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Invest surplus in program enhancement, not costly tax cut agenda--report
OTTAWA--Despite recently well-publicized spending commitments, the federal government will post surpluses totaling $24.1 billion over the next three years, according to the Alternative Federal...
November 10, 2004 | National Office
Public delivery of health services best defence against possible trade challenges, Romanow Commission experts conclude
OTTAWA--Public, not-for-profit delivery of new and expanded health services, together with clear national goals, will minimize the risk of trade challenges undermining Canada's health care system...
November 4, 2004 | National Office
Northern Territories more vulnerable to trade treaties--report
OTTAWA - Canada's three northern territories are even more vulnerable than the provinces to the impacts of international trade treaties signed by the federal government, warns a new book released...
October 26, 2004 | National Office
Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care--report
OTTAWA--If health-care activists don't scrutinize where the recently announced over $41 billion in health-care spending is going, it could make the money squandered in the federal sponsorship...
October 25, 2004 | National Office
Market failure, not inefficiency, destroying farms--report
OTTAWA--According to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the idea that farmers are suffering financially because they are inefficient or uncompetitive is false...
October 21, 2004 | National Office
Just say no to industry influence on Canadian drug regulation—report
OTTAWA--Drug regulation in Canada is carried out in a very secretive manner because of the cozy relationship between the brand-name pharmaceutical industry and the Therapeutic Products Directorate...
October 6, 2004 | National Office
Federal communication policies leave Canadians unplugged say communication scholars
OTTAWA--"After the dot.com bubble burst, who trusts Bill Gates to point out the road ahead?" asks Vincent Mosco, holder of the Canadian Research Chair in Communication and Society at Queen's...
September 29, 2004 | National Office
National leadership and vision vital to a "new deal" for cities--Report
OTTAWA--An effective "New Deal" for cities requires a coherent National Urban Strategy to reinforce and redirect current levels of federal involvement in community development and...
September 10, 2004 | National Office
Tuition fee increases further limit access to higher education--report
OTTAWA--Manitoba takes the lead and Nova Scotia remains in last place in Missing Pieces: An alternative guide to Canadian post-secondary education. In the fifth year of the Canadian Centre for...
August 19, 2004 | National Office
Trade treaties heighten privatization threat to Medicare and health care reform -- new study
Ottawa -- Trade treaty rules and proliferating health care privatization are a dangerous mixture that threatens Medicare and health care reform in Canada, warns a new study...
July 27, 2004 | National Office

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