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Listen to CCPA's Yalnizyan take on the census long-form debacle on CBC radio
Yesterday CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan appeared on CBC radio's As It Happens to speak...
July 6, 2010 | National Office
Why the "Canadian model" cannot be used to promote financial liberalization at the WTO
Despite the 2008 financial meltdown, the World Trade Organization continues to negotiate new rules that would promote foreign takeover of domestic banks and more deregulation. WTO advocates are...
July 6, 2010 | National Office
CCPA Senior Economist calls Statistics Canada’s census decision "senseless"
The CCPA's Senior Economist, Armine Yalnizyan, has decried the recent government decision to elmiinate mandatory long-form questionnaires in the gathering of census data...
July 2, 2010 | National Office
Poverty reduction takes more than "tough love"
CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote a post on the ...
June 30, 2010 | National Office
Spring issue of Our Schools/Our Selves looks at why anti-racism education is MIA
What kinds of messages are today's youth receiving in their lives?  What
normative values are educational institutions creating for them? Where does
racism fit? What impact is it...
June 28, 2010 | National Office
New videos on the facts & myths of medicare sustainability
Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17,...
June 28, 2010 | National Office
Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths - with pollster Nick Nanos and health economist Dr. Robert G. Evans
Canadians are being told that...
June 28, 2010 | National Office
Canadian incomes flatlined; poverty unchanged
Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged...
June 18, 2010 | National Office
Ed Broadbent on the rise and fall of economic and social rights
He has committed his life to the advancement of human rights. He's watched Canada move from a "sharing and caring" society to the "new barbarism."  Now Ed Broadbent comes out swinging....
May 31, 2010 | National Office
Quebec earnings gap at 30-year high
A groundbreaking new report shows the earnings gap between the rich and the rest of Quebeckers is at a 30-year high.
...
May 19, 2010 | National Office

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