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).

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

Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis: report

OTTAWA—In a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), two prominent economists propose changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices to prevent a future...

December 16, 2010 | National Office

The Halifax Convention Centre – a bottomless money pit?

HALIFAX, NS – The proposed new convention centre has the potential to be a bottomless money pit, cautions a new report being released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...

December 13, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office

BC’s Forest Service jeopardized by deep cuts: time for a formal inquiry

(VANCOUVER) A decade of layoffs and budget cuts, combined with the recent radical cabinet reorganization, have so thoroughly gutted BC’s Forest Service that the door is wide open to abuses of the...

December 8, 2010 | BC Office

Richest 1% income shares at historic high

TORONTO – Canada’s richest 1% are taking more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history, says a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). ...

December 1, 2010 | National Office

Industry consumes well over half of all electricity in Saskatchewan, efficiencies must be made a priority: Report

Regina — In the next ten years, industry will consume close to two-thirds of Saskatchewan’s electrical generation, with mining, steel, chemicals, oil refining and upgrading poised to consume 46.8...

November 30, 2010 | Saskatchewan Office

14,000 children in Nova Scotia still living in poverty is 14,000 too many

HALIFAX, NS –Twenty-one years ago (in 1989), the government of Canada promised to end child poverty by the year 2000. In 2000, not only had they not kept the promise - the child...

November 24, 2010 | Nova Scotia Office

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