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CCPA Senior Research Fellow testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade as part of the committee’s study of Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Scott discussed the secrecy surrounding the TPP negotiations and the potential negative impacts of TPP proposals on drug costs and public interest regulation.
Woven Words for Indigenous Education, the latest publication from CCPA's Education Project, brings together the reflections and perspectives of practising professionals in the field of Indigenous education.
A new study, released by the CCPA and Save the Children Canada, finds that 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty.
Based on data from the 2006 census, this study disaggregates child poverty statistics and identifies three tiers of poverty for children in Canada. In particular, it finds that Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children. According to the report, Indigenous children trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every measure of wellbeing: family income, educational attainment, crowding and homelessness, poor water quality, infant mortality, health and suicide.
The stakes are high in the last stages of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) talks, yet there remains a serious lack of public information and debate about what is actually on the table.
Negotiators boast that the CETA is the most ambitious and comprehensive economic treaty ever, pushing trade and investment rules into new territory. The agreement would tie governments’ hands in many areas only loosely related to trade, including patent protection for drugs, local government purchasing, foreign investor rights and financial regulation.
This study finds public funding for postsecondary education is repaid many times over by graduates in the form of higher personal income taxes paid on the income they earn. In addition, it demonstrates the claim that subsidized tuition amounts to an unfair, regressive income transfer from lower-income families to middle- and upper-income families is simply not true.
Most Canadians know the sad story of Canada’s second-hand submarines. Purchased from Britain in 1998 for a suspiciously low price, the four vessels have spent most of the last fifteen years being refitted and repaired.
The Royal Canadian Navy projects that its (second-hand) Victoria-class submarine fleet will reach the end of their life cycle by 2030. A plague of serious mechanical problems suggests an even earlier date. However, the replacement of Canada’s submarines was not included in the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy—this omission raises significant questions concerning the government’s intentions for the future of Canada’s submarine program.
This issue of Our Schools/Our Selves, co-edited with Lyndsay Poaps and Kevin Millsip, represents a departure from our usual format(s). It’s structured as a sort of an “issue within an issue," and is focused—specifically and more generally—on working together across generations for progressive change.