Trade and Investment Research Project Updates

Canada and Ecuador are currently engaged in Free Trade Agreement negotiations slated for completion by 2025, with a clear emphasis on safeguarding Canadian mining investments in Ecuador. However,...
March 21, 2024 | National Office
Thursday, February 15 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 1pm MT / 12pm PT RSVP Online Here for Zoom Login Details In 2023, the U.S. corporation Ruby River Capital launched a massive $20 billion trade challenge...
February 1, 2024 |
On November 22, the CCPA joined Canadian health, human rights, trade justice and labour groups in sending the following letter to Trade Minister Mary Ng and Innovation Minister François-Philippe...
November 22, 2022 | National Office
On November 15, the CCPA joined more than 380 civil society organizations from over 60 countries in calling on governments attending the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to put an end to a system of...
November 22, 2022 | National Office
On September 26, 2022, iAffairs Canada, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Institute of Political Economy, hosted a virtual book launch discussing the...
October 7, 2022 | National Office
On the occasion of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Canada in August 2022, and ahead of the announced ratification of the EU–Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) by the...
August 19, 2022 | National Office
The CCPA's Trade and Investment Research Project is one of hundreds of international civil society groups to endorse the following call to action, which was issued on June 16 following the conclusion...
June 17, 2022 | National Office
April 26, 12–1pm EDT Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOuqpjMuGt3ZnCU5LzOrjsK_bxRn6eF5  The vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, is on the verge of extinction. Scientists...
April 14, 2022 | National Office
Le français suit. Canadian organizations concerned with vaccine equity and the TRIPS waiver negotiations at the World Trade Organization are urging the Canadian government to not accept a compromise...
March 28, 2022 | National Office
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has joined over 130 international civil society organizations in writing a letter to members countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO), urging them...
November 23, 2021 | National Office
Ahead of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization on November 30, civil society leaders from around the world are declaring a WTO effort, supported by Canada, to issue a...
November 19, 2021 | National Office
Can the world agree to trade rules that help, rather than hinder, a fair and democratic transition away from fossil fuels and toward a Global Green New Deal? We can and we must, says a trinational...
November 3, 2021 | National Office
Senior Researcher Stuart Trew writes in The Monitor about the devastating implications of Canadian mining company Eco Oro's successful Canada–Colombia FTA investor–state lawsuit, which undermines...
October 5, 2021 | National Office
September 27, 2021 — Today, 206 major civil society groups—including global union federations, development advocates, women’s groups, consumer organizations, and environmental groups—representing ...
September 27, 2021 | National Office
On June 29, 2021, the CCPA joined over 200 civil society organisations from around the world in signing the following letter the European Commission and EU Member States urging them to engage in text...
June 29, 2021 | National Office