News Releases

Regina — Canada ranks very poorly among peer nations for overall quality measures and rates of access to regulated child care, and Saskatchewan ranks the lowest of all Canadian provinces. A new...
February 1, 2019 | Saskatchewan Office
Halifax—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today that provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) to work in the...
January 30, 2019 | Nova Scotia Office
TORONTO—Cities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area facing growing demands for public services and infrastructure, and a provincial government vowing to cut spending, should turn to a regional...
January 24, 2019 | Ontario Office
OTTAWA—Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs netted 197 times more than the average worker made in 2017, earning the average yearly wage ($50,759) before lunch on Jan. 2, according to a new report from the...
January 2, 2019 | BC Office
OTTAWA — Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), en 2017, les 100 PDG les mieux rémunérés au Canada ont touché 197 fois plus que les travailleurs moyens,...
January 2, 2019 | National Office
VANCOUVER—A new study finds that BC’s news media frequently reinforce the assumption that there is an inevitable trade-off between environmental protection and job creation. Released today by the...
December 19, 2018 | BC Office
TORONTO—Ontario’s labour market shows stubborn patterns of employment and income inequality along racial and gender lines, according to new research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’...
December 11, 2018 | Ontario Office
5 décembre 2018 Ottawa – Un régime national universel d’assurance-médicaments financé par le gouvernement fédéral pourrait permettre aux Canadiens de réaliser des économies nettes pouvant atteindre...
December 5, 2018 | National Office
December 5, 2018 Ottawa — A federally funded universal national pharmacare plan could create large net savings for Canadians, up to $600 per household a year, but just who benefits depends on how the...
December 5, 2018 | National Office
(Coast Salish Territories/ Vancouver) A report released today outlines for the first time what implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples could and should...
November 21, 2018 | BC Office
EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a new Corporate Mapping Project report analyzes how the five companies that dominate the...
November 9, 2018 | BC Office
A note of information - November 7th 2018 Contract U: Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities provides an analysis of the data that 67 Canadian universities provided in response to a...
November 7, 2018 | National Office
OTTAWA – Selon une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives, les universités canadiennes dépendent énormément des enseignants précaires sur les campus....
November 1, 2018 | National Office
New study examines reliance on precarious jobs on university campuses; Ontario, Quebec and B.C. have contract faculty rates above national average. OTTAWA—Canadian universities are relying heavily on...
November 1, 2018 | National Office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOCTOBER 23, 2018 OTTAWA—Many Canadians, including dairy farmers, metalworkers and consumers facing higher drug prices, may come to see saving NAFTA Chapter 19 as a hollow victory...
October 23, 2018 | National Office