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Reality Check: Alternative Economic Update shows Liberals have reneged on 50/50 spending promise
OTTAWA--An Alternative Economic Update released today shows that between the 1997 election and fiscal 2001, the Liberals will have spent only 2 per cent of the fiscal dividend on social investment...
October 12, 2000 | National Office
Pour faire le point
Ottawa–Une mise à jour économique alternative publiée aujourd’hui démontre qu’entre l’élection de 1997 et l’exercice financier 2001, les Libéraux n’auront consacré que 2 p. cent du dividende...
October 12, 2000 | National Office
Flying Without a Net
(OTTAWA)--Although the economic well-being of Canadian workers has improved notably in the past two years, it remains significantly poorer than before the last recession, mainly because of a sharp...
September 28, 2000 | National Office
Sequel to Seattle
Despite the dramatic breakdown of global trade talks in Seattle in December 1999, sweeping negotiations are now quietly underway in Geneva to subject an ever-greater degree of democratic decision-...
September 13, 2000 | National Office
In the corporate interest
The presence of the Youth News Network (YNN) has disrupted the school community, created a climate of divisiveness, and placed schools in the service of the YNN corporation, according to a report...
July 10, 2000 | National Office
A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Ottawa--Poverty is still a women's issue - even though people no longer seem to be talking about it. Almost 19% of adult women in Canada are poor. That's the highest rate of women's poverty in two...
April 5, 2000 | National Office
Federal Budget should promote healthy families
OTTAWA--Today, as the Liberal Caucus meets to discuss the upcoming federal budget, national and community organizations released an Alternative Federal Budget, calling on the federal government to...
February 1, 2000 | National Office
Le budget fédéral doit promouvoir la santé des familles
OTTAWA—Tandis que le caucus parlementaire du Parti libéral se réunissait à Ottawa aujourd’hui, une coalition d’organismes nationaux et communautaires lançait un budget alternatif, sommant le...
February 1, 2000 | National Office
Pressure from media owners leads to underreporting of social issues, study says
Ottawa; January 24, 2000--The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today released a report, The Missing News, which documents and analyzes recurring blind spots in news coverage by Canada's...
January 24, 2000 | National Office
Federal budget surplus should benefit all Canadians
(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives--BC Office (CCPA-BC) is calling on Finance Minister Paul Martin to reject calls for across the board tax cuts in this year's federal budget...
November 23, 1999 | National Office, BC Office

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