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Beyond Austerity – Hugh Mackenzie
CCPA economist Hugh Mackenzie schooled the room on the manufactured deficit crisis at the “Ontario 2013: Toward a Post-Austerity Vision” session. Challenging the Numbers –…
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Our Way or the Norway
One of goals in my paper, The Petro-Path Not Taken, was to compare Norway and Canada-Alberta’s record in distributing petroleum wealth amongst persons and amongst provinces.…
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The dubious case for casinos
I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the…
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Seeing inequality through rose-coloured classes
Amidst the reluctant media coverage of Idle No More exists a particularly irritating contradiction that centres on how wealth and inequality are examined. The Occupy…
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Governing Motherhood
Who Pays and Who Profits? Download 0 bytes14 pages In this report from CCPA-NS, Phyllis Rippeyoung argues that the increasing pressures put on mothers to…
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Yukon’s court ruling on free-entry mining could help Idle No More
This past December 27th, the appeals court of the Yukon Territory gave an important ruling regarding the rights of First Nations in relation to Yukon’s…
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Fast Facts: City no longer a player in poverty reduction
Winnipeg falls further behind other cities with proposed budget cuts The City of Winnipeg’s preliminary operating budget for 2013 cuts spending on poverty reduction, housing,…
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The Great Bear Rainforest – Carbon Store or Carbon Story?
The provincial government, First Nations and environmental organizations alike have all hailed it as an ecological triumph and a shining beacon of a new economic…
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2013 Preliminary Operating Budget Fails Tax Fairness Test
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been analysing the City’s operating budget for several years now. We fully understand the challenges council faces: lack…
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