News Releases

In addition to our formal news releases (below), you can get informal news about CCPA's activities from our Updates. You can also view news releases and updates from specific CCPA offices across Canada or from specific projects and inititatives (such as The Growing Gap, Climate Justice, Alternative Federal Budget, and others).

Canadian military spending higher than any time since WWII: study

OTTAWA—Twelve years of budget increases have left Canadian military spending higher than at any time since the end of the Second World War, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for...

March 9, 2011 | National Office

Federal outsourcing costs untouched despite budget caps: study

OTTAWA—If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs, says a new study released today by the Canadian...

March 3, 2011 | National Office

Les budgets plafonnés n’ont pas d’effet sur les coûts d’impartition du fédéral, selon une étude

OTTAWA – Si le gouvernement fédéral veut être pris au sérieux lorsqu’il parle de contrôler les dépenses, il doit examiner d’un œil critique l’explosion des coûts d’impartition, affirme-t-on dans...

March 3, 2011 | National Office

Fix carbon tax by ending corporate tax breaks, using revenues for climate action and new tax credit: study

(Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Sierra Club BC calls on the provincial government to scale up BC's carbon tax, and makes a number of recommendations to...

February 23, 2011 | BC Office

Saskatchewan's Potash: Who Really Benefits? Report

Regina — The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office today released Exploiting Saskatchewan’s Potash: Who Benefits? by John W. Warnock. The new report considers the history of...

January 27, 2011 | Saskatchewan Office

Poverty costs PEI over $240 million a year

It is estimated that the total cost of poverty in Prince Edward Island is at minimum between $240 and $320 million per year, which corresponds to about $1,720 and $2,265 per person, per year....

January 26, 2011 | Nova Scotia Office

Harmonization of drug standards may put private profit before public health

OTTAWA—As Health Canada begins its final consultations on proposals to “modernize” standards on prescription drugs, a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)...

January 19, 2011 | National Office

New Brunswick Tax Reform – ineffective, regressive and unsustainable

The government’s tax reform package is based on the belief that income tax cuts have the power to provide a strong stimulus to the provincial economy, and thus are considered self-financing. “Not...

January 18, 2011 | Nova Scotia Office

Saskpower: Coal-dependent laggard or renewable energy leader?

Regina — The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office released today Transforming Saskatchewan’s Electrical Future: The Potential for Wind and Solar Power, by Mark...

January 11, 2011 | Saskatchewan Office

Canada’s best-paid CEOs ‘recession-proof’: study

TORONTO – Canada’s best-paid 100 CEOs breezed through the worst of the recession with earnings 155 times higher than the average Canadian income earner, says a new study by the...

January 3, 2011 | National Office

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