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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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Envisioning the Future of Medicare: Romanow Keynote Speech
On Friday June 15th, former Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow gave the keynote address to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ conference on “Envisioning the Future…
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SaskNotes: Lessons from Fukushima
Download 324.38 KB15 pages As of mid-June 2012, only 2 nuclear reactors in all of Japan were operational. The remaining 52 nuclear reactors in the…
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SaskNotes: The Shield or the Sword? The Saskatchewan Labour Legislation Review
Download 431.64 KB5 pages The Saskatchewan government’s recent release of their Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation has raised many legal questions regarding…
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50th Anniversary of Medicare
2013 Commemorative Calendar CCPA’s Saskatchewan Office is proud to introduce our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and…
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Duel of the Saskatchewan Expatriates
Last week, I had the following letter in The Globe and Mail: Oil sands royalties The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers’ most recent Statistical Handbook indicates that, in 2010, this…
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Sask. Manufacturing Hits the Wall
Premier Brad Wall was Tweeting about today’s Statistics Canada report of an uptick in national manufacturing sales in March. It is an odd report for him to…
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Meilinomics II: Income from Within
The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg…
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The Opacity of Tory Transparency
“The time for accountability has arrived.” These were the first words written by Stephen Harper in the Conservatives’ 2006 Election Platform, “Stand Up for Canada.”…
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Can Wildrose remove its thorns?
With the Alberta Tories proving so many pollsters and pundits wrong after their convincing win last night, one might be forgiven for writing off the…
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Meilinomics I: The Little Boats
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes…
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Saskatchewan Budget: Where’s the Intergovernmental Love?
A hallmark of Brad Wall’s premiership has been cosy relations with municipal governments and the two westernmost provincial governments. Since taking office, the Sask. Party…
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What a Wildrose Victory May Mean for Saskatchewan
If recent polling is to be believed, Alberta’s ultra-conservative Wildrose Party looks poised to capture an electoral majority in the upcoming provincial election only a few years…
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