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Resetting Normal: Women, Decent Work, and Canada's Fractured Care Economy
Author(s): The Canadian Women’s Foundation, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ontario Nonprofit Network, Fay Faraday
Publisher: Canadian Women's Foundation
Publication Date: 2020
Resetting Normal is a series of reports on gender equality and the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. They explore risks to human rights exposed by the pandemic and propose new ways to build a gender-equal Canada in pandemic recovery efforts.
From Housing Market to Human Right: A View from Metro Vancouver
Author(s): Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2018
Introduction Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the federal government’s National Housing Strategy and the proposed human rights-based approach to housing. I live and work in Vancouver, BC where the housing crisis is arguably the most acute. My comments will thus reflect a Vancouver and BC perspective, and are based on research I have done on the housing system as an economist for the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternati...
Getting There: Alternative Federal Budget 2018 (Housing and Neighbourhoods Chapter)
Author(s): Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2018
The 2018 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) delivers a roadmap to where the country could be on the eve of the next federal election, if the government moves forward with bold action to deliver a progressive economic plan that leaves no one behind. If implemented, the 2018 Alternative Federal Budget: Getting There will reduce income inequality, lift close to a million people out of poverty, close unfair and expensive tax loopholes, and create 600,0...
Fact Sheets on the 2008 Federal Budget
Author(s): Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2008
Responsible leadership means taking a firm hand at the wheel to tackle the tough issues of our time: Climate change, the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us, stubborn poverty and homelessness, our cities’ crumbling infrastructure, support for working and vulnerable families — a plan to prepare Canada for an economic downturn.Budget 2008 does nothing significant to address climage change. It ignores poverty, homelessness, and child car...