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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).

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
The Farm Crisis and Corporate Power
OTTAWA--Canadian farmers are struggling with near-record low prices and many face bankruptcy unless the current crisis is adequately addressed by the federal and provincial governments. But...
April 25, 2001 | National Office
Ontario's health care spending not out of control, CCPA study reveals
TORONTO -- Despite claims by the Harris government to the contrary, health care spending is not out of control in Ontario, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
April 24, 2001 | Ontario Office
New report shows NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries
Washington, D.C. - An evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement on its seventh anniversary finds a continent-wide pattern of stagnant worker incomes, lost job opportunities, increased...
April 11, 2001 | National Office
CCPA study exposes Ontario's "manufactured" fiscal crisis
Toronto--The only way the Ontario government can avoid a budget deficit in 2001-02 is to suspend the implementation of further tax cuts. That's the conclusion of a study prepared for the...
April 9, 2001 | Ontario Office
A better budget for Manitoba's future
The Manitoba Alternative (Alternative Provincial Budget 2001-02), co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba and Cho!ces: A Coalition for Social Justice,...
April 4, 2001 | Manitoba Office
New study peers behind the fortified walls of Quebec City at the Americas free trade negotiations (FTAA)
(Ottawa)--The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a new report today that sheds light on the Free Trade Area of the Americas. In the absence of a public draft FTAA text, "Inside the...
March 29, 2001 | National Office, BC Office

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