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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).

Public Services in Manitoba Continue Decline: Report
Winnipeg -- Manitoba is facing a looming social deficit and public services are being seriously degraded. These are the central conclusions of The State of Public...
December 14, 2004 | Manitoba Office
Provincial policies make working life tougher for women
(Vancouver) The combination of cuts to public services and weakened employment standards in BC has hit women especially hard, according to a new study that examines the impact of recent government...
December 9, 2004 | BC Office
Nova Scotia fares poorly among Atlantic neighbours on measures of child poverty
HALIFAX:  A report released today by the Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives assesses progress on several measures of child
poverty and finds that Nova Scotia performed fared most...
November 24, 2004 | Nova Scotia Office
Tuition freeze not to blame for funding crunch
(Vancouver) BC’s 6-year tuition freeze is not to blame for cost pressures in the post-secondary education system. During the freeze, which was in place from 1996/97 to 2001/02, real-per student...
November 18, 2004 | BC Office
Costs of university education in Saskatchewan among highest in Canada
A new report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) shows students in Saskatchewan pay higher tuition and fees and graduate with greater debt loads than students...
November 16, 2004 | Saskatchewan Office
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

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