Work Life : Today’s coders, tomorrow’s precariat?
Even tech wages have stagnated since the 1990s. Author(s): Lynne Fernandez March 1, 2018 Despite being better educated than previous generations, there are fewer decent jobs for younger workers, even...
View ArticleTime for a course correction in Ontario school funding: report
March 26, 2018 TORONTO – Teachers and education workers are rallying behind a new blueprint to fix Ontario’s 20-year-old education funding formula and they’re calling on all parties to commit to a...
View ArticleCourse Correction
A Blueprint to Fix Ontario’s Education Funding Formula Author(s): Hugh Mackenzie March 26, 2018 Download386.28 KB17 pages Twenty years after the Mike Harris Conservative government implemented its...
View ArticleThe Monitor, May/June 2018
Two Worlds Collide May 1, 2018 Download11.22 MB Ontarians heading to the polls on June 7 face a stark choice between two visions of government and two styles of governing. The choice they make could...
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Lessons in precarity
New research is uncovering what it means to work insecurely in today’s economy—and how a corporate just-in-time mentality at Ontario campuses is transforming education. Author(s): Erika Shaker May 1,...
View ArticleRising Tuition
Implications for Access and Career Choice for Manitoba Students Author(s): Jesse Hajer Zac Saltis May 16, 2018 Download730.17 KB26 pages Governments in Canada have often turned to investments in...
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Moving to the right
Extremist groups are larger, bolder in their online and offline activism, and there are more of them. Author(s): Barbara Perry July 1, 2018 The white nationalist rallies that have peppered the...
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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 ArticleThe Monitor, September/October 2018
Fragile Recovery September 1, 2018 Download9.57 MB A decade after the worst financial crash since the Great Depression, a fragile recovery is obscuring threats—some new, some as old as capitalism—to...
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 ArticleContract U
Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities Author(s): Erika Shaker Chandra Pasma November 1, 2018 Download825.99 KB56 pages Canadian universities are relying heavily on...
View ArticleUniversitaires précaires
Les nominations d’enseignants contractuels, la tendance dans les universités canadiennes Author(s): Erika Shaker Chandra Pasma November 1, 2018 Download1.54 MB60 pages Les universités canadiennes...
View ArticleLa majorité des nominations d’enseignants universitaires au Canada sont...
November 1, 2018 OTTAWA – Selon une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives, les universités canadiennes dépendent énormément des enseignants précaires sur...
View ArticleContract jobs now account for majority of university faculty appointments in...
November 1, 2018 New study examines reliance on precarious jobs on university campuses; Ontario, Quebec and B.C. have contract faculty rates above national average. OTTAWA—Canadian universities are...
View Article"Unappreciated and underpaid"
Early Childhood Educators in Nova Scotia Author(s): Christine Saulnier Lesley Frank January 30, 2019 Download645.38 KB55 pages This report provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood...
View ArticleEarly Childhood Educators in Nova Scotia feeling “unappreciated and...
January 30, 2019 Halifax—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today that provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE)...
View ArticleThe Monitor, March/April 2019
Direct Action and the Strike March 1, 2019 Download6.5 MB This May, Canada marks the 100th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike, when tens of thousands of people walked off their jobs in...
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Direct action gets the goods!
Workers, strikes and political power Author(s): Graphic History Collective March 1, 2019 For six weeks in May and June 1919, approximately 35,000 workers in the Prairie city of Winnipeg walked off...
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Frontlines of the class
We all win when teachers strike, but parents, children and communities need to see themselves in the struggle Author(s): Erika Shaker March 1, 2019 Photo by Spencer Tweedy (Flickr Creative Commons)...
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Striking for survival
The right to strike in Canada is under attack. Back-to-work legislation has become commonplace. In order to defeat these threats, workers and unions should seize upon the strike, both legal and...
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