News Releases

VANCOUVER - The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing the industry’s serious climate issues, a new Corporate Mapping...
October 18, 2018 | BC Office, Saskatchewan Office
OTTAWA — Alors que le pays fait face à des difficultés importantes et imprévisibles à l’approche d’une nouvelle année d’élection fédérale, le Budget fédéral alternatif (BFA) de 2019, dévoilé aujourd’...
September 19, 2018 | National Office
  OTTAWA—With the country facing significant and unpredictable headwinds going into another federal election year, the 2019 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB)—released today by the Canadian Centre for...
September 19, 2018 | National Office
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Mount Polley mining disaster bears remarkable similarities to a catastrophe at a Brazilian mine the next year and points to the strong possibility of more environmental...
August 28, 2018 | BC Office
TORONTO – Despite their high level of education, credentials, skills, and even experience, 22 per cent of Canadian professionals are in precarious jobs, says a new report from the Canadian Centre for...
August 21, 2018 | National Office, Ontario Office
OTTAWA—Canada’s wealthiest family dynasties are more than 4,400 times richer than the average Canadian family and much more likely to keep that money in the family than they were two decades ago,...
July 31, 2018 | National Office
OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) mourns the devastating loss of feminist researcher and scholar, Kate McInturff. CCPA staff, board and partners remember Kate as a feminist...
July 27, 2018 | National Office
OTTAWA—An estimated 776,000 of non-school-aged children (44%) live in child care deserts in Canada, according to a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. For the...
June 28, 2018 | National Office
OTTAWA – Une nouvelle étude publiée aujourd'hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives révèle qu'environ 776 000 enfants (44 %) qui n’ont pas encore l’âge scolaire vivent dans un désert en...
June 27, 2018 | National Office
The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation is a little-known financial institution, however, its actions are vital to BC’s and Canada’s ability—or inability—to address the climate change...
June 25, 2018 | BC Office
June 25, 2018 (Halifax, NS)----Covering the costs to raise a family in the Maritimes requires two adults to be working full-time earning a living wage of $19 an hour in Halifax, $18.18 in Saint John...
June 25, 2018 | Nova Scotia Office
(Halifax, NS)----Le montant dont une famille de quatre personnes a besoin quand les deux parents travaillent à temps plein- un salaire convenable--est 19 $ par l’heure à Halifax, 18,18 $ à Saint Jean...
June 25, 2018 | Nova Scotia Office
JUNE 20, 2018 (SAINT JOHN, NB)— In order to earn a living wage, a person working a full time, full year job in Saint John would need to be paid $18.18 an hour, according to a new report released...
June 20, 2018 | Nova Scotia Office
VANCOUVER – An unprecedented increase in a special “credit” account set up by the BC government to subsidize the fracking industry should be immediately investigated by the province’s Auditor General...
May 31, 2018 | BC Office
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural gas repeatedly broke rules intended to protect threatened...
May 28, 2018 | BC Office