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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).

Slow progress wins Nova Scotia a failing grade in the fight against child poverty among Canadian provinces
HALIFAX: A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that Canada and Nova Scotia have lost ground in efforts to reduce child poverty. "Promises to Keep: The Nova...
November 24, 2003 | Nova Scotia Office
FTAA trade negotiators should heed lessons from NAFTA
OTTAWA-Trade ministers from Canada and 40 other countries in North, Central and South America are meeting in Miami this week to try to reach agreement on establishing a Free Trade Area of the...
November 18, 2003 | National Office
Cancel private hospitals
Toronto - Four prominent economists and a former director of audit operations with Canada's Auditor General released a report today that is sharply critical of controversial "public-private-...
November 6, 2003 | National Office
Alternative Federal Budget predicts substantial surpluses and spending room, despite Ottawa's fear mongering
Ottawa--Despite John Manley and Paul Martin's repeated warnings of a dismal fiscal outlook, the Alternative Federal Budget's calculations show Canadians can expect an underlying federal surplus of...
October 31, 2003 | National Office
L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral prévoit d’importants surplus et des réserves pour les dépenses, malgré la campagne de peur d’Ottawa
Ottawa—Malgré la...
October 31, 2003 | National Office
Cruise ship industry not a panacea for port cities
(Halifax) A report released by the CCPA today finds that Canadian ports need to take a sober and realistic look at their expectations of the cruise industry. The study finds that, in their rush to...
September 25, 2003 | BC Office, Nova Scotia Office
For cash and future considerations
OTTAWA--Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), while promoted as an innovative approach to the provision of public goods and services, are playing a damaging role in Ontario's universities, according...
September 24, 2003 | National Office, Ontario Office
Rough trade
OTTAWA--The draft text of the World Trade Organization's declaration submitted to the upcoming "Ministerial" session in Cancun, Mexico, is heavily biased to the priorities and interests of the...
September 11, 2003 | National Office
Canada and developing nations should resist competition policy rules at Cancun WTO Ministerial
OTTAWA--A new study warns that a WTO agreement on competition policy could have a number of negative consequences. It recommends that WTO Ministers reject a proposal to negotiate competition...
August 29, 2003 | National Office, BC Office
NS tax cut increases inequality between Halifax and rest of the province and between women and men
HALIFAX - According to a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives the Hamm government's 10% income tax cut will increase the economic inequality between Halifax and the...
July 31, 2003 | Nova Scotia Office

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