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TimberWest forestry operations destabilizing Vancouver Island communities
TimberWest is consistently one of the top exporters of raw, unprocessed logs from British Columbia’s coastal forests. The company also has growing ties with Island…
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Fast Facts: Valuing the Voice of People Living with Disabilities in Manitoba
Recently the Manitoba Government made a decision to reject a core funding application from the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) for the 2018-19…
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2019: Trends to watch this year
Income inequality isn’t resolving itself in Canada. On the first working day of this year the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released its annual…
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Fast Facts: Social Impact Bonds
A Costly Innovation First published by the Winnipeg Free Press January 16, 2019 Social Impact Bonds or ‘SIBs’ are a relatively new mechanism for governments…
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How (and how much) doctors are paid: why it matters
How we pay doctors through our public health system is an important issue that receives little public scrutiny, despite the fact that physician compensation represents…
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Priorities and funding for health care in BC
This post is part of our BC Budget 2019 series, which highlights key findings from the CCPA’s research and outlines our recommendations for the 2019…
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Social impact bonds: Everyone’s profiting, except at-risk Indigenous women
Social impact bonds…they’re back in case you didn’t get enough of them here or here. This time around they are in Manitoba and it’s a $3 million program that involves doulas…
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The State of Ontario’s Finances
Cutting through the fog ahead of the 2019 budget Download 342.09 KB12 pages In advance of the Ford government’s first Ontario budget, this report examines…
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Our BC Budget 2019 priorities: Poverty reduction and climate action
In anticipation of the 2019 BC Budget—which the provincial government will present in February—the CCPA-BC is publishing a series of Policy Note posts highlighting the…
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