News Releases

The Ontario government's operating grants to the province's universities, allowing for inflation and enrolment growth, declined by $348 million, or 17%, between 1995-96 and 2000-01, according to a...
April 29, 2002 | Ontario Office
A report from the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group released today challenges the key assumption underlying the Eves Government's claim that the province is on the brink of another fiscal...
April 22, 2002 | Ontario Office
Winnipeg - Manitobans will lose public services they value if the government does not halt the erosion of its revenue base. The 2002-03 Alternative Provincial Budget, prepared by the Canadian Centre...
April 18, 2002 | Manitoba Office
(Ottawa) A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives sheds some light on the pressing issue of inequality in the global economy. The report, The Global Divide, comes as officials...
April 18, 2002 | National Office, BC Office
HALIFAX -- According to a publication released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) debate about budget options is being limited by myths about Nova Scotia's...
April 4, 2002 | Nova Scotia Office
Winnipeg - The expiry of the Winnipeg Development Agreement on March 31, 2001 threatens to kill Winnipeg's unique twenty-year history of tri-level funding for inner-city revitalization--and with it...
April 3, 2002 | Manitoba Office
OTTAWA--Senior government officials have just returned from a negotiating session in Geneva to expand the reach of the World Trade Organization's services agreement into areas usually considered the...
March 28, 2002 | National Office
(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a study it released today shows BC's Reference Drug Program has been effective at slowing down the growth of prescription drug...
March 27, 2002 | BC Office
OTTAWA--Differing provincial priorities reinforce imbalance in access to quality, publicly accountable higher education, according to an annual report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
March 25, 2002 | National Office
(Vancouver) British Columbians have strikingly different lifestyles and financial priorities because of their strikingly different assets and debts, according to new analysis released today by the...
March 22, 2002 | BC Office
(Vancouver) The BC Task Force on Pay Equity's report to the BC government, tabled in the legislature yesterday, repeats what researchers and women's groups have been saying for years: sex-based wage...
March 8, 2002 | BC Office
(Vancouver) "The government says it is giving us tough medicine for the economy, but this budget plan is more like a poison pill," says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. "This plan means...
February 19, 2002 | BC Office
Winnipeg -- Manitoba's Workers Compensation Act leaves thousands of injured workers without adequate compensation, or with no compensation at all. And the rate-setting policy adopted by the Workers...
February 19, 2002 | Manitoba Office
(Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a "Solutions Budget" today, which it says will restore economic and social security to British Columbians. "The government's...
February 14, 2002 | BC Office
Vancouver--Forty British Columbia economists and political economists from across the province today called on the BC government to rethink its planned spending cuts. In advance of the February 19...
February 7, 2002 | BC Office