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    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a major new study today on…

  • Balanced budget legislation is bad public policy

    Who knew BC’s NDP government was into bondage? What else can explain the strange desire to handcuff itself with proposed balanced budget legislation (BBL)? BBL…

  • A Decade of Decline

    Regulated Child Care in Manitoba, 1989 – 1999 Download 281.19 KB44 pages About the authorSusan Prentice

  • Ontario’s Bill 74

    Clawing back democracy Bill 74 is the most recent step in the Ministry’s goal of centralizing control and decentralizing responsibility in education–so long as the…

  • Are tax cuts a free lunch?

    The oft-repeated message that tax cuts will not decrease government revenues has a definite appeal. It says that not only can you have tax cuts,…

  • Large-Scale Hog Production and Processing

    Concerns for Manitobans Download 152.38 KB32 pages About the authorCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Hog report released

    CCPA-MB publishes report of Brandon citizens’ hearings into hog production and the environment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The long-awaited report into the…

  • Moves made to reduce inequality

    A commentary on Manitoba’s provincial budget FAR be it from me to attribute any significance to the coincidence of Finance Minister Greg Selinger’s first budget…

  • Policy Options for Progressive Health Care in BC

    Proceedings of a CCPA-BC Workshop on the Future of Health Care Download 435.21 KB 38 pages About the authorsMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist…

  • Ontario’s little capital gains game

    On budget day, Ontario’s Finance Minister Ernie Eves was full of extravagant praise for his tax cuts. The budget papers were full of impressive looking…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Education on sale

    At what cost? This week, Vancouver is host to the “World Education Market.” According to the Reed Midem Organization, the show’s Paris-based organizer, this event…

  • Discarded "on strike" signs in a pile.

    Balancing two essentials: Public services and the right to strike

    The provincial government’s recent decision to legislate CUPE school support staff back to work raises once again the issue of what constitutes an “essential” service,…