Childcare
The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) is dedicated to promoting quality, publicly funded child care accessible to all.
The Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) focuses on research and policy resources, advancing a universal, high quality, publicly-funded, not-for-profit, inclusive system of early childhood education and care in Canada.
Post-Secondary Education
Alberta Colleges & Institutes Faculties Association (ACIFA) promotes the professional and economic well being of college and technical institute faculty in the interest of advancing the quality of post-secondary education in Alberta.
The Alberta College & Technical Institute Student Executive Council (ACTISEC) is a coalition of college and technical institute students' associations from across Alberta. ACTISEC represents 100,000 Alberta college and technical institute students at 14 institutions.
The Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) is a professional organization of faculty and faculty associations in Alberta universities. The objectives of the Confederation are to promote the quality of education in the province and to promote the well-being of Alberta universities and their academic staff.
The Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) represents the interests of students at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge to the government, stakeholders and the public.
The Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA) is the legally recognized bargaining agent for over 4,000 non-academic staff working on the University of Alberta campus.
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Seniors
Seniors United Now seeks to unite every individual Senior in Alberta under one umbrella organization so that we, the Seniors of Alberta, may speak with one voice on the issues that matter to us.
The Alberta Council on Aging is a province-wide charitable organization, comprised of individuals, organizations and agencies interested in issues and challenges related to Alberta's aging population.
The Alberta Retired Teachers' Association (ARTA) is a group organized to advocate for retired teachers on the issues that affect their well-being, including pensions and declining health care benefits. ARTA currently has over 9,000 members who are organized into 14 branches throughout Alberta.
The Senior’s Action and Liaison Team (SALT) is a group of activist seniors based in Edmonton who share a belief that the many social improvements they have seen over their lifetimes should continue rather than be eroded.
Continuing Care Watch is a citizen watch group that monitors conditions in long-term and continuing care facilities in Alberta.
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Democracy
Democracy Watch is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan citizen group advocating democratic reform, government accountability and corporate responsibility.
Womanspace Resource Centre is a community-based women's organization that carries out research and initiate policy changes at both the local and provincial level in order to improve the status and further the political, social and economic equality of women.
Privatization
P3 Watch provides research and resources on issues of Public-Private Partnerships in Canada.
The Other Competitive Advantage: this research booklet from the Alberta Federation of Labour demonstrates that public health care and public education give Alberta and Canada a clear competitive advantage over the United States and other countries who deliver these services privately. The book compares the economic costs and benefits of public services versus delivering those services privately. Five areas of public policy are examined: health care, education, income security, retirement pensions and WCB. (requires Abobe Reader)
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has tracked privatization and public-private partnership (P3) activity across the country, and has been a leading voice opposing privatization.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities conducted a review of P3 projects across Canada, and concluded that there is no meaningful evidence that P3s accomplish their goals of cost saving, risk management, transparency, or quality service delivery.
The Ontario Health Coalition provides comprehensive information on Canadian and international hospital P3s.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has produced this prominent study on the disadvantages and dangers of private involvement in hospitals and health care.
The British House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts has just released an extensive report on Britain's PFI projects, and highlights problems with costs and delays associated with tendering, an increasing lack of competition, and a loss of flexibility.
The Remunicipalization Tracker was just launched as a comprehensive resource, including case studies, about the de-privatization of of water services around the world.
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Living Wage
Political Economy Resource Centre has an incredible list of resources on the Living Wage, including pre- and post-implementation studies of Living Wage ordinances.
The Economic Policy Institute has background information and studies on the Living Wage and other labour issues.
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build Canadian awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. It began in 1991 out of concern about the lack of government progress in addressing child poverty.
2007 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada is a new report by Campaign 2000 outlining the current crisis and calling for a national poverty reduction strategy.
The Alberta College of Social Workers has information about its advocacy activities and resources on poverty.
The National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) is a non-profit, non partisan organization that represents the interests of low-income people in Canada. One of their many campaigns is coordinating a national campaign to Make the Minimum Wage a Living Wage.
Tamarack has numerous resources, studies and information on the Living Wage in a Canadian context.
ACORN Living Wage Campaign: a brief history of the national living wage movement in the United States, background materials such as ordinance summaries and comparisons, drafting tips, research summaries, talking points, and links to other living wage-related sites.
The Canadian Policy Research Networks Work Network has information contains research on a range of work-related issues.
Vibrant Communities provides a process and a working environment where diverse community leaders from across the country work together to share ideas, practices and policies that strengthen their community-based poverty reduction initiatives to reduce poverty and enhance the quality of life in households throughout Canada. This page includes community updates from Edmonton and Calgary.
The Edmonton Social Planning Council provides leadership to the community and its organizations in addressing social issues and effecting changes to social policy.
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Education
The Alberta Teachers' Association, as the professional organization of teachers, promotes and advances public education, safeguards standards of professional practice and serves as the advocate for its members.
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CitiesThe Arusha Centre is a collectively run, member-supported organisation, based in Calgary, that provides resources and programming on local and global social justice issues.
The Alberta Housing Coalition is a dedicated group of individuals and organizations concerned with the inequities of housing in Alberta communities and wanting to undertake appropriate action.
CUPE Local 30 represents Outside Workers at the City of Edmonton, EPCOR, Northlands Park and the Town of Bon Accord and the Village of Thorsby. CUPE Local 30 is one of the largest union locals in Alberta.
Citizens for Better Transit is an Edmonton-based, non-profit citizens group advocating for quality public transit in the Edmonton area. It aims to provide essential information about why quality investments in public transit are important in the present and why they will be even more important in the future.
Environment
The Alberta Environmental Network (AEN) is a non-profit, non-partisan umbrella organization dedicated to helping preserve and protect Alberta's environment.
The Pembina Institute is an independent, not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization. Its major policy research and education programs are in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, environmental governance, ecological fiscal reform, sustainability indicators, and the environmental impacts of the energy industry.
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Rural Issues
Links to come...
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Other Community Partners
The Edmonton Immigrant Men Support Network Society is a non-profit group grounded in principles of adult learning and community development. EIMSNS promotes Inclusion, dialogue and solidarity among immigrant men from various cultural backgrounds, and works to identify areas of concern and develop creative solutions.
