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Tony Clarke’s life was an inspiration to all who seek to build a better world
Tony Clarke was an intellectual, a policy wonk, and most of all, a formidable activist for social, economic, and environmental justice for people in Canada…
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Fuelling Wars, Supplying the Warmongers
Canadian gov’t heavily subsidizing our military companies Between 2003 and 2006, Canada’s war industries profited from at least $7.4 billion in exports to 88 foreign…
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Creating a Just Society
Reducing poverty, inequality will spur economic recovery An economic recovery that is mainly reliant on consumer spending is unavoidably fragile, since most Canadian consumers are…
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BC’s public sector: among the smallest in the country
Have you heard pundits say that BC’s public sector is too big or “bloated”? It’s an argument frequently used as an excuse to advocate for…
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Budget 2010 advance warning: more government spending cuts will further slow BC’s sluggish economic recovery
VANCOUVER—In anticipation of Tuesday’s provincial budget, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warns that further cuts to public spending will impede the economic recovery, which…
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Deficit Mania in Perspective
Ontario Budget 2010 Technical paper Download 453.35 KB5 pages Determined to benefit from the shock of a global recession, conservatives are whipping up unnecessary hysteria…
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BC’s Shrinking Public Sector
Download 458.2 KB6 pages It is a little known fact that BC’s public sector has been shrinking both in terms of employees per capita and…
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A Closer Look at Low Wages in BC
Download 269.06 KB9 pages Workers in British Columbia earned an average of $21.46 an hour in 2008, according to the latest annual wage data published…
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Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable: Recession, Recovery and Transformation
Meeting the policy challenges of our time On November 18th, 2009, in Ottawa, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Canadian Labour Congress held…
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Public funds for Youth For Christ
Have our politicians learned nothing from past mistakes? On February 17, 2010, the Mayor’s Executive Policy Committee (EPC) passed a motion to provide a grant…
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Is it time to stop worrying about the economy?
If you read the papers in this province, you’d think BC had long forgotten about the recession. Every bit of economic good news is trumpeted…
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Au point mort
les familles manitobaines travaillent dur juste pour faire du sur place En mars 2007, le bureau national du CCPA publiait un rapport sur l’inégalité des…
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Will the Olympics boost long-term tourism to BC?
“We’ve invited the world, they’re coming, and the place is a mess.” That was the tag line the CCPA gave to our BC Solutions Budget…
