News Releases
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 (Vancouver) The BC government's announced plan to increase MSP premiums by 50% is a regressive tax increase, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
"Overall, this increase means that...
February 7, 2002 |
BC Office Ottawa--Despite its billing as a personal security budget, Paul Martin's budget falls far short of meeting the security needs of people, according to Bruce Campbell, Executive Director of the...
December 10, 2001 |
National Office OTTAWA–Le gouvernement fédéral pourrait allouer au moins 10 milliards de dollars par année à de nouvelles dépenses au cours de ses deux prochains exercices financiers, payer les prestations de base...
December 6, 2001 |
National Office OTTAWA--The federal government could allocate at least $10 billion per year to new spending priorities in each of the next two fiscal years, on top of additional monies required for core EI benefits...
December 6, 2001 |
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