National Office Updates
The CCPA has launched a federal election blog to bring you expert analysis on the issues that will—or should—define the election. Making It Count features timely commentary from CCPA staff and...
March 28, 2011 |
National Office Why analyze a budget that was a live option for all of 45 minutes? Budgets reveal government priorities — and this budget could have ramifications for Canadians for many years to come.
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March 24, 2011 |
National Office Budgets are about choices, they reflect a government's values and priorities. With a $250 billion federal budget, the Harper Government could choose to invest in programs like universal child care...
March 23, 2011 |
National Office The CCPA’s leading economists find this year’s federal budget obscures the true cost of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan to balance the books while favouring Harper’s pet projects over Canadians...
March 22, 2011 |
National Office From corporate tax cuts to seniors benefits, everyone on Parliament Hill seems to think they know what should be in the budget. But can you do better?
What if you were finance minister for a day,...
March 21, 2011 |
National Office Despite an increasingly diverse population, a new report co-produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Wellesley Institute on Canada’s racialized income gap shows a colour code...
March 21, 2011 |
National Office The CCPA released its Alternative Federal Budget Tuesday, promoting a federal budget that connects with Canadians' real financial worries.
Watch Alternative Federal Budget Coordinator David...
March 16, 2011 |
National Office The CCPA released the Alternative Federal Budget for 2011 today. This year's AFB presents a comprehensive recovery plan designed to:
get Canadians working in good jobs again;
reduce record-high...
March 15, 2011 |
National Office A new CCPA study finds Canadian military spending is higher now than at any time since the end of the Second World War, thanks to twelve years of budget increases. Canada is the 13th largest military...
March 9, 2011 |
National Office Fun fact: Did you know 69 per cent of the staff at the CCPA are women?
In the past year the CCPA has been proud to publish two major books that focus on women's knowledge and empowerment.
In...
March 8, 2011 |
National Office The CCPA has launched a graphics-based series aimed at highlighting poignant facts and figures distilled from the many reports and studies that we publish every year.
The series is called You Oughta...
March 7, 2011 |
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If the federal government wants to get serious about spending controls, it needs to look critically at its ballooning outsourcing costs. The Shadow Public Service, a new CCPA study, finds that over...
March 3, 2011 |
National Office CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan gives us five strong reasons to say no to more corporate tax cuts in this short video.
February 28, 2011 |
National Office In Canada, regulations adopted by every level of government have historically helped to make this one of the safest, most desirable places to raise a family. But a slow, steady, and quiet erosion of...
February 22, 2011 |
National Office Immigrants are Canada’s ticket to economic growth in the coming years, as the Minister of Immigration and Citizenship rightly stated this week. But CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan lays out the...
February 18, 2011 |
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