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  • Where’s Our Danny Boy?

    Give Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams credit for leading by example and doing what no BC politician in recent years had the guts to do: force the issue on what, exactly, the public deserves by way of public returns from publicly owned resources. Williams’ well publicized decision in December to yank…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    Making Sense of the TPP

    “Making Sense of the TPP,” a public event in Ottawa on April 1, 2016, featured presentations from Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, Scott Sinclair (CCPA), Megan Sali (OpenMedia), Gus Van Harten (Osgoode Hall Law School) and others. The event was organized by the Trade Justice Network and filmed by OpenMedia. Watch the…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral sortirait 1,1 million de personnes de la pauvreté, créerait 520 000 emplois

    OTTAWA — L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral (ABGF) de 2016 dévoilée aujourd’hui par le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA) prévoit un déficit fédéral de 29,2 milliards de dollars en 2016‑2017, compte tenu des mesures du programme libéral. Elle présente aussi un plan directeur démontrant comment le gouvernement pourrait accepter un…

  • Poverty-reduction plan smart economics

    “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will have food for a lifetime.” So goes the saying that has been used to describe the problems with charity (“ handouts”) and to illustrate why there is a need for…

  • Invisible women, concrete barriers

    Refugee women in Nova Scotia Imagine that your child has a broken arm and you have to wait two weeks to seek medical treatment. Imagine giving birth at the IWK and not having access to immediate medical insurance coverage for your baby, who is a Canadian citizen. Imagine being told…

  • Education funding gap hurting students at risk—study

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Ontario’s at-risk students are slipping through the cracks in the $1.2 billion funding gap caused by the province’s education funding formula, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. According to the study, authored by CCPA Research Associate Hugh…

  • Half of Ontario families losing ground: report

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – Ontario is becoming more polarized as the bottom half of Ontario families see their share of the income pie shrinking while the top half takes home even more, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The…

  • Alternative Federal Budget

    Federal surplus evaporating: Think-tank

    Harper plan at odds with Canadian priorities CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — The Harper government is on the brink of exhausting its fiscal surplus on a pre-election spending plan that is at odds with what Canadians want, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Centre…

  • Fast Facts: Building a community of opportunity and hope

    Lord Selkirk Park Recent events in Gilbert Park have cast Winnipeg’s North End public housing complexes in a negative light. An opposition politician has called Gilbert Park a “ghetto” and “crime incubator”. Some poverty ‘experts’, in statements attributed to them by the media, have implied that conditions in public housing…

  • September 2008: The WTO Doha Round Breakdown

    Developing nations are blamed, but they blame the U.S. The World Trade Organization’s meeting in Geneva in July, as it opened, was described by WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy as a “moment of truth” in the negotiations for a new global trade deal. But, after nine days of talks among a…

  • Study busts myths about who benefits from $15 minimum wage

    Ont. boomers as likely to get a raise as teens; retail, food & accommodation workers more likely to work in big box stores than in small businesses CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Ontario’s commitment to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour has more to do with…

  • Growing Gap

    No New Year’s hangover for top CEOs

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO – By 12:13 pm on New Year’s Day, while many Canadians were still nursing a hangover, Canada”s 100 highest paid CEOs had already pocketed what will take minimum wage workers the rest of 2007 to earn. The clock keeps ticking. By 9:46…