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Working toward a socially and economically just Saskatchewan
The CCPA Saskatchewan office was established in 2002 to help the province address pressing social and economic issues affecting our province.
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Throwing STC Under the Bus
There are several compelling questions raised by government’s recent decision to wind down the Saskatchewan Transportation Company. For the most deeply affected, the questions are…
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Saskatchewan’s cruel and unusual budget
Despite the provincial government’s insistence that its budget cuts would strike a balance among those affected, Wednesday’s budget sure seemed to favour some over others.…
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Who is Buying the Farm?
Farmland Investment Patterns In Saskatchewan, 2003-14 Download 733.39 KB12 pages The question of who should get the right to own farmland in Saskatchewan has been…
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Brad Wall, SaskTel and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Brad Wall has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea for Saskatchewan; privatizing SaskTel. While the suggestion of privatizing Sasktel has been floated by…
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Prairie Update: Doing Austerity in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
In the Fall 2016 Monitor, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)Saskatchewan’s Simon Enoch penned Getting to Know Brad, introducing Canada’s most popular premier – Brad…
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The Futility of Austerity: Lessons for Saskatchewan
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Wall expands private pay clinics despite warning from Feds
The Saskatchewan government’s controversial for-profit MRI plan has now drawn the ire of the federal government. Federal health minister Jane Philpott has written to Provincial…
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SaskNotes: The Futility of Austerity
Lessons for Saskatchewan Download 369.17 KB7 pages The instinct of governments across the political spectrum when faced with economic contraction has been to cut public…
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Unequal partners: Power, profit and the public interest in P3s
Here we are again reviewing the evidence that private business can deliver essential public services and infrastructure at less cost and with better results than…
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Decolonizing the Media
Challenges and Obstacles on the Road to Reconciliation Download 995.9 KB20 pages In light of Media Democracy day on November 19th, the Saskatchewan Office of…
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Whither the Crown Corporation? The Semantics of Privatization
The Saskatchewan government’s recent legislative efforts to define what is – and what is not – “privatization,” has left us all floundering in a game of useless…
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A Response to Saskatchewan’s Climate Change White Paper
Download 1.46 MB20 pages The Saskatchewan government’s recent Climate Change White Paper presents an incomplete analysis of the impact of carbon pricing on Saskatchewan. That…
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