December 5, 2018 5 décembre 2018...
View ArticleA prescription for savings
Federal revenue options for pharmacare and their distributional impacts on households, businesses and governments Author(s): David Macdonald Toby Sanger December 5, 2018 Download1.11 MB45 pages...
View ArticleUne prescription d’économies
Options de recettes fédérales pour un régime national universel d’assurance-médicaments et leurs effets distributifs sur les ménages, les entreprises et les gouvernements Author(s): David Macdonald...
View ArticleWhy is Milk So Expensive in First Nations Communities?
Access to and Affordability of Milk in Northern Manitoba Author(s): Mengistu Wendimu Annette Aurélie Desmarais December 12, 2018 Download1.48 MB20 pages This study finds milk is significantly...
View ArticleFast Facts: The Deep Roots of the Meth Crisis
Author(s): Jim Silver December 19, 2018 First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Dec 19, 2018 Winnipeg’s meth crisis continues to skyrocket. I think a case can be made that in large part, the meth...
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The right to the city as a foundation for social justice
A view from the streets of Winnipeg Author(s): Lynne Fernandez Shauna MacKinnon January 1, 2019 The right to the city comes out of critical theory, a branch of intellectual thought originating in the...
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The right to safety in the city
The eruption of overdose prevention sites in Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Guelph, Montreal and beyond tells an extraordinary story of grassroots activists creating infrastructures of care...
View ArticleFast Facts: Valuing the Voice of People Living with Disabilities in Manitoba
Author(s): Carlos Sosa January 17, 2019 Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the...
View ArticleSaskatchewan's Failing Report Card on Child Care
February 1, 2019 Download765.97 KB16 pages Canada ranks very poorly among peer nations for overall quality and rates of access to regulated child care, with Saskatchewan ranking the lowest of all...
View ArticleSaskatchewan child care gets a failing grade: report
February 1, 2019 Regina — Canada ranks very poorly among peer nations for overall quality measures and rates of access to regulated child care, and Saskatchewan ranks the lowest of all Canadian...
View ArticleThe importance of community health centres in BC’s primary care reforms
What the research tells us Author(s): Andrew Longhurst Marcy Cohen March 1, 2019 Download281.3 KB9 pages As British Columbia moves to support a role for community health centres (CHCs) within a...
View ArticleFast Facts: Austerity is bad for your health
Author(s): Pete Hudson March 21, 2019 First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 23, 2019 as Three thousand patients in a bind. On March 2, a news release issued by the Winnipeg Regional Health...
View ArticleFast Facts: Valley of Despair in Manitoba Health Care
Author(s): Brianne Goertzen April 8, 2019 First published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 8, 2019 The overhaul of Manitoba’s health care system has been met with repeated calls to slow down from...
View Article“Bad news budget” slams the brakes hard on public services: CCPA
April 11, 2019 TORONTO—Today’s Ontario budget will do serious damage to the public services Ontarians depend on, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Ontario office (CCPA) says. “Cuts like...
View ArticleThe Monitor, May/June 2019
The Surveillance Economy May 1, 2019 Download4.51 MB Google (Alphabet), Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon. They are among the world's most valuable and most trusted companies, but increasingly the...
View ArticleFast Facts: Paging Dr. Peachey - Health care reform off the rails
Author(s): Brianne Goertzen May 16, 2019 First published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 16, 2019 Healthcare watchdogs are talking about the return Dr. David Peachey to Manitoba. The re-emergence of...
View ArticleInternational Regulatory Cooperation and the Public Good
How "good regulatory practices" in trade agreements erode protections for the environment, public health, workers and consumers Author(s): Stuart Trew May 22, 2019 Download5.57 MB44 pages This...
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