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Poverty reduction takes more than "tough love"
CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote a post on the ...
June 30, 2010 | National Office
The HST and BC family budgets
That the HST will take a bite out of family budgets is clear to everyone. The main question right now is just how big of a bite. Two studies released earlier this week asked this exact question...
June 28, 2010 | BC 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
Housing Crisis in Saskatchewan: PATHS Report
In Saskatchewan, homelessness has become a grave concern and a serious reality for many women and children. Saskatchewan now has the highest rates of homelessness in the country ...
June 28, 2010 | Saskatchewan 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
The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep...
June 22, 2010 | BC 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
BC's Clean Energy Act will cost British Columbians
In today's Vancouver Sun, Marvin Shaffer argues that the Clean Energy Act is far worse legislation than the HST — in fact, he says, this is the legislation that British Columbians should be...
June 14, 2010 | BC Office
Winnipeg Premiere of Poor No More a great success!
The Carol...
June 11, 2010 | Manitoba Office

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