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CC – Loop – 4 Col Blog Index Simple

December 19, 2023

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  • May 2006: Our Leaking Planetary Lifeboat

    Pursued much longer, corporate greed will bring disaster Given the dependence of all of Earth’s inhabitants—even the wealthy élite—on the planet’s basic life-support capacity, you…

    May 1, 2006
  • May 2006: Our Troops Shouldn’t Be There

    British and Soviet empires both failed in Afghanistan (Why is Canada trying to help the U.S. empire succeed?) The February release of a poll on…

    May 1, 2006
  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2006

    Education’s Iron Cage and Its Dismantling In the New Global Order Over the last three decades, global capitalism has carried out a full-scale assault on…

    May 1, 2006
  • Mending Medicare

    Analysis and Commentary on Canada’s Health Care Crisis Download 730.87 KB 24 pages Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006…

    May 1, 2006
  • BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends

    Spring/Summer 2006, Volume 9, Number 2 Download 1.22 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Denied Assistance: Closing the Front Door on Welfare in BC Public Transit…

    April 30, 2006
  • FastFacts: Aboriginal People, Jobs, and the Provincial Budget

    Download 33.88 KB 2 pages

    April 28, 2006
  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Alternative Federal Budget 2006

    Moving Forward Download 1.29 MB 68 pages Attachments Budget in Brief: Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Moving Forward L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral en 2006:…

    April 27, 2006
  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Moving Forward: Alternative Federal Budget puts the surplus to work

    OTTAWA—The federal government has the resources to maintain and build on the commitments made in the 2004-05 minority Parliament and use upcoming surpluses to move…

    April 27, 2006
  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates

    Download 588.21 KB4 pages Attachments Welfare rates opinion poll resultsBudget Savings on the Backs of the Poor

    April 24, 2006
  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Budget Savings on the Backs of the Poor

    Who Paid the Price for Welfare Benefit Cuts in BC Download 585.47 KB 4 pages Attachments A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates Welfare rates…

    April 24, 2006
  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    CCPA calls on province to raise welfare rates

    Arbitrary cuts, inflation have driven down benefit rates by 30% since mid-90s READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…

    April 24, 2006
  • A call for accountability at the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance

    The government has now been decisively called to account for its harmful policy choices at the Ministry of Children and Families. Justice Ted Hughes confirms…

    April 18, 2006
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  1. May 2006: Our Leaking Planetary Lifeboat
  2. May 2006: Our Troops Shouldn’t Be There
  3. Our Schools/Our Selves: Spring 2006
  4. Mending Medicare
  5. BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
  6. FastFacts: Aboriginal People, Jobs, and the Provincial Budget
  7. Alternative Federal Budget 2006
  8. Moving Forward: Alternative Federal Budget puts the surplus to work
  9. A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates
  10. Budget Savings on the Backs of the Poor
  11. CCPA calls on province to raise welfare rates
  12. A call for accountability at the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 15, 2025 WINNIPEG (TREATY ONE) – Manitoba’s second quarter fiscal update, released this afternoon, provides a snapshot of the difficult fiscal…

    December 15, 2025
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    As Manitoba Hydro moves on energy strategy, staffing must remain in focus 

    Over the last year the Provincial Government and Manitoba Hydro have announced several projects that follow through on the province’s Affordable Energy Strategy, including Bipoles…

    December 15, 2025
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    December 15, 2025

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    Algoma Steel layoffs signal it’s time for Canada to up its game on trade and industrial policy

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