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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).

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take some of his own advice and increase his government’s economic stimulus plan, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
April 6, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA – Le premier ministre Stephen Harper devrait suivre certains de ses propres conseils et augmenter le plan de stimulation économique du gouvernement, affirme-t-on dans une nouvelle...
April 6, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA—A controversial bill to change Canada’s grain regulatory system threatens Canada’s grain safety and quality, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA...
March 31, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA – Un projet de loi controversé qui vise à modifier le régime de réglementation des grains du Canada menace la sécurité et la qualité des grains, affirme-t...
March 31, 2009 | National Office
Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system...
March 30, 2009 | National Office, BC Office
Halifax, NS­ The Maritimes experienced an 1800 percent increase in cruise passenger numbers between 1990 and 2008. However, the author of a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS...
March 26, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
(Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and...
March 25, 2009 | BC Office
OTTAWA—Tax cuts are the worst possible economic stimulus with Bank of Canada interest rates heading to zero, and may well have a negative effect on the economy, says a report released today by the...
March 11, 2009 | National Office
(Vancouver) A new study reveals that BC’s poor and middle class families are in worse financial shape than their parents’ generation. The study, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
March 10, 2009 | BC Office
Halifax, N.S. - Our safety is at risk when governments fail to respond effectively to changing heat supplies and prices, according to Larry Hughes, the lead author of two new reports released...
March 9, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office

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