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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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November 2001: Exporting Destruction
Report says EDC is putting people and the environment at risk The Canadian government’s Export Development Corporation (EDC) is assisting eight environmentally and socially disastrous…
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Trade Agreements and Tobacco Control
How WTO Agreements May Stand in the Way of Reducing Tobacco Use Download 106.27 KB
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Public Money–Without Public Accountability
Equity in Education Tax Credit In a long line of market-based reforms to education, the Ontario government is now offering tax incentives for citizens who…
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What Paul Martin should do
Paul Martin and his Liberal colleagues are handicapped by their anti-deficit phobia in dealing with the current economic downturn. A surplus come-hell-or-high-water approach makes sense…
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After September 11th
In the wake of the horrific Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, and the killing of more than 7,000 people, the subsequent “war…
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Global village or global apartheid?
The world after September 11, 2001 For over 15 years I have studied and traveled extensively to Peru, a country besieged by terrorism. When the…
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But It’s Only A Tool
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform This collection pushes the reader to think beyond the mantra “it’s only a tool,” commonly used to neutralize…
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Challenging McWorld
First Edition Today’s youth live, communicate and act in a wired world of corporate logos,symbols and branding. “McWorld” is the symbolic term often…
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October 2001: The Western Heart of Darkness
Mineral-rich Congo ravaged by genocide and Western plunder “I’m interested in land not [black people].” — Cecil Rhodes Rarely has Western savagery been more destructive…
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Our Schools/Our Selves: Fall 2001
DIRT(1) Cheap: Students for sale and the tilting of a scale Abstract This paper illustrates how parents, teachers and school administrators have been quietly and…
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New CIDA Reforms Risk Excluding the Poorest of the Poor
In June 2001, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) released a policy document proposing distinct new terms for development aid. The report, called “Strengthening Aid…
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