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Public awakens to assassination of Medicare, but is it too late? The slow, very public murder of Medicare as a universal, publicly-funded, single-tier health system…

Social, economic, environmental ills all have the same cause After nearly 12 years of editing and writing articles for The CCPA Monitor—about 3,000 of them…

Lessons from the US-Gambling Case Download 187.85 KB15 pages

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Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #3 Download 115.45 KB8 pages

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Monday’s Economic and Fiscal Update is animated more by politics than economics. In the present political circumstances the temptation for…

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—A new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that, contrary to popular belief,…

Alternative Federal Budget 2006: Technical Paper #2 Download 209.13 KB22 pages

On August 14, 2003, a poorly maintained electricity system–like a levee holding back water–failed and drained all the power from 50 million Canadians and Americans.…

Schooling for Democracy: One Size Does Not Fit All It’s all over the papers – young people aren’t voting. It’s the fault of the media…

Will the spread of fascism in the U.S. spill over into Canada? As a communicator, I’ve always been fascinated by the ongoing verbal battle for…

World oil shortage could trigger next major shift in global power My history teacher was an intimidating person. It seemed that there was nothing in…
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