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The federal government still has time to improve the 2024 budget—will it?
The following text is adapted from a speech delivered by David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to the Senate’s committee…
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Putting Health First
Canadian Health Care Reform in a Globalizing World Download 63.66 KB 348 pages This collection brings together research reports prepared for the Romanow Commission by…
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Eroding Equalization
The issue of equalization has raised its barely comprehensible head once more. But just because it is complicated doesn’t mean it’s not important. So here…
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November 2004: Who’s Keeping Tabs on Global Tests?
$85 million on international tests? It’s a sponsorship-scandal-sized waste One day my daughter came home from high school saying the teachers were really angry at…
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November 2004: We Can Learn Much From Down Under
Nine lessons on early child care we can learn from New Zealand The new federal government has promised to introduce legislation that would lead to…
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November 2004: From Monroe to Bush to Martin?
“Failed state” doctrine used to justify overthrow of Haiti’s democracy “America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones…We must…
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November 2004: How to Brainwash a Population
Democracy can’t work if system is subverted by propaganda Winston Churchill once described democracy as “the worst form of government except all those other forms…
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Northern Territories more vulnerable to trade treaties–report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA – Canada’s three northern territories are even more vulnerable than the provinces to the impacts of international…
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Globalization and the North
Impacts of Trade Treaties On Canada’s Northern Governments Download 2.86 MB110 pages The Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut have unique societies, economies and environments. Each…
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Follow the money, or risk squandering billions of public dollars on for-private health care–report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA–If health-care activists don’t scrutinize where the recently announced over $41 billion in health-care spending is going, it…
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What Does the Increased Federal Funding for Health Care Mean for Medicare Advocates?
Download 109.49 KB6 pages About the authorSheila Block
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Market failure, not inefficiency, destroying farms–report
OTTAWA–According to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the idea that farmers are suffering financially because they are inefficient or…
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The Farm Crisis, Bigger Farms and the Myths of Competition and Efficiency
Download 1.63 MB 32 pages About the authorsFred TaitDarrin Qualman
