Updates from the CCPA

Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from the Canada or Quebec...

February 8, 2012 | National Office

Saskatchewan Labour wins Essential Services Challenge: Court Rules Bill 5 "Unconstitutional."

Saskatchewan's labour movement won a significant victory yesterday as Justice Dennis Ball ruled that Bill 5, The Public Service Essential Services Act (PSES) violated the...

February 7, 2012 | Saskatchewan Office

Lessons from London, Ontario: The crackdown on middle class jobs

Electro-Motive/Caterpillar's decision to lock out its London, Ontario workers on January 1st, demanding workers accept a 50% pay cut or lose the plant altogether, brings into focus a theme that is...

February 6, 2012 | National Office, Ontario Office

Resources on pension reform and Old Age Security

Last week Prime Minister Harper signaled possible cuts to Canada's pension programs, namely Old Age Security benefits for middle- and lower-income seniors. The Canadian Centre for Policy...

February 6, 2012 | National Office

Every Tool Shapes the Task

The speed and breadth of technological change and how it plays out in education is creating many battles. The Winter 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves --...

February 6, 2012 | National Office

CAW/CEP Merger Discussions

The CAW and CEP, two organizations with extensive experience with union mergers, have embarked on a...

February 5, 2012

Caterpillar and the Investment Canada Act

Caterpillar's February 3rd announcement that it will close the Electro-Motive Diesel facility in London has renewed calls to overhaul the Investment Canada Act. The...

February 5, 2012 | National Office

Education is a public good

Hundreds of students across the province came together on February 1st for the Canadian Federation of Students' Day of Action to protest Nova Scotia’s continuing erosion of funding...

February 2, 2012 | Nova Scotia Office

Did you know poverty costs PEI $315 million per year?

The direct cost of poverty for the PEI government is an estimated 100 million dollars per year — 7.6% of the 2009/10 PEI government budget. ...

January 26, 2012 | Nova Scotia Office

What economic recovery?

We've all heard political leaders boast that the Canadian economy has fully recovered from the recession and that the recession was not as severe in Canada as in other countries. It turns out that...

January 26, 2012 | National Office

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.

- Ed Broadbent

Support solutions Join or Donate

Newsroom

Find Publications

Support Our Work

Email Newswire

Follow the CCPA