Our publications are available to all at no cost. Please support the CCPA and help make important research and ideas available to everyone. Make a donation today.
-
Omnibus Crime Bill Won’t Reduce Victimization Rates
Harper, Nicholson and Toews are selling their snake-oil crime bill by presuming to speak on behalf of victims. When told that the crime rate has…
-
The Financial Wealth of Canada’s Top 1%
About the authorMarc LeeMarc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in…
-
Occupy Canada: This week’s news
Occupy Wall Street has opened up public discussion about a problem that keeps getting worse: the gap between the rich and the rest of us…
-
Transforming transportation will improve quality of life for all British Columbians
The 2010 Winter Olympics shone a light on one of the most fascinating experiments in transportation planning ever conducted in North America. Previously unthinkable measures…
-
Electricity conservation efforts should include high prices for large consumers, protection for low-income households
If BC is going to meet its climate action targets, the province needs to shift away from natural gas and rely instead on clean electricity.…
-
The War Against Aging
There are, the old expression goes, lies, damn lies — and statistics. Throw enough frightening numbers around, and you can sell any sort of unfairness.…
-
Wealth and income in the top 1%
One thing I really like about the Occupy movement is that it reclaiming mental space. I’m thinking of the overt focus on the riches…
-
Are the Top 1% Just Lucky?
I expect some folks who oppose the Occupy movement will weigh in on merit – that the top 1% are deserving of their riches because…
-
Canada and Mexico punching below their weight in Washington
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Despite their moderate size – taken together, Canada and Mexico would only be the fifth largest of the world’s economies…
-
Punching Below Their Weight
Why Canada and Mexico are so important to the United States yet so impotent in Washington Download 173.26 KB 6 pages Despite their moderate size…
-
An invitation to the 2011 David Lewis Lecture from Avi Lewis
Invitation to the 2011 David Lewis Lecture from Avi Lewis The CCPA is proud to present Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg—two of Canada’s leading thinkers…
-
Tar Sands and the CETA
The recent decision by the European Union (EU) to disregard Canadian government pressure and forge ahead with regulations that recognise the higher green-house-gas intensity of…
