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CCPA annual report 2024
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is Canada’s foremost progressive think tank. As an independent, non-profit research institute, we focus on issues of social,…
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Hudak’s 100,000 jobs demolition plan: more extreme than the Harris years
Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s campaign pledge to demolish 100,000 public sector jobs makes his mentor – former Premier Mike Harris – look like a…
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Cheap Power for Jobs (Except it Ain’t Cheap)
It has a nice political ring to it — “power for jobs”. That is what Glen Clark wanted to do with the Columbia River Treaty…
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Lac-Mégantic : camouflage de la vérité derrière l’échec de la réglementation
La semaine dernière, 10 mois après la catastrophe qui a frappé la ville de Lac‑Mégantic, les procureurs du gouvernement du Québec ont déposé des accusations…
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Fast Facts: You Get What You Pay For
Winnipeg’s mayoral race is now officially underway. Any serious contenders are going to have to convince a very skeptical public that they can turn around…
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Britain and British Columbia now moving in different directions on P3s. BC taxpayers may be the losers
A dozen years ago when Gordon Campbell’s newly elected British Columbia government decided it wanted to build its infrastructure with public private partnerships (P3s) it…
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Nova Scotia government has to look beyond the economics of immigration report urges
Halifax- Over the past 20 years, the number of immigrants to Nova Scotia has increased, but the share of immigrants coming to the province has…
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Study: The Economic Leadership and Prosperity of Canadian Women
Testimony to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, April 30, 2014 Download 124.72 KB5 pages Kate McInturff is a Senior Researcher at the…
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Expanding the Vision
Why Nova Scotia Should Look Beyond Econocentric Immigration Policy Download 481.91 KB 38 pages Nova Scotia’s immigration policy to-date has largely fallen into step with…
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Lac-Mégantic: Suppressing the Truth Behind Regulatory Failure
Last week, 10 months after disaster struck the town of Lac-Mégantic, Québec government prosecutors laid criminal charges against three front-line employees of Montréal Maine and…
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Fast Facts: Decolonizing the Inner City – a look at Youth for Christ
Youth for Christ is an evangelical Christian organization whose “Centre for Youth Excellence” received public funding based on a business plan that promised to meet…
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New AG report on access to welfare disability benefits
Yesterday (May 15), BC’s Auditor General released an important new report on access to welfare disability benefits. The report didn’t get much media attention, but…
