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New video: Taxes, the gift we give each other
Our new video shows the value of contributing taxes. Public health care, garbage pick up, safe food, clean water, public parks, emergency services, higher learning – the chance to live in great...
June 5, 2012 | National Office
50th Anniversary of Medicare Calendar
The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative...
May 29, 2012 | Saskatchewan Office
Income inequality, by the numbers
This week, The Huffington Post features an infographic breaking down the details on the growth of income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2009. Created by Ryerson University...
May 28, 2012 | National Office
The Three Amigos: How Income Inequality in Mexico is different than Canada and the U.S.
An examination of income inequality in North America reveals that Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth, according to a...
May 18, 2012 | National Office
New report lifts fog on government job cuts
Due to the opaque reporting methods used by the federal government to detail its spending and employment projections, getting a clear picture of core public service job losses is unnecessarily...
May 16, 2012 | National Office
Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens' Conference
On June 15th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present a unique Citizen's Conference on the Future of Medicare. "Envisioning the Future of...
May 10, 2012 | Saskatchewan Office
Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Project: Seth Klein at INET conference (video)
CCPA-BC Director Seth Klein was recently invited to give a speech in Berlin at the annual meeting of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (an international gathering of leading economists)....
May 3, 2012 | BC Office
Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout
Throughout the 2008-2010 financial crisis, Canadian banks were touted by the federal government—and the banks themselves—as being much more stable than other countries’ big banks. Canadians we...
April 30, 2012 | National Office
Living Wage for Metro Vancouver rises to $19.14
For families with young children, the costs of basic necessities like food, rent and child care quickly add up. Even with full-time work year round, both parents in a family of four must earn at...
April 26, 2012 | BC Office
Nova Scotia should defend its health workers' rights
While negotiations between Capital Health and its employees continue, health workers' rights are as prescient now as ever before.  Working people have the right to bargain collectively and...
April 25, 2012 | Nova Scotia Office

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