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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…
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The Buy American Deal: CCPA Analysis
If you’re looking for an alternative perspective on the recent Buy American deal, check out Buy American Basics, a new report from the CCPA’s National…
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