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Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions
Happy New Year!   As we round out another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Bruce Campbell, Trish...
January 1, 2011 | National Office
CCPA features in The Globe and Mail's discussion on income inequality
In the last few weeks The Globe and Mail has been examining the problem of income inequality in Canada. Our own Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was the special guest in The Globe...
December 21, 2010 | National Office
A recipe for greater equality
The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health...
December 19, 2010 | National Office
A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publications access
For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge — giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic...
December 17, 2010 | National Office
Income inequality bad for everyone: Richard Wilkinson video
The CCPA was pleased to co-sponsor a three-city lecture tour featuring Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the best selling book The Spirit Level, which examines income inequality among developed...
December 17, 2010 | National Office
Federal budget takes center stage
It appears as though this year's federal budget will be particularly important in the parliamentary calendar as it may be what brings down the government.  Ignatieff...
December 17, 2010 | National Office
Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis
Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In...
December 16, 2010 | National Office
Mortgage financing reform needed to avoid another crisis
Changes to U.S. and Canadian mortgage finance polices are necessary in order to prevent a future financial crisis, say two prominent economists. In...
December 16, 2010 | National Office
Shrinking middle class makes Toronto a city of socioeconomic extremes
Important new research by David Hulchanski shows Toronto is becoming a city of stark economic extremes as its middle class is hollowed out and replaced by a bipolar city of the rich and poor – one...
December 15, 2010
Economists unite. You have nothing to lose but data
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail about how "economists on both sides of the political spectrum point to an unsettling truth" about the federal government's...
December 8, 2010 | National Office

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