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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).

Shedding light on "invisible" gang members
Most of what is known about gang activity and involvement centres around men. With the exception of some media reports, female gang members have remained mostly invisible in research about gangs,...
June 27, 2001 | Manitoba Office
Private school funding just the tip of the iceberg in Ontario public education cuts
"The Ontario Government's plan to spend $300 million on a tax credit for private schooling is just a fraction of the total of $2.3 billion cut from public education since Mike Harris was elected...
June 14, 2001 | Ontario Office
Report finds U.S. opposition prompted Canada's retreat on NAFTA Investor-State panels
OTTAWA--There is almost no chance that NAFTA Trade Ministers, meeting next month, will make any meaningful changes to limit corporations' rights to use NAFTA to challenge laws that protect public...
June 11, 2001 | National Office
New CCPA study finds BC has the advantage over Washington State
(Vancouver) A new report released today by the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that BC has the advantage over Washington State. The report, "In Search of the Good...
June 8, 2001 | BC Office
BC government's tax cuts give biggest benefit to top 10%
(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the tax cuts announced today by BC's new government are a shocking surprise. "During the election campaign, British Columbians...
June 6, 2001 | BC Office
Use surplus to ease slowdown and rebuild public services
OTTAWA--The government should draw upon the fiscal dividend to ease the impact of the current economic slowdown and to reinvest in programs that bore the brunt of spending cuts in the 1990s,...
May 17, 2001 | National Office
New tax cuts, private school vouchers threaten vital public services, Ontario Alternative Budget says
"The Mike Harris Government has its budget priorities all wrong", the Ontario Alternative Budget says. "Instead of pouring more and more money into pointless tax cuts, attacking public...
May 10, 2001 | Ontario Office
Park the ideology and protect the services, says Ontario Alternative Budget Analysis
In its annual pre-budget analysis, the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group has a simple message for the Harris Government: "Park the ideology and call off the dogs. Put the corporate tax cuts...
May 7, 2001 | Ontario Office
A made-in-Ontario housing crisis
TORONTO--Six years of Harris government housing policy, including massive social housing cuts and growing handouts to private developers, has been a dismal failure, according to a technical report...
May 2, 2001 | Ontario Office
New CCPA study says addiction not just a drug problem, and solutions must address economic globalization
(Vancouver) A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says that the current debate about addiction is incomplete. Public debate about addiction prevention,...
April 30, 2001 | National Office, BC Office

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