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).

Study shows Canada can meet Kyoto and protect energy workers

(OTTAWA) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released a new study laying to rest the myth that tens of thousands of jobs will hit the scrap heap if the federal government...

April 30, 2002 | National Office, BC Office

University funding cuts

The Ontario government's operating grants to the province's universities, allowing for inflation and enrolment growth, declined by $348 million, or 17%, between 1995-96 and 2000-01, according to a...

April 29, 2002 | Ontario Office

CCPA report challenges Tory budget deficit fears

A report from the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group released today challenges the key assumption underlying the Eves Government's claim that the province is on the brink of another fiscal...

April 22, 2002 | Ontario Office

New CCPA report highlights inequality in the global economy

(Ottawa) A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives sheds some light on the pressing issue of inequality in the global economy. The report, The Global Divide, comes as officials...

April 18, 2002 | National Office, BC Office

A budget for a healthy, sustainable Manitoba

Winnipeg - Manitobans will lose public services they value if the government does not halt the erosion of its revenue base. The 2002-03 Alternative Provincial Budget, prepared by the Canadian...

April 18, 2002 | Manitoba Office

NS Tories need to base budgets on fiscal realities not myths

HALIFAX -- According to a publication released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) debate about budget options is being limited by myths about Nova Scotia'...

April 4, 2002 | Nova Scotia Office

Inner city renewal endangered by death of funding agreement

Winnipeg - The expiry of the Winnipeg Development Agreement on March 31, 2001 threatens to kill Winnipeg's unique twenty-year history of tri-level funding for inner-city revitalization--and with...

April 3, 2002 | Manitoba Office

WTO services treaty expanding into public services and domestic regulation

OTTAWA--Senior government officials have just returned from a negotiating session in Geneva to expand the reach of the World Trade Organization's services agreement into areas usually considered...

March 28, 2002 | National Office

Getting rid of the Reference Drug Program would be a costly mistake

(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a study it released today shows BC's Reference Drug Program has been effective at slowing down the growth of prescription drug...

March 27, 2002 | BC Office

Provinces pursue deregulation of tuition fees, further limit access to higher education

OTTAWA--Differing provincial priorities reinforce imbalance in access to quality, publicly accountable higher education, according to an annual report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy...

March 25, 2002 | National Office

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