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Nova Scotia municipal elections: Building a fairer city means addressing inequality
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Alternative federal budget 2025
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Budget fédéral alternatif 2025
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2025 Alternative Federal Budget offers election platform ideas for political parties
OTTAWA—As parliament resumes this week and sparks pre-election positioning for Canada’s political parties, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released its annual Alternative…
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With the Liberal-NDP agreement dead, what’s on the agenda for the fall parliamentary session?
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Railway workers’ right to strike compromised by corporate regulatory capture
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Time to reinstate the Manitoba gas tax
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press August 28, 2024
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Does “green trade” have a future?
As the world bears witness to a proliferation of worrying climate news, from record-breaking heat waves to hurricanes to forest fires, it also seems to see a…
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World Court decision on Israel’s occupation takes aim at Canadian trade policy
On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion affirming what Palestinians, legal scholars, and many observers have argued for years—Israel’s…
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Kamala Harris is a breakthrough for representation—but representation is not enough
Moving often means downsizing and making little decisions about what comes with you and what stays. As I was preparing to move from Montreal to…
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Tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles are coming. How high will they be?
It’s almost certain the federal government will soon announce supplementary tariffs on imports of China-made electric vehicles (EVs). There is remarkable agreement among former conservative trade…
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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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