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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 health care depends on federal leadership
OTTAWA‹If the federal government fails to get back in the health care game with increased funding, and by using its legal and moral authority to prevent the growth of the private system, it will...
January 23, 2003 | National Office
Economist connects the dots
(OTTAWA) Of the three competing visions for health care that are on the table -- proposed by Senator Michael Kirby, Roy Romanow, and the provinces -- only one will end up defining the direction of...
January 22, 2003 | National Office
Lower Mainland gets skewed share of income tax cut
(Vancouver) A new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that BC’s income tax cuts concentrated dollars in Greater...
January 21, 2003 | BC Office
A fine balance
Death through attrition and a barrage of anti-union legislation is the future for the Canadian labour movement unless it aggressively organizes thousands of new members every year. That's the...
December 19, 2002 | National Office
Skewed distribution of financial assets driving growing wealth inequality across Canada, says new study
OTTAWA--Canadians may view their country as a land of opportunity, but it is also a land of deep and abiding inequality in its distribution of personal wealth. This is the key conclusion of Rags...
December 12, 2002 | National Office, BC Office
New way of thinking about Aboriginal education needed
(Winnipeg) Aboriginal high-school students want the education necessary to enable them to participate fully in Canadian society and in their own self-governance, but they do not want to abandon...
December 11, 2002 | Manitoba Office
The right to strike and the provision of emergency services in Canadian health care
Should health care professionals and support staff have the right to strike? Why have more than 200,000 of them walked off the job for varying periods since 1999--whether they had the legal right...
December 10, 2002 | National Office, Nova Scotia Office
Manitoba Research Alliance to explore community economic development in the new economy
November 29, 2002 | Manitoba Office
Romanow report
OTTAWA--The Romanow report is a clear rejection of the status quo and a pragmatic step in the right direction to secure the future of public health care, according to CCPA economist Armine...
November 28, 2002 | National Office
New study explains why Canada should not jump on the monetary integration bandwagon
OTTAWA--Spurred by a plummeting Canadian dollar which has been subjected to strong speculative pressures during the last decade, support has built up for greater monetary integration and even for...
November 21, 2002 | National Office

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