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What’s on the Agenda?
Remember in high school history when you learned about the very first nationwide protest for the nine-hour workday (May 1872) and the passing of the…
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After the Freeze
Restoring University Affordability by Rolling Back Tuition in Saskatchewan Download 933.53 KB62 pages This report examines the impact of rising tuition and living costs on…
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A Living Wage for Kingston
Download 598.24 KB22 pages This report builds on previous work published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which aimed to define and operationalize the…
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Water Politics
Underdevelopment and overconsumption drive water crisis Water crises are often ranked second only to climate change in environmental challenges that we face in the 21st…
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Parliament no longer the place to fight for a just society
My interest in federal politics is rapidly declining. From now on, I’ll be paying little or no attention to parliamentary antics for the next four…
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Oil sent through new pipeline likely to end up in China
By year’s end, the U.S. State Department (or possibly, President Obama himself) will decide whether TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline is in the American national…
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Cutting taxes gives us an unjust society, not a free lunch
Ironically, it is in the anti-tax United States that a conversation has erupted on taxes. Warren Buffett and a few other billionaires helped open the…
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Chronic fishery mismanagement Confederation’s dismal failure
It has been called “managed annihilation,” “Confederation’s greatest failure,” “a national embarrassment, a national shame.” The demise of the cod fishery off Newfoundland and Labrador…
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Agitating for Change
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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