Menu
Public Services & Privatization
Our publications are available to all at no cost. Please support the CCPA and help make important research and ideas available to everyone. Make a donation today.
Why Canada Post workers are on strike
On the morning of November 15, 55,000 postal workers—members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)— walked off the job. It’s the latest in…
Biggest attraction in Toronto? Taylor Swift has a quiet competitor, new report shows
TORONTO—When it comes to attracting fans in Toronto, only one performer comes close to Taylor Swift: the Toronto Public Library.
Time to End Tax Cuts and Invest in Public Services
The cumulative impact of decades of regressive tax cuts has created the severe social, economic, and environmental problems seen daily in Manitoba. Tax cuts are…
Not just a train, and certainly not Mayan
Among the many Indigenous struggles taking place throughout North America, the high-profile resistance to a flagship project of the Mexican government shows how transnational alliances…
New book tracks how neoliberalism gutted Canada’s social services
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible.
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…
Why dentists are not signing up for the Canadian Dental Care Plan
As a dentist, and an open advocate for public dental care, I often speak to other dentists about the issue. Recently, I’ve started hearing a…
Adult Basic Education in Manitoba: “It’s Like, Life Changing!”
What could lead people to say such things as, “I can physically, like on every level, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, feel myself changing and transforming,”…
Cuts to community groups would send wrong message
Previously pubished in the Winnipeg Free Press June 25, 2024
New report sets out bold 10-year plan for integrated public transit throughout BC
UNCEDED SQUAMISH, TSLEIL-WAUTUTH AND MUSEQUEAM TERRITORIES/BURNABY, B.C.—Within the next decade, British Columbia’s local transit systems could be united into an upgraded provincewide public transit network,…
The many consequences of austerity
April 8, 2024 In voting against the 2024-2027 municipal budget, Coun. Russ Wyatt stated that decades of low property taxes have resulted in “self-imposed austerity”,…
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates