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December 19, 2023

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  • How can we influence budgets?

    Building power to change social structures

    November 1, 2023
  • The social solution to Canada’s health care problem

    The medical care system clearly needs government support to get it back to health

    November 1, 2023
  • Time to grow social and education spending—it’s key to good health

    Medical care and social investments are not an either/or proposition.

    November 1, 2023
  • Hennessy’s Index: GDP vs. Well-being

    More and more Canadians support governments prioritizing social metrics rather than just economic ones

    November 1, 2023
  • Healthy public policy requires working within and beyond the health care system

    Population health metrics are about more than just health care—they’re about the society we live in.

    November 1, 2023
  • Auto workers an unexpected ground zero for climate transition risks

    Shift Storm newsletter—September 2023 edition

    October 31, 2023
  • Reality check on public spending

    Reality check: BC government can afford to make more investments in urgent social and environmental priorities

    Provincial government spending as a share of GDP still hasn’t recovered after decades-old social spending cuts under the previous government despite growing need for public…

    October 31, 2023
  • Mesurer ce qui compte : Évaluer les progrès en vue de doter le Canada de services de garde à l’enfance à 10 $/jour

    About the authorsDavid MacdonaldDavid joined the CCPA as its Senior Ottawa Economist in 2011, although he has been a long time contributor as a research…

    October 26, 2023
  • Speaker giving presentation in lecture hall at university. Students listening to lecture and making notes.

    Time to give adult education a boost

    About the authorJim Silver

    October 26, 2023
  • Ha-Joon Chang

    2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture with Economist Ha-Joon Chang

    (video) Economist Ha-Joon Chan delivers the 2023 Gideon Rosenbluth Memorial Lecture, co-hosted by the CCPA-BC and the UBC Vancouver School of Economics.

    October 25, 2023
  • Expansive aerial view of a pit mining project in Alberta's Oilsands near Fort McMurray.
    Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada at risk of huge lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended, warn civil society organizations and academics

    Ottawa and London—Canada faces “huge financial risk” of lawsuits from British fossil fuel companies if the United Kingdom joins the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for…

    October 24, 2023
  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Canada at risk of lawsuits if U.K. accession to pacific trade deal not amended

    Civil society organizations and academics are warning about investor-state dispute settlement

    October 24, 2023
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