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The CCPA’s National Office was established in 1980. Located in Ottawa, it coordinates the CCPA’s national research agenda.
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Living the high life: A record-breaking year for CEO pay in Canada
By 9:23 a.m. on January 2, 2025 Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had made what the average worker will make all year
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Rebuilding the left in Canada
In November, I spoke at a CCPA Manitoba event in Winnipeg, recognizing the contributions of labour, social justice and democratic advocate Errol Black and honouring…
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2025 was Canada’s year of Mark Carney: What have we learned about his economic policy agenda?
A year ago, Mark Carney was just a glimmer in the eye of a Liberal party that was inevitably headed for a horrendous defeat at…
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Buy Canadian Policy: The good, the bad and the ugly
On December 16, the federal government’s Buy Canadian Policy officially came into effect. This is the first step towards fulfilling the Buy Canadian Policy as…
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How’s the BC economy holding up in the face of the Trump trade war?
President Trump’s tariff and trade policies dominated the world’s political discourse through 2025. In a recent article,Stuart Trew and I reviewed the different tariffs and…
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Canada is doing way worse on climate than you think
The following is a re-print of the November 2025 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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The Alberta-Canada MOU is an early Christmas present for the oil and gas industry
A detailed memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal and Alberta governments, released late November, looks like a political game-changer but is most likely an…
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Canada Post is already one of the world’s most cost-effective postal systems
There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of…
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Crunching the numbers on postal banking in Canada
Among the many proposals to transform Canada Post, one stands out: postal banking. It’s a program that could contribute to solving multiple policy problems at…
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Algoma Steel layoffs signal it’s time for Canada to up its game on trade and industrial policy
Algoma Steel’s announcement that it will lay off more than 1,000 workers in Sault Ste Marie is just the latest in a string of bad…
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The “Combatting Hate Act” is part of a wave of anti-protest legislation in Canada
On September 19, amidst a flurry of other new federal legislation, Justice Minister Sean Fraser introduced Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act. The act, according…
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