National Office Updates

CCPA’s popular book on young workers, unions, and challenging neoliberalism is now available as a digital download for Amazon Kindle and iBooks! From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union...
November 6, 2014 | National Office
A new CCPA study, Narrowing the Gap: The difference public sector wages make, compares the wages of full-time public and private sector workers and finds significant gaps in the wages of women,...
October 28, 2014 | National Office
How is the Mike Brown shooting relevant to Canadian contemporary politics? Why have race and racism become the central issue of the Toronto mayoral race?  The Dirty War, a new book in the Our Schools...
October 15, 2014 | National Office
A new study by the CCPA and West Coast Environmental Law finds that Canadian oil and gas companies could be liable for billions of dollars of damages for their contribution to climate change....
October 8, 2014 | National Office
Armine's latest business column on CBC Radio's Metro Morning asks: are boomers going to bust Canada? New stats on population aging leave no room for doubt: we'll soon be paying more to support our...
September 18, 2014 | National Office
Applications are now being accepted for Next Up: a leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice. This is an amazing, intensive and transformative program the CCPA...
August 11, 2014 | National Office, BC Office
On June 2, 2014, Radio Canada International aired an interview with Scott Sinclair, director of the CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project, on his study (co-authored with Hadrian Mertins-...
June 6, 2014 | National Office
CCPA recently released a series of three publications documenting the critical role unions have played in reducing inequality and enhancing democracy in Canada. These publications also examine the...
April 24, 2014 | National Office
Where is the best and worst place in Canada to be a woman? According to our latest study, Québec City is the best place to be a woman and Edmonton the worst. The study, by Senior Researcher Kate...
April 22, 2014 | National Office
CCPA's latest research innovation is an interactive map that shows you how paying for full-time undergraduate university has changed since 1975, across provinces, and across faculties. It helps you...
April 14, 2014 | National Office
The Spring 2014 issue Our Schools/Our Selves is an opportunity to look at education perhaps more broadly than we normally do — at who is often left out of the education debates even though it impacts...
April 10, 2014 | National Office
On March 5th, the CCPA held its first ever telephone town hall, which enabled us to engage in a live, interactive dialogue with almost 4,000 of our valued supporters from the comfort of their own...
March 11, 2014 | National Office
This past Saturday, March 8th was International Women's Day (IWD)—a day to celebrate the contributions of women and girls to our lives and communities, and a time to highlight the issues facing women...
March 11, 2014 | National Office
On February 28th, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan faced one of the more intimidating challenges of the web, and did a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") session. Redditors dove right in and asked...
March 6, 2014 | National Office
Radio-Canada’s French language investigative program, Enquête, interviewed CCPA's Executive Director Bruce Campbell for a recent episode about last summer’s tragic Lac Mégantic derailment. The...
February 28, 2014 | National Office