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CCPA releases Alternative Federal Budget 2011
The CCPA released the Alternative Federal Budget for 2011 today. This year's AFB presents a comprehensive recovery plan designed to: get Canadians working in good jobs again;...
March 15, 2011 | National Office
Ben Parfitt on the dangers of fracking in today's Vancouver Sun
The Vancouver Sun today published Ben Parfitt's op ed on the dangers of "fracking" in Northern BC. (Fracking is hydraulic fracturing: a method of extracting gas by injecting fluid and sand into...
March 9, 2011 | BC Office
Canada's military spending higher now than any time since Second World War
A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the...
March 9, 2011 | National Office
Celebrating International Women's Day
Fun fact: Did you know 69 per cent of the staff at the CCPA are women? In the past year the CCPA has been proud to publish two major books that focus on women's knowledge and empowerment....
March 8, 2011 | National Office
Things about a changing Canada that 'You Oughta Know'
The CCPA has launched a graphics-based series aimed at highlighting poignant facts and figures distilled from the many reports and studies that we publish every year. The series is called...
March 7, 2011 | National Office
Federal outsourcing creating a shadow public service
If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. ...
March 3, 2011 | National Office
Inequality and revolution
Income inequality "has emerged as a major social and economic issue" in Canada and elsewhere, writes Canadian author and political commentator Frances Russell.
"More importantly, no longer...
March 2, 2011
Five reasons to stop the corporate tax cut
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video. ...
February 28, 2011 | National Office
Carbon pricing explained, in words and images
Today the CCPA-BC published a new study on carbon pricing, and we created a "zooming presentation" to go with it, using a web-based software called Prezi. Watch the presentation below and share...
February 23, 2011 | BC Office
Inequality: A pressing issue
The problem of worsening income inequality is quickly gathering steam. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, leading experts named inequality, the concentration of wealth into the hands of...
February 22, 2011

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